Derry Club Football & Hurling

[tbrick18]

Is Chrissy McKaigue to the backroom team a good move or not?

I wouldn't have thought so.
Too close to the current panel of players.
I assume that means he has retired from playing?

I really dont think this is a good move for Derry. It could split the fan base.
It will definately cost us a lot of money.
I'm not convinced Harte has moved on with the current game, so we could well flounder.
Will he be a character who can entice players back into the fold, players like Emmet Bradley?

I dunno.

If it was another manager with 3 AI wins under the belt I'd probably be saying it was a brilliant move.
But as it's him, I can't bring myself to come around to that way of thinking.
If he helps us get an AI though, he'll be the best manager since Eamon Coleman. 

[tbrick18]

For me the biggest concern now that Meenagh has ruled himself out, it continuity.
This senior team is probably currently 1 step away from an AI. If we bring in an entirely new management team they will undoubtedly want to implement their own style of play. That will take time for players to become comfortable with.
We risk falling back a little now with that prospect.

No idea what the DCB are planning but you'd have to imagine O'Rourke is top of the list. If that's the case, the deal may already have been done and any announcements are being held until the end of the club championship for Glen.
If he's not in the running, Gallagher is probably being talked about and perhaps they are waiting the outcome of the Ulster Council investigation.
If they clear him, then DCB can safely re-appoint him with any flak being directed to the Ulster Council perhaps?

No idea.
But really it has to be someone like O'Rourke/Gallagher/Gavin or dare I say it, Mickey Harte, to give us a shot at an AI.

The thought of Mickey Harte had entered my head, but I didn't really beleive that it would ever happen.

[shawshank]

This does not sit well with me. Harte has no love for Derry football. Couldn't have.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

I think we're just trolling Mickey Harte ye know. Big meeting, get him up to Owenbeg this eve then once he's in sit him down for a rewatch of the Derry All Ireland 30yrs on 🤓😆

[OakLeaf]

I think we're just trolling Mickey Harte ye know. Big meeting, get him up to Owenbeg this eve then once he's in sit him down for a rewatch of the Derry All Ireland 30yrs on 🤓😆

That would be class lad  I'm wouldn't be delighted if he's ratified tonight but it looks like it's going to happen. I really thought O'Rourke was the man for the job. If he couldn't take it for whatever reason, then to be fair our options were pretty limited. It feels a bit like Mourinho to United, i.e. yesterday's man.

[JoG2]

Will be a very interesting year a head in Ulster. Yesterday's man has just taken Louth from Div 4 to Div 2,Leinster final and v close to Div 1 this year.
Will be a bit on the mad side to see Harte wearing a Derry gilet and beanie hat on the sideline 

Head says Harte, heart says Horse, if you know what I meenagh....

[The Trap]

Will it be a straightforward ratification tonight? Presumably so with possibly a few dissenting voices.
A major thing in whether this goes well or not is in who fills out the backroom team. Harte and Devlin are obviously McKaigues men but Mckaigue cannot be allowed to dictate everything that happens. Needs tk be someone else from Derry having an influence e.g. Gilligan

[oakleaflad]

Just regarding Harte not moving with the times. I thought his Louth team used both space and their GK as an extra player magnificently at times. Probably just didn't have the quality to trouble the top teams.

[WT4E]

Would Meenagh come back in the Backroom? - Might as well go for a total Tyrone look to try and get that AI!

[Wildweasel74]

I had hoped McKeigue stay on one last year. O'Rourke obviously asked and again has passed on it, hard to understand when he's been in round Derry club football past 2 years.Harte the best of what's left out there, a Dublin man aside but he never been a realistic runner. Muldoon likely stay on for some continuity

[InnocentByStander]

I had hoped McKeigue stay on one last year. O'Rourke obviously asked and again has passed on it, hard to understand when he's been in round Derry club football past 2 years.Harte the best of what's left out there, a Dublin man aside but he never been a realistic runner. Muldoon likely stay on for some continuity

If i was a Glen man and MOR took the Derry job id be very annoyed. One game away from being AI Champions the year before and add McFaul onto the scene they wont be far away. He takes the Derry job no way he can be fully committed to Glen. 

[Decod89]

A bit more will be made clearer after (assumed) ratification tonight. Maybe the plan is Micky on a short-term basis, 2-year term maybe. Going for an immediate injection to maximise the current momentum. Then Malachy O'Rourke takes over after the end of his current agreement with Glen.

[Interstellar]

20 years too late for Mickey and Derry football. Was he ever asked to take over Derry back then?

[Wildweasel74]

Outside of Brian Mullins, Derry had the strangest policy of going inhouse and not to their benefit. As there was too many club troubles at the time and not the proper suspensions fired out to deal with it, The amount of good players who only played a year or 2, then stopped/not asked bck, was all coming from with the County, Karl Diamond, Ciaran McNally, Gareth Doherty, C Diamond, fall outs with Ballinderry - Lavey, Kilrea, Slaughtneil, there abit of a theme here. F Doherty not there under Brennan, P Bradley not there under McIvor, D Havereon not there under Damian McE. Losing to Fermanagh then making 8 changes for Monaghan,M Moran the old one remain in the county with proved background and he's too old.

[tyrone08]

Will the lack of rte interviews hurt derry? May sound like a conspiracy but I can't imagine the gaa letting a team win the all ireland with no rte access or interviews after the match. This was floated when tyrone played dublin in the final but dublin hammered us so there was no risk of that happening lol