Ben Symes

And I think this is the perfect opportunity.

Get the green shirt on you again.

There's no pressure on you.

You're going out to play a game where expectations are low.

The manager's looking to see, are you capable of getting back into my squad again?

Like these type of squads have the capability to change a player's career in a green shirt.

Players who were on the periphery, you know, weren't getting called up to squads at all.

Players who were getting called up to squads and weren't getting minutes have a chance to grab a game by the scruff of the neck and grab a camp by the scruff of the neck off the field again.

and show that you can be a leader and that you're too important to drop because that's one thing that we know with James Coleman and John Egan Hamer loves having players in the squad who are natural born leaders

And this is a chance for players.

I don't know if Tom Cannon is that natural born leader, but he can lead on the pitch.

And this is the chance for Tom Cannon to stake down that claim for both international football, but also improve his prospects of club football because he's going to have a, you know, Sheffield United are a club that are realistically are going to have a three to five year plan of getting back to the Premier League.

There's no reason why he can't be at the forefront of that.

For me, Ireland, we know now that Ireland are going to play with three players across the front line.

And Ogbeni has shown how important to kind of have an explosive attacker who's just willing to run and run and run all day.

And for these kind of forwards, yeah, to go into a squad like this and almost know that you have the chance here.

Basically, you're going to be playing alongside...

one of the guaranteed front three for Ireland, which you'd always like Benny.

The other two who recently have been Finnazaz and Troy Parrott aren't going to be there.

So you have the chance basically to work alongside someone who's directly in that front three and try and stake your place to make a squad to probably come off the bench, let's be realistic.