Gary Breen
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Podcast Appearances
I don't know what it is.
I'm just not sure.
No, I...
I've said this to you before so many times, Dan, about in-game management and how important it is and that separates the top managers.
I generally didn't feel there was an issue with the substitutions.
I didn't feel like they were too late, too early.
And I was watching the game thinking, this is so comfortable.
My only kind of thought was, if we give a couple of set pieces away, because even when you think about that corner, a basic corner comes into the box and Queeving punches it.
He mispunches it over his bar.
It's a clean punch.
And you're thinking, that's what it kind of creates.
And
I felt, looking at the team, it looked so assured.
The only kind of thing you do worry about is that the magnitude of the game would create anxiety.
I didn't think it did.
And I did the finishing line in sight create a little bit of angst where you're thinking, we're nearly there.
We're nearly there.
And maybe that did happen.
In terms of Jaime, in terms of what he did, what I will say, Joe and Dan, is that perhaps the fact that he is a foreign coach, he doesn't get...
like emotionally bogged down with it and how much it means to Ireland that he has that clarity of thought because the reality is we think we should be at every World Cup.