Loosen the straitjacket and Ireland can escape to victory against Denmark

Average golfers have a saying: ‘It’s not how, it’s how many’.

If you’re inscribing a four for a par four on your scorecard, it doesn’t really matter how you got it. You might have played rubbish up to the green and then managed to hole a decent putt. But the score is all that counts. And that’s what people mean when they say: ‘It’s not how, it’s how many’.

I see this as an applicable golfing analogy for the way Ireland are playing football at the moment.