Life out on loan is a reality that a large number of footballers will experience throughout their careers.
Whether it's to aid their development or a means of getting them out the door of a parent club due to being surplus to requirements, it's one of the more common means of greasing the transfer window wheels.
For Corry, who retired at Shamrock Rovers in 2017, his loans took place during his time at Sheffield Wednesday, when he made temporary moves to Tranmere Rovers and Carlisle United in 2013 and 2015 respectively.
"They're very difficult first and foremost to step into a dressing room where you're not too familiar in the middle of a season and you're trying to hit the ground running," said the former UCD and Republic of Ireland underage international.
"My loan spells came off the back of not featuring for Sheffield Wednesday, so you're trying to find a bit of form and a bit of fitness in between.
"I think from my perspective, because of the nature of the Championship, of going Tuesday-Saturday, Tuesday-Saturday, I probably didn't expect to have too much communication from my parent club to be checking in about how I'm getting on or what my performances were like.
"There was a team there that looked after players who were out on loan and you would have an element of communication with them, and there would be communication between them and the loan club and the parent club.
"You kind of just get on with it. I wanted to play games, I wanted to try and get back into form and to get out on the pitch and get 90 minutes in the bank because you can't really replicate that when you're not featuring with Sheffield Wednesday.
"So yeah, they're tricky situations. The loans tend to come about because you're not playing but ideally you would want the club checking in to see how you're getting on.
"But I'm very aware that that doesn't always happen and when things aren't going well and you're on a longer-term deal, and Richie will be able to tell you, football clubs do whatever they have to to get you out of the building.
"And they don't care who you are. If you're surplus to requirements, they'll try and get you out and it can be a difficult environment and it's very different to, say, the business environment that I work in today. (Football is) very cut-throat and it can be ruthless at times."
Fellow midfielder Towell, who intends to continue his playing career after his departure from Shamrock Rovers in November, experienced three loan moves in his career.
The first of those came while he was on the books at Celtic and saw him spend the 2011-12 season at Hibernian which gave him a real insight into the similarities and contrasts in the on and off-field ferocity between the Old Firm and Edinburgh derbies, which he went into detail about on the podcast.
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But later on after joining Brighton following a trophy-laden spell at Stephen Kenny's Dundalk, the Inchicore native found himself on loan at Rotherham United - not once but in two consecutive seasons.
"As Paul said, when you're not playing, you want to go out on loan and you want to try and get that 90 minutes in the bank," said Towell.
"What I was trying to do was build a career for myself in England. I had obviously went over to Brighton and we had got promoted to the Premier League then and we started signing lads for 20 and 30 million (pounds), so I was realistic.
"I could see the writing on the wall so I needed to get out on loan and one thing I can say from my loan experiences, I had a player liaison officer that was always in contact with me.
"So after my games, he would ring me and (ask), 'How did you get on? I watched your (match), you need to do this better, you were brilliant on this, you were brilliant on that', and he would kind of go through my game with me.
"So my experience of going out on loan was amazing. I went to Rotherham who were in League One and we ended up going and playing in Wembley and we got promoted to the Championship and I was in constant dialogue with Brighton at all stages.
"And then I went back for pre-season, did another whole pre-season with them and again, I could see they were signing more players. It was going up to 30 or 40 million (pounds) so I could see that I needed to get back out on loan and after completing a full season in League One, I felt I could make the step up to the Championship and again I went on loan to Rotherham and again I had nothing but support from Brighton & Hove Albion.
"You can see where that club has gone and why it's gone there. It's because the people in the background and how they treat their players - not just the starting XI or the star players but they treat everyone from the top right down to the bottom the exact same and that's what's needed in football.
"As Paul said, football is a really cut-throat business and it's actually a horrible part of the game because you see sometimes when football players are digging their heels in and they want to get a move away and the fans are thinking, 'What's going on here, why's he doing this?' But on the flipside of that, if you're not performing or you get injured, you're out the door and that's it."
