It’s really good
Seconding the second captains call. The bit about Michael Noonan is hilarious.
Still buzzing the day after
Not sure whether it is bias, whether it was alcohol, or a combination of both, but I felt that Molumby got on a lot of ball yesterday - that he was the primary distributor, and as a consequence so too did Josh Cullen.
I still don't know what happened. In my head that game finished 2-2.
The more often you watch that winner the more you appreciated how badly Parrot wanted it. The distance he covered just to get to where he was and then literally stretching every muscle fibre to get a stud to the ball and score. That's the leadership and pure will to win that's not really coachable. Magic.
It was truely a night to remember, my kids both adults now have never experienced a World cup or even a big win before on the scale of the last two matches, a whole generation of people that just think we are **** at National level.
IF we could some how follow this up by getting through the playoffs it could as Kevin Doyle said on the rte post game podcast stop some kids from picking up a rugby ball and he also mentioned his kids wearing Ronaldo jerseys.
Could this be the start of something big for us with some good kids coming through as well or am i just getting carried away.
Someone pointed out on Twitter about Darragh Maloney forgetting his RTE accent momentarily after the goal and screaming 'THAT'S TROY PARREH!'
Upon reflection, the day after in the cold light of day....there is no cold light of day, its still all warm fuzzy sunshine!!
Big props too to Johnny Kenny who put serious pressure not the Hungarian defender clearing the ball straight back to us.
Parrott was only a few yards away too.
Watching the match back and one very frustrating thing is the TV replays of silly things after a goal, like the Marco Rossi celebrating in slow motion. Well after goal was scored.
We missed most of Parrott's effort directly after Hungary's second goal and Szoboslai's chip effort (only know cos Maloney mentioned it) directly after Parrott's second goal.