IT will be a fantastic experience for Corry Evans and Adam Henley to play at Euro 2016.

I had the pleasure of playing at European Championships and a World Cup and my advice to both would be enjoy it and absorb everything because it is something that will live with you forever.

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The best teams in Europe will be in France next summer and it will be a great experience for the Blackburn duo.

I went to Euro 92 with Scotland and came off the bench until I started the last game against Russia – and that was the only game we won. It was absolutely brilliant.

But Euro 96 was the opposite. I played against Holland in the first game but I didn’t play in any of the games after that. That was disappointing but being there, in England at that time, was fantastic.

I had a better time at the 1998 World Cup. I started all three games, and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, but it was just disappointing I could not get on the scoresheet because I was the top scorer with six goals going to the World Cup.

When you have got a big tournament coming up at the end of the season you know your club form has to be as good as – and that will only benefit Blackburn because Corry and Adam will want to be on top of their game.

But as a player the worst part of it is you are always thinking in the back of your head, ‘I can’t afford to get injured’.

But you can’t let it affect you. You’ve just got to go out there and play.

Unfortunately before I went to the World Cup I was one of four players with hernia injuries.

I managed to get through the World Cup with a double hernia. Not many people knew that.

It was very difficult because I wasn’t training at Blackburn but I had to train when I was away with Scotland. It was a nightmare as it hindered me.

But that was how determined I was to play.

It sounded something similar with Jordan Rhodes last week. I’d heard he took a knock so I wasn’t surprised he did not play in the Poland game.

But when he pulled out of the Andorra game I was surprised because that would have been a great opportunity for him to hit the international scene and, against a lower nation, get a load of chances.

But hopefully he’ll be fit for MK Dons on Saturday because, when he’s in the form he’s in, you cannot afford to miss him.

Jordan should have taken a great deal from watching Poland’s Robert Lewandowski up close – and it’s certainly an experience Grant Hanley will never forget.

I thought Grant did all right against a striker who I rate as the best in the world at the moment when it comes to finishing.

Grant will have learned a hell of a lot.