Daniel McConnell

I mean, that to me sounds like a real opportunity.

Even if we don't qualify through the front door, he seems to think there's a back door.

And for us to have three games at home with home advantage, I mean, the country will...

And I think I alluded to at the start of the interview.

Look, I mean, again, having been in that room that day, I mean, the hurt around the chaos that went on.

Yeah.

was palpable not only in the like from the politicians but from across the media and then obviously the public at large I mean there was a genuine sense that we've had the wool pulled over our eyes or that you know that things were going on that they shouldn't have been going on and we used to read and again give credit to Mark Ty and Paul Rowan who did brilliant work on this you know they'd like to bring all of this to light it was fantastic and

And you just want to say, can you not put professionals in there?

But I have ringing in my head, and I didn't say it to him, but back to Saipan, those apres match sketches where there were dishevelled lads joking that we're the most organised football association in the entirety of Merion Square.

You know, it just goes that there's a long road for the FAI to go on.

Absolutely.

But I...

There was something quite compelling I thought about him.

Not to give a guy a free pass, but I genuinely thought this is a guy who seems to have a clear air of professionalism around him.

He knows what he wants to do.

It's a decent strategy document here in Fulton.

They have, I think, a fair win now behind the boat between the women's team and the men's team are doing reasonably well at an international.

Huge amount of work at grassroots level.

And again, you see it, you know, there's a body of work there to be done to tap into that volunteerism or the voluntary kind of nature.

There's a huge groundswell of people who are willing to give up their weekends to kind of stand on the side of football pitch.