‘Super-coach’ idea would benefit GAA, says Micko

MICK O’DWYER has backed GAA presidential candidate Con Hogan’s “super-coach” proposal as a means of addressing under-the-table payments to managers.

The Wicklow boss embarks on a remarkable 35th season as an inter-county manager when his team face his former charges Laois in the opening round of the O’Byrne Cup in Portlaoise this Sunday.

And although the 74-year-old has ruled himself out of ever becoming a “super-coach”, he advocates the idea that Tipperary attempted to follow up on when appointing their senior inter-county manager John Evans as director of football before Croke Park ruled it out of order.