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We need to be really ambitious with our next appointment and go after some of the best young talents in management at the minute. I think we should go for Tony McEntee, Tohill or Aidan O'Rourke.
Tony McEntee has the Cross job atm obviously and would be difficult to get, but at the same time he has stated he wants intercounty experience before taking the Armagh job and has proven himself as a fantastic manager by taking what many considered a transitional Cross team to back to back All Irelands.
Tohill did a brilliant job with the International Rules team second time round and received rave reviews for the professionalism he brought to the set up. I'm sure has the knowledge, leadership and charisma to bring us on.
O'Rourke has been involved in numerous inter county set ups and seems to really rate Antrim players (has said he can't believe Antrim don't do better considering the talent we had at university level a few years ago).
Any one of those three would be a really exciting move and all of them would be capable of taking us to the next level I feel.

Not much talk about this game on here, for me it's a really fascinating game.
Hard to know which way it will go. Seems to be that most people think the best, or even only, way to play Donegal (when they're set up defensively) is to move the ball cleverly around their 45, shift their defence around, use the full width of Croke and then be economical in taking whatever space and scoring opportunities you can create.
Will be interesting to see if Cork can bulldoze holes through the Donegal screen and essentially wear them down, because I can't see Cork's inside forwards getting the space to show their talents, and their players out the field aren't nearly as creative as their Kerry counterparts who couldn't weave their way through the Donegal blanket.
The contrast in styles will also be interesting. Before the Kerry game alot of lazy pundits talked about the clash of styles but in my opinion Donegal and Kerry were set up very similarly. Cork, although I haven't seen alot of them this year, play a traditional line out as far as I'm aware so will be intriguing to see how this fares against the Donegal system.