Coaching session with a twist

We all make mistakes.

These things can actually be the making of you as a manager. It is an educational thing and it’s your ability to learn from these things that is so important. I would say that early in my career, we were ill-prepared for a Galway hurling team who beat us in Croke Park in 2001 and I certainly felt culpable for it. I would say it definitely made me a better manager.

Think about it. The likelihood is that every time you have heard Alex Ferguson or Ian McGeechan open their mouth, it is invariably whilst speaking to a reporter before or after some match of undoubted importance. They are speaking not because they want to but because they have to. What they “reveal” is at best of limited importance, sometimes next to useless, their minds locked up and the key thrown away while the cameras roll.