‘There is a feeling within the county we fare better with an outside manager’

It’s a natural watershed. October is county final time all over the country, an obvious point in the calendar for officials, players, and supporters to take a step back andevaluate the year.

Unless they’re playing in the county final, of course, but we’ll come to that. In Waterford, county board chairman Paddy Joe Ryan has had a busy few weeks. When senior hurling managerParaic Fanning stepped down after just a year in the job, Waterford had to replace him.