Ben Symes

And it's something that Ireland have been very slow to do.

I'm really excited to see him in the squad, as Hamer said, and I agree, he's physically ready.

We've seen that from his performances at underage football, that he excels and that's where he really shines.

I'm really excited to see how he transitions that to senior football.

And it's in a game and at a level where there's no pressure on him.

There's no expectation to perform.

It's really the perfect scenario to bring these players through and I'm glad that Hamer has capitalised on it.

I maybe would have liked to have seen a couple more.

I probably would have liked to have seen Victor Ozinvuna in there.

I just think, and Bradley alluded to it last night, we don't have players who can do what Ozinvuna can do in the middle of the park where he gets the ball and he bounces off a player and he turns and he moves forward and he plays that pass.

Ireland don't have too many players like that and Ozinvuna is someone who,

I think is going to be in Ireland senior squads for a long, long time.

And I don't see the harm in getting him involved in it at all.

I'm delighted that he was there.

Maybe one or two more.

I think Rory Finneran was someone who was a shout last week as well.

Like, you know, maybe... I'm looking at that in my field and I expected more than four midfielders in the squad.

That was something that kind of shocked me.

So to throw us in Vuna...

and Finneran in there there's no harm in doing it there's only 21 players in the squad as Hamer said we will call up definitely one more maybe two more if Bacon drops out so there is still time to bring these players through I'd just like to see more hopefully this is the start of a trend where the players get faster through to the senior team