Matthew Brennan
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first heard Jan 2026
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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.
And that is only natural unless it's in a camp like this, if we do have one going forward.
I don't think it's a bad thing, but I...
I wouldn't have any issue with it being flagged as a kind of a warning thing to be like, look, a lot of these guys won't be in squads again.
But I think the main thing about it is it's good for a lot of these players, particularly of a nature who are in the middle.
You know, like your guys who are, like your Corey and Dabas, like these type of players who are kind of paved the path of their own and Dabas didn't really play underage, had one cap I think under Stephen Kenny or was called into one camp at a young level.
And
Guys like him, it's for them to be recognised for what they're doing and know that they're doing something right and it can give these guys a bit of a G up and a sense of purpose that maybe they wouldn't have otherwise because if he's not being recognised as someone who's playing in an elite league and is doing well, I'm using him as an example, there's other ones in the team of course, it's also good from a League of Ireland level as well.
I'm not sure like you know there's accusations that he's ticking boxes here he's just keeping people happy people pleasing trophy win and you know that might keep them quiet for a little bit you know that seems to be a bit of a rhetoric but look I wouldn't buy into that at all I think if there's a pathway there for players to be involved in the Ireland set up it's a great thing for League of Ireland too because the likes of Keane Levy is going to go for a few more quid now if he does want to leave St.
Pat's which of course is a good thing you know an international cap adds a few quid to your bonus or to your transfer so
But that's the thing as well in that we've had a lot of camps where we've had a lot of injuries and sometimes we've been drafting guys in that Hamer hasn't had a chance to have a proper look at as far as up close and personal in training and these guys are coming in cold.
And you know they're not going to be thrown in at the deep end to try and contribute to any great degree.
Whereas now Hamer has had, albeit not the greatest look of all time at these players, not for the longest period, but they are now...
people that maybe not he can call upon and trust but call upon and think okay at least I know to some degree what I'm going to be getting here and that could be valuable as far as you know the qualification campaigns go one thing I would flag as well probably work getting into at some other point not now maybe at a time where maybe there's less going on in the world of Irish football but
Look, maybe it's just having an off day.
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