Gary Breen

We can't be kind of like, it can't be a fact-finding mission like it was when Heimer first came in in the last Nations League campaign.

He knows who his players are.

He said initially to us, his remit was finding 15 or so players he could regularly rely on.

So I understood in terms of that, playing the same kind of team.

But I did think like, you know, these lads could have stepped away from it, maybe give an opportunity to others.

That's fine.

The game kicks off, Joe, and I'm thinking, okay, you know, I can understand, like, the hurt of the players still trying to get rid of that type of pain.

And we saw a perfect example of it when Seamus berated them, didn't he?

I'm not sure what minute it was, quite early on when they weren't showing for a throw-in and he was literally expletively saying, come on, liven up, lads, we're walking.

Now, they were shot.

But the thing that really stuck to me was on about seven minutes, seven minutes 30, Seamus went bursting forwards.

And he kind of, the ball broke to him and then he kind of bounced into central midfield.

He was five or six yards away then, but doing a counter press, going after their midfielder who hadn't secured the ball, he's bouncing in around him.

He literally turned his back on him and sprinted back into a back five.

And when he did that, he had seven men behind the ball already in place.

And yet he didn't.

He went against all his natural instincts when you think of how good he is at harassing people.

He didn't go that six yards to put the pressure on.

And I'm thinking, this isn't his decision.

This is by instruction.