Walters hopes Lansdowne roar will help lift the gloom

There’s no better man to lift the gloom in a room than Jon Walters.

Faced with a series of questions yesterday still freighted with the deadweight of a dismal night in Tbilisi, Walters conjured up images of glory days in Dublin to lift the collective heart ahead of tonight’s imposing challenge at the Aviva.

Which is all well and good but now, of course, Walters and his colleagues have to take that spirit onto the pitch and do the real talking against Serbia.