Dan McDonnell
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We're going to score 20 goals every international window.
It's first contacts, set pieces, hard to beat in effect is what he's going after.
What I'm doing.
Yeah, the thing is, though, like...
He's done a great job, you know, in many ways, like to turn that campaign around last year was absolutely extraordinary.
He's not working with like a gazillion technicians in there who can keep the ball and play in certain style of football.
We saw Stephen Kenny give that a go.
You know, it was one of the reasons people were cautiously very optimistic about Kenny.
You know, it's like we haven't we haven't talked this way about trying to play football this way.
And maybe this is modern football and let's give it a go.
And we were convinced.
You know, we became the worst thing an Irish team should ever be, which is easy to beat.
It just did not work.
So I have to say, looking on, I'll go to the theatre for my entertainment now.
I'm perfectly happy, perfectly happy, not least given what he did against the bigger sides, with Hamer saying, we're going to be tough to beat.
We'll be tough to beat in these metrics.
And against sides our own level at times and maybe even below our level, it won't be pretty.
Because instinctively you'll feel, God, we should go out and beat North Macedonia 1-2-3-0 at home.
Those nights could be a bit turgid.
But equally, against the bigger, slightly better teams, we'll be kind of well set, well drilled, know what we're about.