Getting to the heart of Cork selection conundrum

WHERE DOES it end?

Last Friday we wrote here about Norman Mailer, the famously combative American writer who died last week. Norman was a man who loved an argument, but it’s doubtful whether even he would have enjoyed separating the Cork players and their county board.

First things first: the question of whether or not an inter-county manager should or should not be able to choose his own backroom team answers itself. It beggars belief that any experienced coach would be happy to have colleagues imposed by an outside body, colleagues with whom he would be expected to forge working relationships — and then succeed with them at inter-county level.