Matthew Brennan

That hasn't happened.

There's no precedent set that Spain have said we're not going to play this game against Israel.

We're not going to host this country in our back garden.

No.

Spain haven't done that.

So there's not an issue there really until it happens.

Yeah.

No, no, of course.

I know, I know.

I'm not sorry.

he would have to go away and consult his family whether it was right to play this game or not and they're just the players who have been put in front of us to speak out we haven't heard from others as well it's the most unsurprising thing ever isn't it that it's gotten to this point where you know you decide if you don't want to play the game you don't like Israel you don't turn up and that's just always the way this was going to go just the lack of backbone and leadership from the powers that be that it's you know each hierarchy is all just kind of dropped down the whole way down and now it's on the players and coach and stuff like

a year or two years moving off that situation it's going to have to be how it is again players are going to have to boycott it the government were fairly outspoken when we decided not to enter the Eurovision yeah don't worry about that now though this is clearly a much smaller thing that nobody cares about I say sarcastically

and then I checked my phone it was NBA timings where it doesn't actually kick off until 10 minutes after are we going to is this an unwritten thing we're going to face the world cup now and I'm waiting up until 5 o'clock in the morning to watch Austria and Australia playing 5 o'clock in the morning against Turkey yeah there's an Austria-Jordan fight I saw one of the fights I was thinking tipping in for the breakfast shift 5 o'clock in the morning they might catch the second half but no hopefully they're not doing that because that would be a right mess a right mess

Bad miss, yeah, but these things happen.

Yeah, Keith Trace is making that point on Sunday, actually, it was, on off the wall, obviously, about the fact that he would just be, he was more just flagging, I suppose, something that he had experienced in his own career, really, where

was maybe not giving stuff too soon or stuff handed to him on a plate but kind of had achieved some things at a young age and thought okay I've made it I'm the man now I can do it's sweet everything will work out for me and obviously Keith's career went and went the way it did

As far as the caps being handed out too early, I think it's a double-edged sword, really, in that it's great to see an influx of new players playing for Ireland and players that, for guys like us who kind of live and breathe Irish football and you see these players and you talk about them a lot, but they're never people who you think are...

Not that they're never people, but they're not of an ilk where you think the majority of them will end up getting caps.

And there are players there.

There, of course, are players there who will never get another cap again.