Fitzmaurice shows value of ensuring all systems are go

The best football manager I have ever met believes with every fibre of his being that "the best system wins".

There are plenty who would dispute this theory. But I suspect Eamonn Fitzmaurice might also lean towards this school of thinking.

Fitzmaurice knows from personal experience that talent doesn’t always prevail. Consider the following names: Marc Ó Sé, Tomás Ó Sé, Darragh Ó Sé, Seamus Moynihan, Mike McCarthy, Dara Ó Cinnéide and Colm Cooper. That’s some talent pool. Fitzmaurice played in a Kerry team that included these incredibly gifted players. They still lost the 2002 All-Ireland final to Armagh.