Colin Sheridan: Want to manage my county? Show me what you’ve got
ALL-STAR CAST: Kevin McStay has applied for the vacant Mayo manager's job. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile
I don’t watch Bridgerton. More of a Jane Austen man. For those unfamiliar or uninterested in her work, her plots typically weigh heavily on women's traditional dependence on marriage to secure social standing and economic security. The dowry is everything. Aware as I am that Bridgerton is a contemporary, juiced up version of Austen, I couldn't help think this week that Netflix, RTÉ or HBO weren’t missing a trick by not dramatizing the GAA offseason and it’s sexiest sub-plot - the manager search and it’s dowry sideshow.
Want to manage my county? Show me what you’ve got. Not in cattle or land in Berkshire or property in Pimlico. No, show me your defensive coordinator. Your video analyst. Your performance consultant. Your stylist, and more than all those things, show me the big-name “other guy” you probably don’t want on your ticket, but who you need to woo the guardians of the team you so desperately want to manage. The guardians of course are the county board, sitting pretty in pumped-up petticoats, egos swelled to the point of bursting by all the attention.
