Antrim Hurling

[NorthWestAntrimGael]

I see Neil McManus has been brought into Davy Fitz' coaching team. Personally I'd have Liam Watson over him any day. Don't get this obsession with the Rory Og men.

[paddyjohn]

I see Neil McManus has been brought into Davy Fitz' coaching team. Personally I'd have Liam Watson over him any day. Don't get this obsession with the Rory Og men.

Hiya Liam. Hope you're ok.

[johnnycool]

I see Neil McManus has been brought into Davy Fitz' coaching team. Personally I'd have Liam Watson over him any day. Don't get this obsession with the Rory Og men.

Hiya Liam. Hope you're ok.

I'm not sure I'd be keen on any "star" player joining my coaching team unless they've a decent history of actually coaching at a decent level.

[NAG1]

I see Neil McManus has been brought into Davy Fitz' coaching team. Personally I'd have Liam Watson over him any day. Don't get this obsession with the Rory Og men.

Hiya Liam. Hope you're ok.

Don't feed it.

[theskull1]

I'm not sure I'd be keen on any "star" player joining my coaching team unless they've a decent history of actually coaching at a decent level.

That shouldn't be a controversial opinion

[quit yo jibbajabba]

I see Neil McManus has been brought into Davy Fitz' coaching team. Personally I'd have Liam Watson over him any day. Don't get this obsession with the Rory Og men.

Hiya Liam. Hope you're ok.

Saw Liam's name in the news there recently alright 😜

[Kidder81]

It's the whole "performance coach" nonsense, what's wrong with the title being a selector ?

And I don't think anyone that is still playing club hurling should be involved

[imtommygunn]

That's the noises I get from Down with Conor Laverty. It's frowned upon by a lot I hear.

Yeah I don't know why performance coach instead of selector either.

That being said I hope it works out for him.

[paddyjohn]

I'm not having a dig at Watson here, but ask the lads in Lavey about him. Super training and enjoyable but didn't know when he was for showing and very undependable from what I was told.

I think McManus is a shrewd name to add to the Backroom team. A good link man between the team and the manager and he'll be smart to know his place and stay out of the public eye.

[bannside]

Agree with this, can understand why Davy would want him on his ticket. But in the medium term it would be good to see Neil take an under 16 team or minor team the whole way to senior. It can't all be about the seniors, who is coming behind Davy when he squeezes the last drop from the barrel?

[paddyjohn]

Agree with this, can understand why Davy would want him on his ticket. But in the medium term it would be good to see Neil take an under 16 team or minor team the whole way to senior. It can't all be about the seniors, who is coming behind Davy when he squeezes the last drop from the barrel?

Would Shivers not be the natural successor? Un20 manager as last couple of years? McManus brother in law aswell and with Graffin gaining experience with St Galls, the jigsaw pieces together.

[Kidder81]

I'm not having a dig at Watson here, but ask the lads in Lavey about him. Super training and enjoyable but didn't know when he was for showing and very undependable from what I was told.

I think McManus is a shrewd name to add to the Backroom team. A good link man between the team and the manager and he'll be smart to know his place and stay out of the public eye.

Mmm, not so sure

[johnnycool]

Agree with this, can understand why Davy would want him on his ticket. But in the medium term it would be good to see Neil take an under 16 team or minor team the whole way to senior. It can't all be about the seniors, who is coming behind Davy when he squeezes the last drop from the barrel?

Would Shivers not be the natural successor? Un20 manager as last couple of years? McManus brother in law aswell and with Graffin gaining experience with St Galls, the jigsaw pieces together.

Graffan was involved with the Down Senior Camogs the last few years with PD and a host of others.

Where does he get the time?

For the love of the game I suppose.

[NAG1]

Agree with this, can understand why Davy would want him on his ticket. But in the medium term it would be good to see Neil take an under 16 team or minor team the whole way to senior. It can't all be about the seniors, who is coming behind Davy when he squeezes the last drop from the barrel?

Would Shivers not be the natural successor? Un20 manager as last couple of years? McManus brother in law aswell and with Graffin gaining experience with St Galls, the jigsaw pieces together.

Graffan was involved with the Down Senior Camogs the last few years with PD and a host of others.

Where does he get the time?

For the love of the game I suppose.

Those GPA guys seem too have oodles of time 

Doesnt take a rocket scientist to read the future path with this one lads.

The lack of any real experience in the set up is a genuine concern, but then we know Davy runs the show so what say anyone gets I'd imagine would be limited anyway.

Comments from BS are closer to the mark, investment is at the wrong end of the pathway, but we can never seem to get that message across and will be in a perpetual cycle of this until we get someone involved who actually understands this.

[Kidder81]

Agree with this, can understand why Davy would want him on his ticket. But in the medium term it would be good to see Neil take an under 16 team or minor team the whole way to senior. It can't all be about the seniors, who is coming behind Davy when he squeezes the last drop from the barrel?

Would Shivers not be the natural successor? Un20 manager as last couple of years? McManus brother in law aswell and with Graffin gaining experience with St Galls, the jigsaw pieces together.

Graffan was involved with the Down Senior Camogs the last few years with PD and a host of others.

Where does he get the time?

For the love of the game I suppose.

He has also been with St Galls senior hurlers last couple of years