It's safe to say that Scotland didn’t take their Dublin defeat well during the summer - and John Egan knows it.
Their 3-0 drubbing in June was salt poured into a gaping wound having just seen their World Cup hopes dashed by Ukraine at the playoff stage.
Pitching up to face an Irish team smarting from back-to-back defeats to Armenia and Ukraine was the last thing that dejected players with the beach on their minds wanted.
