Matthew Brennan
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1,606 appearances
26 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 22 Sep
Matthew Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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observation or an active learning from what he does that actually provide to a group that maybe certain members of the squad might be able to bring forward if he does go.
From just a couple of things on that, as far as the reception goes, when he was leaving, it was unbelievable.
It was one of those things that the crowd actually got a bit of a lift towards the team after he went off because of the reception he got going.
I don't think that'll be his last game.
Whether he stays on for the Euros or not is another kind of
Another question, it's a different thing.
I think there's a world where we've been playing Qatar, I think, in May in Dublin.
I can see that being a send-off for him if he is going to retire.
But I think a mark of the man, really, when he was leaving the pitch, he didn't want to take in any of the... Not want to take in, but he didn't make a point of...
wandering around taking his time coming off he ran off he gave James Abankwa a hug the man who was coming on to make his Ireland debut and let the moment be his as far as him as a footballer I think I made this point on breakfast this morning he he the fact that his um
the character and the the person that he is overshadows the quality of footballer that he's been over the last 10 years is actually more um kind of more of an addition to or adds more weight i suppose to to how big of a character he is and how good of a person he is because his football ability is is next to none really i mean for the guts of five or six years there he was playing for a decent premier league team as part of
kind of an era defining fullback pairing with himself and Leighton Baines in that Everton system so yeah what a player what a man and hopefully it's not the last we see of him.
Yeah, it's a difficult one.
I think the way Hamer speaks about him in such a high regard, that would not be surprising in any way, shape or form.
But what that actually looks like, I'm not sure.
I don't know, is there much value in...
him just hanging around the place you know when he's not going to have any influence in a playing capacity i do think that plays into kind of the the buy-in he get he would get i imagine in the dressing room from the players and that this guy is this age he's still going out he's still performing he's still doing it for the badge and he's still playing better than a lot of us have done over the last couple of years so i think if you take that bit away not that not that people would hold him
in any less of a regard, but I just think maybe it might have less of an effect on the dressing room.
So whether he goes straight in as a coach or not, I'm not sure.
Look, it wouldn't be the ruination of the Republic of Ireland National Team if he did, but I'd like to know the ins and outs of how that might look.
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