Roscommon GAA Discussion Thread

Fr Tod Umptious · 14-07-2015 6:19pm

RoscommonTom wrote: »

any word on if evans got the boot, after thinking about it for the few days he might deserve another year, id have taken the fbd and winning division 2 at the start of the year, two trophies is more than Galway or mayo will be winning, if we can stay in division 1 next year itd be mighty

That's it RoscommonTom

You tell them !

naughto · 14-07-2015 8:46pm

I like the Nestor cup to be honest

theoneeyedman · 14-07-2015 9:48pm

RoscommonTom wrote: »

any word on if evans got the boot, after thinking about it for the few days he might deserve another year, id have taken the fbd and winning division 2 at the start of the year, two trophies is more than Galway or mayo will be winning, if we can stay in division 1 next year itd be mighty

FBD..... Jesus wept!

Always_Running · 14-07-2015 11:35pm

A FBD title would be seen as low hanging fruit but even so its a number of years since Roscommon won it. Winning another national league title in Croke park was more than expected I'd say as I recall a few rossies claiming they would be happy to just stay up.

The two championship defeats against Fermanagh,Sligo will leave a black mark and will leave supporters wondering where to next. 2016 a defining year I feel how Roscommon respond to those setbacks will be key.

nice_guy80 · 15-07-2015 12:12am

Always_Running wrote: »

A FBD title would be seen as low hanging fruit but even so its a number of years since Roscommon won it. Winning another national league title in Croke park was more than expected I'd say as I recall a few rossies claiming they would be happy to just stay up.

The two championship defeats against Fermanagh,Sligo will leave a black mark and will leave supporters wondering where to next. 2016 a defining year I feel how Roscommon respond to those setbacks will be key.

Managers are usually judged on championship performances and wins

Hulk Hands · 15-07-2015 12:58am

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Where did I say the under 21 winners from two years ago were terrible? That comment related to your underage teams of 5-10 years ago who should be driving your senior team now. Please don't misquote me and if you want to respond, respond to what I actually posted instead of some amended version of what I've posted that you've created in your head.

Your last line is so ironic its untrue. The whole argument is about you saying Fermanagh will have a better chance at All Ireland glory than Galway in 2020. You haven't answered one question or given one reason why you think Fermanagh will be good in 2020, or why you think Galway will be poor in 2020. It was an idiotic comment and you've idiotically tried to back it up with deflection and gibberish

Comic Book Guy · 15-07-2015 10:33pm

nice_guy80 wrote: »

Managers are usually judged on championship performances and wins

2 wins over Cavan and a win in London doesn't make great viewing from the 3 years in that context.

rosknight · 22-07-2015 3:44pm

Did Club Rossie do their Fundraising draw yet. If memory serves me this draw was supposed to happen last month. Can't see them selling many more tickets now footie is over for the year

cbb1982 · 22-07-2015 3:47pm

The draw has been postponed several times!!

Evans to go

rosknight · 22-07-2015 3:50pm

So what's the bet that another big fundraising event will happen shortly (i.e. races) where we will all be caught to buy and sell tickets so as the Draw can take place in front of all our loyal supporters.....

jesuisros · 28-07-2015 10:58pm

rosknight wrote: »

So what's the bet that another big fundraising event will happen shortly (i.e. races) where we will all be caught to buy and sell tickets so as the Draw can take place in front of all our loyal supporters.....

There's no Evening at the races this year. The Draw is on August 28th according to Twitter

jesuisros · 28-07-2015 11:01pm

Any thoughts on how the Hurling Losers Group games will go? I hear Thomas Featherston got injured this evening so he'll be a big loss to Oran if he's not fit for Monday because the Gaels have been doing well, despite losing to Four Roads by 7. Dominics should shade the other game, it previous years it looked as if adult hurling could be in doubt in the Club but they've turned a corner. Losers Group winner plays Pearses in the Co. Semi-Final

spiralism · 12-08-2015 5:11pm

John Evans has resigned

TimRiggins · 12-08-2015 6:18pm

Fair play to Evans, Did a great job on integrating our younger players into senior county football and brought us through the ranks. Whether the players were there or not Roscommon are a lot higher thought of then before he took over and he should be applauded for that.

Kevin McStay will get the job you'd think. Would be interested to see if James Horan would have interest.

yabadabado · 12-08-2015 6:20pm

McStay will want the job but I hope he doesn't get it.Horan would be a excellent appointment if he had any interest in it.

