The backroom quantity must deliver quality for GAA managers

Davy Fitzgerald departed the intercounty scene last week, as you probably heard. Some of the Clare players had indicated their lack of confidence in the manager and within days he was gone.

Fitzgerald’s situation has both general application and specific issues.

The former? Once players put their heads above the parapet on a manager’s suitability it’s all over: if nothing else the slew of strikes and putsches and heaves we’ve seen tell us that.