Oakley looking the part in backstage role for Offaly

WHEN two experts take polar opposite viewpoints on the same simple subject, what chance the rest of us?

Take the straightforward subject of Ger Oakley playing full-back for Offaly, for example. A massive liability is the gist of what hurling commentator Babs Keating, former Tipperary star and former manager of Tipperary and Offaly, writes in his weekly Sunday column while Oakley is there, Offaly will never win anything.

Absolutely not, says Mike McNamara, Offaly team manager and former Clare All-Ireland-winning trainer.