Damien Delaney

Flat back five, low block, counter-attack.

And he went, my aim right now is not the long-term goal.

future of Irish football is this qualifying campaign and it's to get to a World Cup and the best way for me to salvage this campaign is to just go to this it'll be interesting to see for Euro 2028 what we decide to do I don't think we'll be this is a long term he wants to try and transition over this and get a

more towards a mid block or flat back four so you know I said I have questions over when Nathan can't play in the back four you see the weekend Brentford were in the flat back five as well away to Leeds so I think when Nathan's asked to play in the back four the spaces get very big for him and he struggles a little bit and I think that's why he came out of the team so it'll just be interesting the future of it but yeah

I don't see anything different for Thursday or Tuesday against Chechnya and Denmark.

It'll be flat back five, it'll be counter-attacking and everybody's comfortable, everybody knows that we're all inside out.

There'll be no long tactical sessions required for that.

Yeah, you have to be careful as well because, you know, Troy isn't, I mean, he's not slow, but he's not a pacey, you know, player like Luis Suarez who's comfortable high up the pitch.

Ball gets spun down the side and he can chase it down and get a throw in or get something out of it.

It has to be quality ball up to him.

It has to be

relatively close to him and he it doesn't have to be perfect like gary was saying there wasn't false complaining if it's not bang on their chest it has to be a reasonable ball up to him and he can't get hold of it but if we're under pressure and we're slashing at clearances and we're just hooking it anywhere and he's just kind of battling in underneath two center backs it's very difficult for any any set forward to deal with that so we do have to be mindful that as good knowledge he is yeah the service up to has to be reasonable

Yeah, I think the back five would be the back five, Manning or Brady.

Manning was introduced at half-time in that Hungary game and made a huge difference.

And there's a couple of other games as well where he came on.

But you've got to think that we were behind in those games.

So you're almost like, OK, we've got nothing to lose here.

And also...

invariably we're playing against 10 men because we've had three red cards in that.

So when you bring someone like Ryan Manning on, you understand that you're going to have a good chunk more of the ball.