Ben Symes
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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.
I think he's 15 for Blackburn.
He's only had four birthdays, which is mental.
Before we talk about him, if Rory Finneran is to play for Ireland this weekend, and we think he will, he'll become the eighth youngest player to win a men's senior cap for Ireland.
How many of the previous seven can you name?
I won't even embarrass myself David's the king of the crappy quiz here so I let him before you go throw out a few I'm not letting you get away with nothing should we maybe come back to it and see if we can get some comments in to see if people can name the seven youngest players people who are on YouTube if you can think of any of the seven
Yeah, I think that's the point really is the biggest one.
I don't...
Can't recall off the top of my head, players like Finneran, what we think Finneran is going to be like from the limited time that we've seen him with the under-17s.
That's what we think it's going to be like.
And I think even if you look at the squad, there is some excellent players in there, like Jason Malumby and Conor Coventry.
Jason Knight, as we know, but maybe a slightly different profile to Finneran.
And that's what we've been looking for in Ireland for it.