SureYWouldntYa · 12-08-2015 10:48pm

RoscommonTom wrote: »

Bring back fergal O'Donnell, not a chance horan would be interested, what sort of clowns are he with that talk

would he be interested ? didn't he leave 3 years ago because he had a young family, doubt much will have changed in 3 years on that front

seligehgit · 12-08-2015 10:59pm

yabadabado wrote: »

McStay will want the job but I hope he doesn't get it.Horan would be a excellent appointment if he had any interest in it.

Just curious as to why you are hoping Kevin McStay does'nt get the job,tbh I'd have thought that he'd be an excellent appointment.BTW I'm not trying to be smart.

manofwisdom · 12-08-2015 11:04pm

After waiting one month and listening to the general vibe i think John Evans has done what is best for Roscommon football by now stepping aside. It shouldn't be forgotten that he have done the ground work for the new management Roscommon were Div 3 before he arrived and weren't showing signs of rising out of that level and he not only achieved that but left Roscommon in div 1.

Plenty will talk about the Sligo,Fermanagh championship defeats as for the reason he is now gone which is probably correct but i think the championship defeat that cost him the most was last year against Mayo in Hyde park. Roscommon had the winning of that game 3 points up with 8 mins to go it was a huge opportunity lost, a win there and Roscommon under John Evans could have a Connacht title or two now.

yabadabado · 12-08-2015 11:10pm

seligehgit wrote: »

Just curious as to why you are hoping Kevin McStay does'nt get the job,tbh I'd have thought that he'd be an excellent appointment.BTW I'm not trying to be smart.

An occasional club manager with no inter county management experience ,a huge step up for him.

I expect the CB have someone already lined up ,we cant have a search for a manager dragging on.If a certain wealthy benefactor has his way then FO'D will be back and he will give a lot of cash towards the project.

Strongbow10 · 12-08-2015 11:15pm

seligehgit wrote: »

Just curious as to why you are hoping Kevin McStay does'nt get the job,tbh I'd have thought that he'd be an excellent appointment.BTW I'm not trying to be smart.

What are McStay's credentials exactly? No record whatsoever of doing anything of note at inter county level.

Fair enough he took Brigids to the club all Ireland title, but they had been finalists before and you could say they were knocking on the door before he arrived.

Take the fact he's a well known media personality out of it and tell us why he should be handed the job? It's a big gamble bringing in a guy without any top level management experience.

seligehgit · 12-08-2015 11:24pm

Strongbow10 wrote: »

What are McStay's credentials exactly? No record whatsoever of doing anything of note at inter county level.

Fair enough he took Brigids to the club all Ireland title, but they had been finalists before and you could say they were knocking on the door before he arrived.

Take the fact he's a well known media personality out of it and tell us why he should be handed the job? It's a big gamble bringing in a guy without any top level management experience.

Fair points but all inter county managers have got to start somewhere,it is a gamble but I think he could turn out to be a good appointment.I'd imagine Feargal O Donnell is the front runner?

I am'nt too sure if James Horan would be available for the job,he has quite a young family and is I can only imagine enjoying a well earned break from inter county management,enjoying his media work with Newstalk and SKY.I believe he has mentioned in the fairly recent past that he'd only be interested in a potential return to management of the Mayo team into the future.

TimRiggins · 12-08-2015 11:27pm

I wouldn't really like McStay to get the job, but who is going to realistically want the job? What high level managers would want it? If Horan is staying in management and waiting for a big job fair enough, but I'd offer to him atleast. Whether we could afford a big manager or not is another thing.

TCDStudent1 · 12-08-2015 11:31pm

Strongbow10 wrote: »

What are McStay's credentials exactly? No record whatsoever of doing anything of note at inter county level.

Fair enough he took Brigids to the club all Ireland title, but they had been finalists before and you could say they were knocking on the door before he arrived.

Take the fact he's a well known media personality out of it and tell us why he should be handed the job? It's a big gamble bringing in a guy without any top level management experience.

From what I have heard though, he did put together a very well run together outfit in St. Brigids.

I do find it strange that Evans walked. I was sure he'd have liked a crack at division 1 next year. Would have he gotten the backing to stay on? Or was this a case of walking before he was pushed?

yabadabado · 13-08-2015 12:15am

Evans jumped before he was pushed.Clubs were going to vote him out.

