Dan McDonnell

And actually, when the game was tight, probably at 2-1 in the second half, you could argue it was Ireland's worst spell of the game.

So the results can sort of shape how you remember games, and it can shape this view that, well, they stayed in the game until the last 10 minutes.

And I suppose that's technically true, but they weren't...

massively watertight in that match.

And I kind of just wonder, there is this sense of, if you're talking about a Czechia team that has a degree of vulnerability, that is coming in with a new coach, I'd be worried about hyper-caution.

I take what you're saying, you're taking the Hamer quote and repeating it, and he did say that, but I just suspect that they're going to try and

hit at the checks when they can as well in the first half too.

And I think if you play Ogbeni, if we play the team that you're talking about there, like Ogbeni and Azaz and Troy, there's a degree of movement that has to happen within that.

I don't know.

I feel like I agree with what you're saying, but I kind of wonder will there be a bit more ambition shown in certain ways while the fundamental principle will be, of course, to stay in the game.

I mean, this Suchak thing, though, I'm just trying to figure out, is this a ruse?

You know, I mean, there's two ways of looking at it.

It is just a ruse.

And it's helpful to have it out there because Hamer last week was speaking specifically about, you know, the almost a third man runner like Suchak arriving into the area and how you have to be aware of

So is this sort of a bluff going on?

Or secondly, that it's true and it's been leaked out sort of maliciously from an aggrieved player, which is like the best case scenario for Ireland, that for all the talk about unity, you know, this is a bit like in England, you know, you're hearing the England...

at england camp who's not playing or who's unhappy because i think it's an extraordinary thing to be coming out sort of 24 hours before the game but as aiden says it's widespread here it's everywhere it's sort of respectable publications are standing over on the basis of their info so i mean we shall see so i know you said probably the the five minutes before the game they'll be talking about it and it'll probably be you know an hour before the game when the team sheet comes out they'll probably get a handle on what's been true and what's been fiction that's so interesting

Well, I mean, I walked into the stadium in Budapest, as I said to you after, and said, oh, that's not going to happen.

I looked at the stadium, the arena, I was like, no, no, no.

Ireland don't win here.