Former Republic of Ireland international Stephen Elliott hopes that Martin O’Neill will go for an attacking line-up for Friday’s crucial World Cup qualifier against Moldova.
The Ireland boss has sometimes been accused of being overly-cautious but has hinted he will take risks ahead of the final games.
With new options at the manager's disposal, the Drogheda United striker wants to see two front men in the Ireland team.
"I’d like to see some exciting football played, get the public back on side," Elliott told RTÉ Sport.
"He’s brought the lads in, Scott Hogan and Seánie Maguire. Hopefully there will be at least one of them on the bench or involved. I don’t know whether he will start them because it’s not like something Martin O’Neill would do.
"It would be interesting if he went with two up front. I’d like to see Daryl Murphy up there alongside Shane Long to give him a bit of a dig out.
"To get a body around him where he might get the break of the ball, rather than fighting with defenders all the time which he has been doing for the last couple of games.
"I don’t want to get too excited but we should beat Moldova at home if we don’t beat them at home we don’t deserve anything."
Ireland take on Wales in Cardiff on Monday in what will be a must-win game to be in with a chance of securing a play-off place.
It's a big ask admits the former Sunderland man and one he fears Ireland may not be up to.
He said: "The Wales game will be tough, they will have the game against Georgia played so they will probably have momentum.
"'It feels like a cup final without a guaranteed trophy because if you win your games you still might not have enough points.
"If we are in a position where we have to win that game it will be a great occasion and everyone will be up for it.
"The Welsh players have a better starting XI than us on paper so it’s not going to be easy away in Cardiff. I’d be more hoping than expecting that we win."
Gareth Bale has been ruled out of the game due to injury and although Elliott believes he is a huge loss for Wales, the 33-year-old thinks that it's important not to lose focus on the task in hand.
"I don’t think you can get caught up in him being not there, they have other good players too like Aaron Ramsey, Joe Allen, Hal Robson-Kanu. They got to the semi-finals of Euro 2016 and you don’t get there with just one player."
Ireland will be without the services of Kevin Doyle after he retired from football because of concussion. In the build-up to the final two qualifiers, Roy Keane came under the spotlight for his comments on head injuries.
The assistant manager said that the risk of physical injury is part of any team sport and added that those who were wary about the threat of it to take up chess instead.
His comments were the cause of much debate and Elliott can see the point Keane was making.
"To be fair to Roy, I half understand what he is saying. When you play professional sport, any of the sports he mentioned you have a chance of sustaining injury.
"But I don’t think it will deter a young professional from going on to achieve things because somebody picked up a bad an injury, there would be no sport if that was the case."
