To curve or to swerve — that is the question.

Stephen Rochford will replace Joe Brolly on RTÉ’s live panel for this Saturday’s All-Ireland SFC replay.

Despite Declan Bonner’s ratification as Donegal manager for 2020, his head coach Stephen Rochford is believed to be a live candidate to replace Kevin Walsh as Galway senior football manager.

In the last 30-odd years, four All-Ireland senior football finals have gone to a replay — the deciders of 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2016.

Familiarity breeds contempt. Really? Does extensive knowledge of someone lead to a loss of respect for them? Not this weekend.

A year after stepping away as Mayo selector, Tony McEntee is in the frame for a return to inter-county management with Monaghan.

Jack O’Connor is the front-runner to replace Cian O’Neill as Kildare senior football manager.

Two key members of past Mayo football management teams have painted a revealing portrait of a ‘phenomenal’ group of men whose crucial attributes are their ordinariness and thirst for information.

The tepid showing of Jim Gavin’s second string in Sunday’s Super 8 win over Tyrone has ‘demystified Dublin’, says former Armagh star Tony McEntee.

For their week-long residency in Perth’s Duxton Hotel November two years ago, the Ireland International Rules team had their own recreational area in the lower ground floor.

Former Mayo selector Tony McEntee insists tomorrow’s Super 8 decider is not personal for Stephen Rochford - but claims Donegal are in difficulty going to Castlebar.

MacHale Park provides few home comforts for Mayo in competitive football, as the accompanying statistics establish.

You could cut the tension with a knife. Everyone was on edge wondering how would the fun-loving, stone-mad GAA fan handle the windswept conditions in Portrush.

Friends Buckley and Rochford must pit their wits against each other, writes Christy O’Connor.

Here’s John Fogarty’s low-down on the final eight for the Sam Maguire Cup.

It sure wasn’t the most fruitful weekend for anyone looking for chinks in Dublin’s drive for five.

Around 45 minutes from throw-in time, with the sense of anticipation building in Kingspan Breffni Park ahead of Donegal’s semi-final win over Tyrone, a familiar figure was calmly stepping out distances between the cones he was setting down and the poles he was plopping in.

Ryan McHugh doesn’t remember much about his father Martin leading Cavan to an Ulster title, but he says his family will always have a special bond with the county.

"Growing up, football was everything to me but that’s kind of fading away a bit now."

Three of Mayo’s previous management team have now linked up with rivals of the recently-crowned Division 1 champions.

17 days ago, Donie Buckley turned the car and headed north from Ennis. Like he had done for the five previous years.

When the time comes for the movie to be made about Mayo football, the first words you will see with the opening credits will read “Loosely based on actual events”, as the reality of the last 30 years has been far too bizarre and nonsensical to properly fit a credible narrative.

In only slightly different circumstances, Stephen Rochford would be travelling up to Croke Park this Sunday with Mayo, not on Saturday afternoon with Donegal.

Stephen Rochford’s pathway from Mayo to Donegal wasn’t exactly straightforward.

When Mayo last won their opening three rounds of the league, the year was 2006, Mickey Moran and the late John Morrison were in charge of the westerners and Aidan O’Shea was only 15 years of age.

Leading inter-county football managers run the risk of losing sideline privileges for several games should they continue the habit of keeping their actual starting teams for Allianz League fixtures under wraps until the 11th hour.

Mickey Graham’s busy end to 2018 finished with a win in his first day at the office as Cavan manager, Conor Madden’s point deep into injury-time snatching a 0-13 to 1-9 McKenna Cup victory over Down.

When the Mayo squad broke up after their Championship defeat to Kildare last June, many of the players capitalised on the early summer exit to travel abroad.

Jim McGuinness, the last manager to take down Dublin in the Championship, reckons it will take “something exceptional” to prevent the All-Ireland title-holders from completing the five in a row.

A bleed on the brain and two concussions in the space of seven months convinced Ryan McHugh to take a complete break from football.

Former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford is expected to join Donegal as Declan Bonner’s new coach and selector.

Kerry county board chairman Tim Murphy has defended the length of time taken by his selection committee to appoint the new Kerry senior football management team.

Roscommon, the only senior football team yet to confirm a manager for 2019, are hoping to recruit a successor to Kevin McStay from outside the county.

Mayo GAA club delegates rubberstamped James Horan’s return as manager of the county’s senior football team last night.

James Horan is confident previous differences with the Mayo county board won’t be an issue as he seeks a second stint as senior football manager.

James Horan's return to the Mayo senior footballers appears a step closer.

All-Ireland U21 winning manager Liam Cahill is now in pole position to take charge of the Tipperary senior hurlers.

Jim McGuinness will not be the next Mayo football manager, with the 2012 All-Ireland winning Donegal boss ruling himself out of the running to succeed Stephen Rochford.

The same week Stephen Rochford embarked on his first of three underwhelming Connacht championship campaigns with a visit to Ruislip, another manager familiar with some football grounds in London as well as working with top players for a support base craving silverware brought out a book called Quiet Leadership.

A lack of support from the Mayo executive from the All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Kildare to recent days compelled Stephen Rochford to step down as senior football manager yesterday.

Stephen Rochford’s acrimonious departure from Mayo has been handled similarly to the last heave against the management team three years ago: Badly.

He's in the process of recruiting replacements for three of his management team.

Moran played 13 seasons for Mayo and in five All-Ireland finals, through the ups and downs of Mayo's luckless pursuit for Sam Maguire.