"Hopefully we'll get four weeks in Brazil next summer"

Now, I said right at the outset of the show that we would update you from Kazakhstan, and Stephen has just left the stadium.

Stephen, what was the final score?

Uh, 8-nil to Ireland.

Um, great performance.

Um, they got one shot in at the very last kick of the game into Courtney, and that, that was the only attack they got.

I think it was something like 80% possession, so good day at the office for the girls.

I mean, it was always gonna be a potential banana skin.

But now looking back in hindsight, you know, when you're playing a team seeded 100th in the world, and we're at no ranking, you're 80 above them, like, it's, the score sort of says it for itself.

But look, it's a good run out for them.

We have a big, um, we have a big game double header coming in November, December, um, against Poland or Belgium, so that's what we have to plan for, and hopefully win that and get four weeks in Brazil next summer.

Yeah.

[laughs] I mean, it w- it is, it's a tantalizing prospect there.

That, uh, Belgium-Poland game is on tonight at a quarter past 7:00, I think, and the form guide would suggest-

Yeah

... that, uh, Belgium should win that game.

Uh, they should beat the Poles.

So, I mean, in all likelihood, we're gonna be playing the Belgians at the end of next month or the start of December.

Um, I, I assume if you've traveled all the way-

Yeah

... to Kazakhstan, you're gonna travel for those games as well, Stephen.

Are you?

Yeah, absolutely.

I mean, I've traveled.

I mean, I didn't get to the France in the playoff, but I was at every other game, and I'm just back from Pristina.

I was in Pristina two weeks ago for the men's game as well.