Galway stars happy to play the McIntyre way

PICTURE the scene. A group of hopeful hurlers are huddled in the dressingroom awaiting their new manager. There are plenty of nerves as they await to hear what the boss man says.

He speaks authoritatively, as you’d expect. And he asks questions too. Such as what is your favourite position?

That is a query usually put to Under-8s with limitless dreams, not senior inter-county players who have pretty similar ambitions but are also burdened by the weight of history and repeated failure.