Robert Craddock

You know, if you're going to gamble on anyone, gamble on youth who have a fearlessness about them, that, you know, they can just jump in and do things that you don't think they can do.

And the one, two, three punch was just too much.

And I love Roy Keane's commentary, you know, the old former man, you know, on a captain hard nut, you know what I mean, seen a million games.

And he said, I've seen this before.

He said one team turned up and by the time they got there, they'd convinced themselves this was going to be a walk in the park, an easy game.

And the other team turned up just expecting nothing.

We're just going to fight like dogs here.

And he said, you could just see it from the first five, ten minutes.

And, you know, it was not just a beautiful result for the Australian game, but a lesson that flows beyond soccer, Gerard, into any team at any time.

Be hungry, be desperate, blood the kids.

Oh, yeah.

I think it multiplies interest by literally a multiple of two almost because you could feel the electric pulse in the coverage that came down within an hour of it.

Like it was dominating every newspaper site in Australia.

I looked at the numbers which our soccer reporters –

aaron smith and and also uh julian linden did for their stories last night and they were through the roof they were state of origin rugby league sort of numbers and and that's very rare for soccer so everyone now is we're all buying in aren't we to the tournament we all can't wait uh to see what happens next and

I know our reporters believe this, but suddenly everything old is new again.

You've got to reintroduce a lot of these Socceroo heroes for people who didn't read that feature in the paper three weeks ago.

Oh, look, it really is.

And suddenly, you know, they've got new heroes.

I mean, you know, Nestor Irencunda, you know, I know he plays for Watford in England, but, you know, everyone.