Anthony Daly: Future is irrelevant when you’re scrambling
Tipperary manager Colm Bonnar.
When Colm Bonnar took the Tipperary job last year, a lot of the background noise was framed around Liam Cahill turning the role down and choosing to stay with Waterford. Some of the commentary in the aftermath was unkind to Colm, especially when it was portrayed that he wasn’t even the second or third choice of the board and that he was effectively appointed through a process of elimination.
That was unfair considering the huge experience the man has accumulated as a manager and coach with Tipp, Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, with Ballyhale Shamrocks, along three decades of incredible service with IT Waterford. Tipp may have been Colm’s first marquee job as an inter-county manager but any of the critics who accused Bonner of not being modern enough clearly didn’t examine his CV. Outside of Brian Cody, no other inter-county manager in the Liam MacCarthy Cup can claim to have anything near Colm’s level of experience.
