Behind every great team...

IN these final few days before the All-Ireland decider, all the talk is about the players from both teams. Henry, Eoin Kelly, Eoin Larkin, Lar Corbett – these are the stars, these are the guys you pay to see, and the pressure is on them to produce.

From my own experience, however, I would say that the greatest pressure this week is on the respective management teams and on the managers especially – Brian Cody and Liam Sheedy.

Long before they got this far, the biggest challenge facing both Brian and Liam was to choose their own teams, and by that I don’t mean picking their best starting 15 – I mean choosing the guys who would be with them for the next year, and maybe the next few years. Those are critical choices, and yet you won’t know for a while whether you’ve made the right choice or not.