Derry boss blasts Bradley for airing dirty linen
Bradley accused the county chiefs of “penny pinching”, claiming “the players know that they’re not going to be looked after like the Dublins and the Corks of this world.”
But a furious Brennan is angered that Bradley made his feelings public.
“There’s an in-house rule in sport that you don’t talk outside the four walls of the dressing room, but Paddy Bradley didn’t observe that,” said Brennan on the Glenullin clubman’s outburst. “Paddy committed the cardinal sin of going to the media and spouting out on whatever grievances he felt he had. We know what happened last year in Donegal with Kevin Cassidy and I fully supported [Donegal manager] Jim McGuinness in the action he took [axing the player from the panel because of his revealing comments in a book].”
“There’s a time and place for speaking your mind, and if Paddy was dissatisfied with some elements of the set-up in the county he should have made his feelings known to the team management, to the officers of the county board or to the other players. As far as I’m concerned there was no lack of funding by the county board and certainly a lot of things that Paddy said were not true.
“I can’t read into Paddy’s brain and I haven’t been talking to him since the Longford game, but it certainly was a huge shock that he made his comments within 12 hours of the final whistle at Pearse Park.”
Regarding his own future, Brennan said: “It’s just over a week since the Longford game and so it’s too early to be making any decision in that regard.
“There are a lot of issues which will have to be considered, and the rest of the management team, myself and the officers of the county board will get down to discussing them in due course.
He added: “Since we came in, we’ve been working on a 12-month basis so officially our time is up.
“But we don’t know yet whether we want to continue, or whether the county board want us to continue for another year.”
