Matthew Brennan

you're now thinking okay I'm in a position here okay I'm getting minutes I'm happy enough I'm progressing well but I need to be in that squad I need to be in there now I don't need to be there in a year's time and that's something I think that I don't know maybe maybe we don't we definitely don't understand what that's like we absolutely don't but it's something I think we need to actually step back from it and go well hang on a minute this is I know your career you want to have a long career fruitful career you want to earn your money you want to be able to be relaxed when you're done after but you get into football for the love of football and it doesn't get any better than

all of these Irish players right now playing for Ireland especially the last international window it just showed that is the biggest thing you'll ever do in your football career yeah absolutely 100% have we got many players left I've got one here that I can just flick through I don't have much to say on it Max O'Leary was in a squad there when we had a couple of friendlies just going to ask about him actually earlier but yeah he's at Bristol City he's not really playing they've got Vitek I think was his first name yeah Vitek and he'd been excellent for Bristol City first half of the season Max O'Leary had been injured

he is back fit he's got a couple of minutes here and there the last couple of weeks but he's not the number one at Bristol City so if he does want to get himself in that Zunu Travers Keighley conversation he's going to have to get a few minutes elsewhere yeah

that's a joke he didn't really get too much of a look in but he was in a squad under Stephen Kenny I think he's gone to Reading working with Liam Richardson again where he did shoot the lights out for Wigan a couple of years ago scoring 25 odd goals which got him into the squad you could have a Ronan Hale Will Keane link up Ronan Hale yeah yeah I like Ronan Hale we need a few goals anyway

I think it's mad that he's gone for Ireland lads.

playing at a decent level when we were kids like you know 14, 15, 16 years of age and he was the standout player at all of those age groups and he might have been at Wolfsburg for a little bit as well but he was actually someone I was keeping an eye on at the very start when I started doing the green scene on Breakfast had him in the list keeping an eye on how he was going on thinking that maybe you know could be one that

Depending on how the qualifying campaign goes, if we have a couple of dead rubbers, which was nearly expected at the start because that's how all our campaigns have gone over the last couple of years, he could be someone that we try to tie down as well.

Maybe Ireland probably is looking like that's where it's going to be for him, but I'd agree with you in raising the profile.

Certainly.

I just have one more player not on my list or anything like that and it's not going to be in an Ireland squad come March but we're in the middle of January.

Is Mason Mealy going to be a Tottenham Hotspur player at the end of January?

He's going to rehab that until the end of the season?

And a quick look ahead to then.

Where does he go then?

We mentioned this last week.

Is it Ligue 1?

ask to represent nation that used to be my most favourite button anyone that had even like they had an Irish dog I was looking for a football manager and I was like right can we get you to play for the national team increase the pool you know there's actually one I mentioned yesterday morning another player Finlay Munro he was at Aston Villa he was out on Swindon got recalled by Aston Villa he's going to be sold in Middlesbrough now I brought this up on the show yesterday just as a kind of Ian Oliver had been talking about him said he's the best full back he'd managed since

Seamus Coleman when Blackwell got promoted and Ger was sitting in this seat and did a bit of digging and found out that Philly Munro was a cousin of Declan Rice.

Yeah, exactly.

We wish him all the best in his endeavours at Middlesbrough if that's where he does end up.