Dan McDonnell

I know you're sitting here twiddling your thumbs.

Gary, if Parrot scores one, two, even three of those chances, you'd kind of say good, solid, pragmatic Hamer performance, no?

Yeah, that was the chilling line you said at the very start of the conversation.

I wrote it down.

This Irish team can't cope with space.

It can't.

And so I just wonder, looking at last night, looking at all the games, I do think Yerevan has burnt itself into Hamer's brain.

Yeah.

burnt it into his brain and I think he sits down when he picks every team with Yerevan in mind almost because it was such an apocalypse you know like they just couldn't defend there was spaces everywhere in behind do you now think this is the template the post Yerevan template almost is safety first back five Seamus back you come don't be risking kind of closing down balls there we're not getting caught it could be a while before yeah sorry

Yeah.

Would you share that, Dan?

Do you think come Euro 2028, this is broadly how we line up, give or take personnel?

in the 87th minute.

It's the glaring aspect in his presentation.

We're going to be best at set pieces and you've just heard Gary detail how we certainly weren't.

And on the TV screen, is he showing clips from games or is he showing facts and figures?

He's showing clips from games.

So what's this first contact thing?

Does he analyse if your first contact is to head the ball to the edge of the area and they whack it in?

No.