Joe Malloy

We've lost all our moral high ground here.

I know.

But, and obviously for Ferguson, I mean, obviously Aaron hasn't been to the World Cup since 2002.

That was my main thought.

Will we get back in his whole playing career?

Yeah.

You know, I'm not saying we're there now, but.

No, it's rough.

Ciarán Whelan said exactly that when Dublin won the All-Ireland 2011 maybe Ferguson will be open about that after his career then after we've talked about this World Cup campaign long into the future but I'd be very torn personally yeah I would obviously they're his buddies and he supports Ireland and he's an Irish man and he'd probably enjoy everything that comes with it but it's painful the whole time I could be there I could be centre stage I could have done this yeah

Jeez, I think it's weird.

They've done this with O'Neill before the Denmark playoff.

Just wait a week.

We could feel completely different about this whole campaign, this whole manager.

Next week, this day, next week.

And that he'd want to leave when he's qualified a team for a World Cup.

Yeah.

maturity just seems like a fairly sound dude yeah he's a grown up like that's the thing about him and I I really like him and I think he's a good manager I think yeah the way he approaches everything in his life and how logical he is in all his press conferences and yeah he's not afraid to row back he's not afraid to make a decision even if he made a different decision earlier

I'm not saying that I would have judged him on the Czechia or Denmark game which is already baked in I'm saying that I don't see the need to give him the contract the week before when he's not forcing the issue and we were finally just talking about injuries and talking to the team and the build up and for once we had a settled feeling in the air around Ireland at the National Camp and then

in the FAI's desire to make it feel even more comfortable and more secure it's actually made it a little more tumultuous like you know because we're suddenly talking about should they have given that yeah when he lost 5-1 after after we give him a new contract and people felt a lot differently about that I just would have waited a week and then given him the contract A lot can change with certainly the playoffs and even with the World Cup things can change if it goes very badly wrong like you do run the risk obviously if the whole thing

Yeah, it's almost that they're trying to show that we're thinking longer than short-term bias.