Replacing coach McLaughlin will prove Ulster’s folly

A school team once failed to control their snorts of laughter when a PE teacher informed them that the secret to success in football could be boiled down to one word: “Hard work.”

In Cavan, the players gathered in a room and decided their manager wasn’t good enough and had to go. Somewhere in Meath, a similar discussion took place between county officials, who reached the same verdict.

Getting rid of men is a shady business. It’s done behind backs and the main perpetrators are never identified.