I think it will be McStay as manager.He had success with Brigid's but a lot of the ground work was done for him,They had been around the scene with AI semi/Final in the previous few seasons.

Realistically there probably isnt too many options available to the CB to go for.
Rumours that FOD/McStay will be chosen but I think that will be very unlikely.

TimRiggins · 13-08-2015 3:24am

yabadabado wrote: »

Evans jumped before he was pushed.Clubs were going to vote him out.

I think it will be McStay as manager.He had success with Brigid's but a lot of the ground work was done for him,They had been around the scene with AI semi/Final in the previous few seasons.

Realistically there probably isnt too many options available to the CB to go for.
Rumours that FOD/McStay will be chosen but I think that will be very unlikely.

FOD and McStay together in any capacity would be decent. The players we have at the minute suit the style of play we played under O'Donnell, and he very nearly put two back to back connaghts together.

Add that to McStay's success with Brigids and thats the two managers of our coutys two best recent wins of the last 5 years.

rossie1977 · 13-08-2015 3:14pm

Strongbow10 wrote: »

What are McStay's credentials exactly? No record whatsoever of doing anything of note at inter county level.

took mayo under 21s to all-ireland final in 2001 only to lose to an excellent tyrone side with players that would go on to backbone their senior side for the next decade such as pascal mcconnell, conor gormley, philip jordan, brian mcguigan, kevin hughes, steven o neill and eoin mulligan. cormac mcanallen also started for tyrone that day

to the topic of evans it was clear that his championship record wasn't good enough. like with tipperary previously evans proved himself an excellent league manager but seemed out of his depth in the championship for whatever reason.

outside the match against mayo in the hyde last year and the two qualifier matches with cavan our performances in the championship under evans ranged from bad to downright awful

for 35 minutes in the second half last year leitrim dominated us and if they had more than just mulligan would have beat us. the scoreline over in london this year flattered us massively as london were the better team for most of the game. we didn't score from play at all against armagh first half last year in the hyde, the performance up in sligo this year ranks alongside galway in 2012 and mayo in 2009 as worst performance i have seen from a roscommon side this past 25 years and losing to fermanagh when 5-6 points up with only a few minutes to go was criminal

spiralism · 13-08-2015 3:20pm

I'm glad Evans is gone tbh. Think we've got promoted due to a weak D2, good attacking players and a bit of luck and the manner we got knocked out of the championship this year was incredibly damning. There was a quarter final easily there for the taking but we didn't have our **** together.

Strongbow10 · 13-08-2015 4:03pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

took mayo under 21s to all-ireland final in 2001 only to lose to an excellent tyrone side with players that would go on to backbone their senior side for the next decade such as pascal mcconnell, conor gormley, philip jordan, brian mcguigan, kevin hughes, steven o neill and eoin mulligan. cormac mcanallen also started for tyrone that day

to the topic of evans it was clear that his championship record wasn't good enough. like with tipperary previously evans proved himself an excellent league manager but seemed out of his depth in the championship for whatever reason.

outside the match against mayo in the hyde last year and the two qualifier matches with cavan our performances in the championship under evans ranged from bad to downright awful

for 35 minutes in the second half last year leitrim dominated us and if they had more than just mulligan would have beat us. the scoreline over in london this year flattered us massively as london were the better team for most of the game. we didn't score from play at all against armagh first half last year in the hyde, the performance up in sligo this year ranks alongside galway in 2012 and mayo in 2009 as worst performance i have seen from a roscommon side this past 25 years and losing to fermanagh when 5-6 points up with only a few minutes to go was criminal

In terms of league success there is a pretty standard blueprint.

If you have players on board early, committed and training with a real intensity then a league title or promotion is there for alot of sides.

The caveat is that such intensity at that time of year will see a drop off in levels come summer time when every other team has caught up in terms of fitness and preparation.

Ros have peaked in Feb-April in the last 2-3 years due to how they were prepared. It might be naive to say it was some kind of plan to get into the higher divisions in order to give younger players a better standard of opposition, in order to bring them on come the summer time.

In short, the top inter county sides (and alot of the lesser ones) are operating at 50 or 60% during the league. Ros have been operating at close to maximum early in the year. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise its not going to be maintained into the late summer months.

