Matthew Brennan

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Yeah, that's actually the exact point I was going to make, in that there is really two sides to this, when there shouldn't really be any...

kind of ambiguity about what should happen and I'm not going to repeat what you've just said there but like it shouldn't get to the point where a decision like this has to be made as far as the game not going ahead or going ahead that should be taken out of the hands of the FAI of course that goes on the government that goes on UEFA that goes on FIFA so

We went through all that sort of stuff last week and all that point still stands.

You are taking away the right to protest by moving it out of the country.

Well, the direct right to protest, of course, if you wanted to go to Hungary or wherever the game may end up being and protest, that kind of is within your rights.

How that goes for you, I don't know.

But it definitely kind of lessens the ability to go and do that for the majority that might want to go and do it.

But then, as Richie Sadler pointed out,

and painted a great picture that night when he pointed around the stadium and said, that's going to be there, he's going to be there, she's going to be there, XYZ player is going to be here, their fans are going to be over here.

You do get rid of that stuff and that sort of is the thing that when it's put into a picture for you and you can go, oh God, that's maybe not what the majority of the people want to see.

It becomes a...

weighing up of which is the priority here.