Castlebar Mitchels star Barry Moran recalls Mayo players’ stand-off with management

Out with the old and in with the new.

Ushering the past one way and welcoming the future the other wasn’t so easy for Barry Moran and the Castlebar Mitchels cohort on the Mayo panel in the closing months of 2015.

It wasn’t enough that as the players revolted against Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly, they were trying to focus on winning a county title and then a Connacht championship. Holmes had guided Mitchels to the 2013 All-Ireland final. It made things difficult.