Was Wednesday night's game with Poland a pointless exercise?

The Newstalk Sport team, minus Ger Gilroy and any great desire to keep up to date with minute by minute breaking news, sat down yesterday afternoon to talk about the value of the Ireland and Poland friendly.

If we play in the same formation and the manager refuses to give players, like Wes Hoolahan, the time to settle into the squad and into a different system is there any real merit in the exercise?

There’s also a bit of talk on Jamie Carragher announcing his retirement, the Ireland versus England Six nations game and the latest in the current craze of doping scandals as we head to Australia for news on the doping controversy that is emerging there.