All aboard the Green Machine’s bandwagon

Alert Ryan Tubridy, engage Ian Dempsey, trouble Ray D’arcy and dispatch Paul Collins from barracks; we may have another bandwagon to mobilise.

The Ireland men’s hockey team are two games from the Olympics.

By tomorrow afternoon, we’ll know if injectors, drag-flicks and side-ins must be eased into our vocabularies as if they were just lying dormant all our lives. By Monday morning, you may be expected to fret over low-percentage short corner routines and ponder grimly whether we can make any impression at all in London if we don’t improve our circle penetration.