The problem now however, is that in order to survive division 1, a side like Ros will have to treat the league extremely seriously. There is no room for blooding youngsters in order to have them fresh, experienced and firing come the summer. Do that and Ros will be relegated quick smart unfortunately.

So its kinda catch 22, ye are damned if ye do and damned if ye don't.

One thing Evans had going for him was a united panel of players, who genuinely did play for him, there was alot of loyalty towards him from those who mattered.

A county like Ros cannot bring in a divisive character who will splinter the panel. There is talent of course but like alot of small counties the depth is only as big as the resources available, so the players will need to buy into the next appointment.

rossie1977 · 13-08-2015 10:55pm

Strongbow10 wrote: »

In short, the top inter county sides (and alot of the lesser ones) are operating at 50 or 60% during the league. Ros have been operating at close to maximum early in the year. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise its not going to be maintained into the late summer months.

roscommon even in the fbd and league were inconsistent as hell, something that marred the evans reign. we beat mayo and galway in the fbd and lost to nuig with a full strength side..

we go up to down and kildare and put on great performances in the league and then get blown away by laois..no consistency at all. we hold a big lead against galway in the league like against fermanagh and end up losing the game.

i was at the league final with down and the london game and you wouldn't think it was the same team and those games were only 4 weeks apart. we were second best all over the field against london for large parts of that game

we simply couldn't seem to put 2 or 3 good performances in a row together under evans no matter the time of year and if you can't do that in the championship you are out faster than you can blink...at least in the league you can recover from 1 or 2 defeats in the championship you can't

Cosmo Kramer · 14-08-2015 8:41am

rossie1977 wrote: »

took mayo under 21s to all-ireland final in 2001 only to lose to an excellent tyrone side with players that would go on to backbone their senior side for the next decade such as pascal mcconnell, conor gormley, philip jordan, brian mcguigan, kevin hughes, steven o neill and eoin mulligan. cormac mcanallen also started for tyrone that day

That's an awful long time to be going back to find achievements, John O'Mahony won the senior all ireland the same year but I doubt you'd want him as Roscommon manager today. McStay might prove to be the right man if you get him in but, on the face of it, there's little to suggest that he can achieve any more than John Evans, both managers have had similar success at underage and club level. Also, as a Mayo man, the knives will be out even more quickly for McStay if things don't go well at any point.

To be honest, ditching a coach of a young developing team just after getting promotion to Division one doesn't suggest that the supporters in Roscommon will have realistic expectations of a new man coming in.

TCDStudent1 · 14-08-2015 9:39am

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

That's an awful long time to be going back to find achievements, John O'Mahony won the senior all ireland the same year but I doubt you'd want him as Roscommon manager today. McStay might prove to be the right man if you get him in but, on the face of it, there's little to suggest that he can achieve any more than John Evans, both managers have had similar success at underage and club level. Also, as a Mayo man, the knives will be out even more quickly for McStay if things don't go well at any point.

To be honest, ditching a coach of a young developing team just after getting promotion to Division one doesn't suggest that the supporters in Roscommon will have realistic expectations of a new man coming in.

Why would Roscommon fans not want O'Mahony?

Fr Tod Umptious · 14-08-2015 1:13pm

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Why would Roscommon fans not want O'Mahony?

Look at him most recent managerial experience with Mayo.
Nothing better than a QF loss to a average Meath side, a qualifier loss on Longford in June !

And look at Mayo since, 5 Connacht titles and 5 SF appearance at least.

O Manahoy is from what now could be called a different era of management.
A era where the game was far less technical ad it is now.

Roscommon need some one young. If FOD is available again he should be appointed in the morning

padd b1975 · 14-08-2015 3:05pm

I would be fairly certain they will stay inside the county for their next appointment as they have a lot of expense coming up redeveloping Hyde Park.....

megadodge · 14-08-2015 3:11pm

I always thought O'Mahoney was an excellent manager, but his last stint over Mayo was a disaster. Anyway, I don't think O'Mahoney would ever manage Roscommon to be honest. Whether anyone wants to hear it or not, he has quite a history of anti-Roscommon bias, so I really don't think he'd be interested.

I'm not sure Fergie will be taking it either. He has other things on his mind at the moment.

