Éamonn Fitzmaurice: Why managers look after No 1 so much...
UNDER PRESSURE: Ex-Kerry boss Eamonn Fitzmaurice in the heat of Championship. 'Hindsight isn’t much of a strategy for an inter-county manager', he says.
In any management position, making decisions based on the information available goes with the territory. Often times there is no good decision, only the least bad decision. In the unforgiving sporting world, results on the pitch dictate whether such reasoning is deemed the right course of action or not.
Managers, in general, are selfish with regard to the team they are in charge of. They look at everything through the prism of their own team and the broader debate or big picture can easily be explained away. Club managers champion the club scene, school managers highlight the importance of this level in their development, college managers talk about the significance and romance of the Sigerson Cup and intercounty managers over-rule everyone else!
