Ben Symes

Gareth, how are you getting on?

All good, Ben?

So, our commentary this Friday comes to you from Louth again.

This time we're going down to Drogheda United.

It's Drogheda United versus Lundauk in the reverse fixture at the Louth derby, which obviously gave us a lot of fracas, I think it's fair to say, in the first fixture.

So, Stephen Doyle will be at that one.

He'll be joined by Vinnie Perth for that.

As always, League of Ireland Late Night will be on Twitter from 10pm, where I'll be alongside Shane Keegan.

And if you want a wrap-up of all the headlines, the LOI wrap-up,

with Ross Flanagan will be in your podcast feed from Saturday morning.

Lads, it's quite usual that we go straight into either a game that happened last weekend or a game that's coming up this Friday.

But I think first, it's fair to say we have to touch on the international call-ups within the league this week.

So we've confirmed news that Pico Lopez is going to be going to the World Cup with Cape Verde.

It looks like Joey Anang, the Pats goalkeeper, is going to be going with Ghana.

And more importantly, potentially,

We have four players included in Hamer, Hal Gribson's squad to face Canada and Qatar at the end of the month.

Sean McRover's Adam Brennan and Ed McGinty are included.

Dawson Devoy from Bohemians is included, as is Conor Brand, the Cork City goalkeeper in the first division.

Ex-League of Ireland star Mason Melia is included, Jadon Uma, obviously formerly of Cork City, and also Alex Murphy, formerly of Galway and Idle as well.

Lads, first of all, this is just brilliant news across the board.