Finnerty sticks with Tribe

TWO weeks ago, on the day Galway faced Dublin in the Leinster semi-final, three former greats came out with stinging criticism of John McIntyre’s players in a newspaper article.

“You have to ask do they not have the mental toughness or physical ruthlessness, that savage will to win?” said Noel Lane.

Dual All-Ireland-winning captain Conor Hayes (also managed Galway to an All-Ireland final in 2005, as did Lane in 2001) was equally blunt: “I’ll be shot for saying this but some of these lads’ biggest worry with 10 minutes to go seemed to be whose jersey they’d bring home… When backs are to the wall they don’t come out fighting. They remain against the wall. They capitulate too easily.”