O’Shea: New rules leading to ‘cult of the manager’
It won’t, new Tipperary manager Eamon O’Shea the latest in a long line of top hurling managers to add his dissenting voice, albeit with a new twist.
“I would be very supportive of Martin Fogarty (Kilkenny selector who recently came out very strongly against the new rule). It’s a strange position to be standing on the line without the support of your selectors. The Maor Foirne (usually a selector) is caught up in the game, he’s in and out of the pitch and he can’t see that well what’s going on — he’s transmitting messages so you’re depending on your third selector. You have to go and find him and they aren’t always as close to you as you’d like. What I find is this rule is leading to the cult of the manager.
