Just how badly do you want to win?

THERE have been murmurs that Sunday represents the Orchard’s last chance saloon. Another failure might split up the team. McGeeney, who will turn 31 in October, dismisses the notion. “Suppose people would want you to believe that, but apart from a few relics like myself, the team is pretty young. Take out myself and Benny, the average age drops considerably. You have to look at each game as if it is your last. Your only opportunity. Because you don’t know what’s round the corner for anybody.

“A lot of our players are married and have young kids, commitment needed for players these days is unbelievable. I have no commitments outside of the football world, so I am fortunate in that respect. I don’t know how anyone else can afford to do it. It’s unfair to ask them to do it. People like Barry O’Hagan, Ger and Benny, they have young families. I don’t know how they do it.”