The innovative backroom teams driving a high-performance culture in the GAA

Management teams now have to try to cope with new challenges that never existed before, but they have found ways to adapt

A tactics board on the sideline. Photo by Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

In the spring of 2002, Armagh manager Joe Kernan and his logistics manager Eamon Mackle discussed the possibility of a warm-weather training camp in La Manga.

By the middle of that decade foreign training camps were the norm for all of the top teams but not back then.