By some considerable distance, Kevin McStay was the best manager I worked under (that's not necessarily saying much though). Very organised, very thorough, very knowledgable, positive and in general is very well-liked by players. If you ever listen to his analysis on TV, it's accurate, well-thought out and never ultra-negative. Having said that, I wonder how badly he'd want it, as he only recently went for the Mayo job, which shows where his loyalties still lie. He doesn't strike me as the bitter type who'd like to get one back on the Mayo CB by leading a Ros team to beat them, so I'm far from confident he'd take it.

Who that leaves us I'm not sure, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

rossie1977 · 14-08-2015 10:15pm

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

To be honest, ditching a coach of a young developing team just after getting promotion to Division one doesn't suggest that the supporters in Roscommon will have realistic expectations of a new man coming in.

supporters had nothing to do with evans quitting. the clubs and sponsors were the ones that forced his hand if you believe the rumours that are swirling around.

anyway what are the roscommons supporters realistic ambitions exactly? we haven't even got to a connacht final since 2011 (despite minor/under 21, club and league success during that period) while sligo have gotten to 2 during the same period. speaking of sligo we beat them 6-18 to 12 points in the under 21s this year and that was massively easing off in the second half as we lead 5-9 to 4 points at half time. a number of that sligo under 21 side including the fullback kevin mcdonnell (who was destroyed in the under 21 game) started the senior game then 2 months later and beat us so something is clearly wrong in the senior setup somewhere. btw mcdonnell ended up keeping kilbride scoreless in the senior game..

westmeath in 2003 were in a similar position to us. they had just been promoted to division 1 with a strong underage system in place but had a poor championship outing that year and just like now luke dempsey resigned so its not like this is the first time something like this has happened..

nice_guy80 · 14-08-2015 11:35pm

rossie1977 wrote: »

supporters had nothing to do with evans quitting. the clubs and sponsors were the ones that forced his hand if you believe the rumours that are swirling around.

anyway what are the roscommons supporters realistic ambitions exactly? we haven't even got to a connacht final since 2011 (despite minor/under 21, club and league success during that period) while sligo have gotten to 2 during the same period. speaking of sligo we beat them 6-18 to 12 points in the under 21s this year and that was massively easing off in the second half as we lead 5-9 to 4 points at half time. a number of that sligo under 21 side including the fullback kevin mcdonnell (who was destroyed in the under 21 game) started the senior game then 2 months later and beat us so something is clearly wrong in the senior setup somewhere. btw mcdonnell ended up keeping kilbride scoreless in the senior game..

westmeath in 2003 were in a similar position to us. they had just been promoted to division 1 with a strong underage system in place but had a poor championship outing that year and just like now luke dempsey resigned so its not like this is the first time something like this has happened..

Well, it doesn't help that Kilbride and Murtagh failed fitness tests during the week before the Sligo game, yet Evans started them. A few players on the panel were very disgruntled with starting injured players in a big championship game - and their concerns were borne out. Evans failed to get Roscommon's best 15 on the park v Sligo, Cavan or Fermanagh. In fact, he put on Murtagh v Cavan and he aggravated his injury, thus ruling him out for the Fermanagh game. Where Evans then decided to pull off probably three of the best performing Ros players on the day coming into the last 15 minutes, and then wondered why we collapsed in the final 10 minutes.

GAA managers are judged on championship results and performances. Anyone remember the performance v Armagh in 2014? The one victory on home soil in 2015 (I discount London) was against a 14 man Cavan.

Yes, Mr Evans did very well in the league. in 2015 we still managed to throw away the game v Galway, collapsed v Laois and were gifted a game by the Meath keeper. In the league final Down had a man very harshly sent off to give us a huge advantage.

Cosmo Kramer · 15-08-2015 10:15am

rossie1977 wrote: »

supporters had nothing to do with evans quitting. the clubs and sponsors were the ones that forced his hand if you believe the rumours that are swirling around.

anyway what are the roscommons supporters realistic ambitions exactly? we haven't even got to a connacht final since 2011 (despite minor/under 21, club and league success during that period) while sligo have gotten to 2 during the same period. speaking of sligo we beat them 6-18 to 12 points in the under 21s this year and that was massively easing off in the second half as we lead 5-9 to 4 points at half time. a number of that sligo under 21 side including the fullback kevin mcdonnell (who was destroyed in the under 21 game) started the senior game then 2 months later and beat us so something is clearly wrong in the senior setup somewhere. btw mcdonnell ended up keeping kilbride scoreless in the senior game..

westmeath in 2003 were in a similar position to us. they had just been promoted to division 1 with a strong underage system in place but had a poor championship outing that year and just like now luke dempsey resigned so its not like this is the first time something like this has happened..

