We gonna be alright, we were outplayed, over matched and were deficient in talent versus the opposition.
As SH said, this is to evaluate individual players and their level right now and it certainly has done that. Two more games to go, i think the selection headache that was promoted after the last set of qualifiers is not as pronounced as we probably thought.
I think we have a strong group of around 12-15 players. The dozen other players, most of who are on tour are basically squad players and not up to the pace of international football as a collective group. I think if SH can identify 1 or 2 players to insert when it becomes necessary then this tour would be successful. The friendly results will only impact our ability to get more friendlies but if we continue to excel during qualifying then it negates that to some extent.
What makes it clear to me is that one or two strong players does not make a team and even strong players like Hyland and Garcia can look quite ordinary if the rest of team are off the pace. This is a team, there are no stars even in the core group and it takes every piece of the puzzle to work properly.