“I’m never going to talk a young fella out of doing that, it’s his choice,” Moran said last week. “Ciarán is a very straightforward sort of guy, he will do everything for his boy and he’s dead right. “If you go to a concert and you see your favourite band, they’re expressing themselves, they’re enjoying themselves and they’re putting a show out there. I won’t write his script,” Moran replied, no doubt channeling every ounce of his deep reserve of optimism as he spoke. “It’s such an opportunity for these young men to produce what they want to produce on a football field.