Ben Symes

Ireland won 1-0 and everything around COVID is such a blur.

I can't remember if it was just before or just after.

But anyways, it's taken a lot longer than I thought at the time it would for Joe Bagan to end up playing for Ireland.

I'm just delighted, hopefully, fingers crossed, that the knock is okay and he makes a squad.

Teo Ademola is another one who we've heard about for a long time since going over to Crystal Palace and we've probably been waiting and waiting to see him play

I know obviously he played at Bradford, but seeing him play a full season at Championship, it can only be good for him.

And I know obviously the situation at Sheffield Wednesday is not what he would have wanted, but to play Championship football for a full year, at the end of the day, he did play at a higher level than Joe Bagan.

Joe Bagan will be going up to play it next season.

I think both left backs are, this is a brilliant chance for them, both of them.

They're probably going to be competing up against each other, but it's a brilliant chance again to stay clean and say, I want to be that.

Probably for the next couple of years behind Ryan Manning in that left back role, but after that, I want to be Arden's left back for the next 10 years.

Yeah, look, last time I spoke to Hamer at the end of the last camp about leaving the lap and basically the situation hasn't changed.

The offer is out to the lap.

It's up to him whether he wants to take it or not.

They're not really going to go pushing any further.

They've told him where to stand.

If you want to come over, the arms are open, but they're not going to go running after him, which I quite like that.

Yeah.

no no I think they're also two smashing footballers both can play centre half or left back but yeah exactly they would have been in the squad if they could have been it just we might see them at the end of the month we genuinely might it's going to be a very different squad against Canada and Qatar that's inside FIFA regulation windows it's just the fact that this is Edward that you could only call players throughout a season so that's why they're not there

Yeah, I should just obviously have to preface it by saying that because he is not born here and he's no relations to the land, he's a naturalised citizen.