They all respect him personally but thereās doubts after last Sunday that heāll stay on. He had 2 more years anyways but heās 4 years at it now with 3 bad years in them. Scan is meant to be a bit of a spoofer allegedly but theyāve great time for Divilly and OāNeill.
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You could nearly move King Henry on now at this stage. Outside managers have never worked in Galway.
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Outside managers never work anywhere. Offaly the only county who have ever had success with one
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Starting with Galway winning their first All Ireland in modern times in 1980 - Cyril Farrell, Jarlath Cloonan, Noel Lane, Conor Hayes, Anthony Cunningham, Michael Dononghue are the managers who have got Galway to an All Ireland Final. All 6 are from Galway.
Ger Loughnane, John McIntyre, Shane OāNeill, Henry Shefflin the four outside managers have achieved very little.
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Outside of Dermot Healy, Ćamonn Cregan and double-agent Bond it just doesnāt work for intercounty hurling. Youād always be thinking Shefflin ultimately has his eye on the KK job as well.
And that was because of a monumental shafting of Clare
And Limerick being Limerick
Donāt think he did himself any favours if that was his goal.
The @Kilkennys will look on his time with the Matties with sympathy. Little King Henry could do in fairness.
Outside managers generally donāt work because the inside players arenāt good enough. Itās not particularly to do with the managers.
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After going to Galway heād have to manage the Kilkenny u15s, minors, 20s and camogies before heād be let near the top job.
Henry hasnāt shown much to indicate that heās cut out for management. It reminds me a bit of Sir Bobby Charlton managing Preston North End back in the 1970ās. That was Sir Bobbyās last full time managerial gig too.
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Shefflington is a lower level manager where shouting and intimidation gets results, top class teams at inter County have mived on from that management style 20 years ago
Great players rarely make great managers. Henry should really have served his managerial apprenticeship in some hurling backeater like Laois or Wicklow before progressing to the big leagues.
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Pele and Maradona were hopeless in management and administration, Shefflington should stick to organising the club lottery in Ballyhale
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Was Babs not Galway manager for 79?
Edit: I see you start from 1980!
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Is your theory that if the inside players were good enough, they wouldnāt need to be going outside the county for a manager
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Not quite that simple smarty pants.
Shefflin will probably step down now. No real progress happening. I wouldnāt say KK will be beating down the door for him either
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I thought it was a good theory fucko