Ben Symes

And we can kind of have those glory couple of years that the Wales had when they got a team who were playing together for a long time and knew each other inside out, on and off the pitch.

of course Ethan Amputee could have played for Ireland his father Kwame born in North Dublin yeah born in Portland Row or something yeah yeah and he would play for the 21s I think he did and he did play he made a couple of caps for Ireland in the 21s before he went over to Arsenal actually played with my uncle before he went over there you go it's a fun fact he was an acquaintance of Wilfred Nancey

close acquaintance with him yeah follow him over to Celtic from America yeah so look as you touched on Rory Fitter in there there was initially nine uncapped players in the squad Joe Bagan who was one of them had to drop out Casey McAteer there was an early drop out and unfortunately I suppose the big one before we get into who's been called up Jade Numa is not going to appear for Ireland on Saturday he was kind of the one that maybe was the star attraction or star talent the name that your eye kind of got drawn to as soon as the squad was named

He's not going to be there.

Benfica have an important game to get into the UEFA Youth League at the weekend.

And Hamer said, look, we knew this was a possibility.

Didn't think it would be likely.

But now it's happened.

Like, how disappointed are we now that we're not going to see Jay Numa in this camp?

That is something that Hamer alluded to the other day, saying he's also excited to see how those players cope with being the leaders.

And of course, look, we could see Jay Newman at the camp at the end of the month against Qatar and Canada.

That is a FIFA window, so the clubs have to release the players if they're called up for that one.

So, look, we could talk so much about the disappointment of who's not there.

One player who has been a late call-up is Rory Finneran.

Before we get into talking about him, here is the man himself speaking today about getting called up to the Irish squad.

That was Rory Finneran speaking to the FAI earlier today in Mercia.

I think they're down at San Pedro is actually where the training camp is.

But look, Rory Finneran is someone who we saw a lot of in the under-17 championship in Qatar last year.

He's someone who we've heard a lot of.

He made his debut very, very young.