Galway's hopes underpinned by relative strangers 

Joint managers at senior inter-county level are a unique species, rarer still is a managerial partnership of two people who hardly knew each other before coming to share the main bib

READY FOR THE OFF: Galway players before the league game against Meath in February. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

If joint managers at senior inter-county level are a unique species, then rarer still is a managerial partnership of two people who hardly knew each other before coming to share the main bib.

Of the select few joint tickets who’ve been trusted with the top job in their county, the respective pair tend to have already shown that theirs is a successful sideline marriage by the time they co-graduate to the senior gig.