A lot of Roscommon supporters I spoke to wanted him gone. Not all by any means but the Evans out crowd definitely seemed to be in the majority especially after they saw what happened to Sligo against Mayo and Tyrone. Roscommon supporters ambitions - well I was talking to one lad after the league who thought this year was maybe just a year too soon for the All Ireland. I don't think that's the general attitude but I get the impression that many expect a Connacht title next year. That doesn't seem realistic to me at all.

I think that a lot of Roscommon followers overestimate the quality of players they have available at the moment based on the under 21 teams, this attitude has maybe spread to the clubs resulting in Evans' achievements being perceived as more down to the players than him. There is potential there but, on average, Roscommon's displays in the last year are a reflection of where they stand in the game - promotion to division 1 was probably a slight overachievement, losing to Sligo away a slight underachievement. Overall Roscommon sit somewhere in the middle of the pack.

gucci · 22-09-2015 10:16am

McStay to be interviewed next week:

Link from Irish Times

wow sierra · 27-09-2015 5:35pm

Roscommon Senior Football Championship Semi Finals today in Kiltoom

Padraig Pearses 2.12 Roscommon Gaels 0.10
St.Brigids 0.12 Clan na nGael 0.14

Sets up a brilliant prospect for the final!

seligehgit · 27-09-2015 6:18pm

wow sierra wrote: »

Roscommon Senior Football Championship Semi Finals today in Kiltoom

Padraig Pearses 2.12 Roscommon Gaels 0.10
St.Brigids 0.12 Clan na nGael 0.14

Sets up a brilliant prospect for the final!

Was it a shock that St. Brigids were beaten?They seemed to be in decline based on last year's Connaught club championship...

Syferus · 27-09-2015 7:09pm

seligehgit wrote: »

Was it a shock that St. Brigids were beaten?They seemed to be in decline based on last year's Connaught club championship...

Of course it's a shock. Frankie (black) and Garvan Dolan sent off meant Brigids spent nearly all the second half with 14 men, and key players like Darragh Donnelly and Georoid Cuniffe were out too. But fair play to Clann - clearly the better side, even when it was 15v15.

Really exciting county final in prospect now.

Colash · 27-09-2015 7:11pm

These results today will do the world of good for roscommon club football

yabadabado · 27-09-2015 7:13pm

No harm to see a change .Brigid's have had a superb run but all good things come to an end.

Colash · 27-09-2015 7:19pm

I'd love to see the next few years county finals being contested between the likes of pearses , boyle , castlerea , clann , bridgets , and Ros gaels . There's a lot of young footballers coming through on all these sides an the future looks bright for ros football

Addle · 29-09-2015 1:09am

https://mobile.twitter.com/cooney_ian/status/648590338483978240

Addle · 29-09-2015 1:16am

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/kevin-mcstay-ready-for-new-role-as-roscommon-manager-1.2370334
Two Mayo men and one Roscommon man.
Too many chiefs?

blowitupref · 29-09-2015 3:07am

Addle wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/kevin-mcstay-ready-for-new-role-as-roscommon-manager-1.2370334
Two Mayo men and one Roscommon man.
Too many chiefs?

Modern day management has loads of chiefs. On paper that is a good management team that Roscommon have in place and they could finally have a good chance to fulfilling the potential of their panel in the championship.

Fr Tod Umptious · 29-09-2015 8:31am

Joint managers eh ?

Unlike the now unraveling Mayo situation, where the jointed managers have worked successfully together before, this setup seems to be a way of trying to please everyone.

Not sure if it will work.

Always_Running · 29-09-2015 9:40am

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Joint managers eh ?

Unlike the now unraveling Mayo situation, where the jointed managers have worked successfully together before, this setup seems to be a way of trying to please everyone.

Not sure if it will work.

in fairness this joint Ros managers won't be under the pressure to deliver like Mayos were e.g All Ireland or bust.

nice_guy80 · 29-09-2015 12:00pm

That is a fairly strong management setup, with good coaches.
I like David Casey being involved.

The logistics of training a county like Roscommon are hard, with so many players working out of the county.
If we could tempt one or two more lads home from abroad I think we'd have the makings of a right good panel

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