Mike Quirke: Eamonn Fitzmaurice the antithesis of an ATM coach

As this football season trundles along and the landscape of remaining counties is close to what we all expected six months ago, one thing is becoming abundantly clear to me – some of our inter-county managers and coaches talk a great game, but some are complete spoofers.

Now, we know the ‘spoofer’ is far from an endangered species at club level. In fact, club football is dealing with an infestation of guys coming in and taking considerable amounts of cash, flying by the seat of the pants and living off a few decent results.

I call them the ‘ATM coaches’ — people who treat clubs like cash dispensers but put very little quality back in by way of individual player or team improvements.