If a manager’s phone could talk. Or take screenshots.
It doesn’t feel so much like running a team as it does a daycare when you take over a GAA outfit. Every manager will tell you that.
The excuses that come through, the exchanges with players, complaints from members, they’d fill their own book.
Here are 18 messages that every GAA manager has received (at least these anyway).
1. The one teeing up an early training exit
2. The crafty corner back
3. The no explanation, no reply guy
He won’t be there. That’s all you need to know.
4. The one who keeps talking until something comes out
5. The one who’s being screwed over
6. The Junior B excuse
Not so much an excuse as it is a blunt heads up.
7. The bookworm
8. The guy with a girlfriend
9. The guy with a granny
10. The latecomer
11. The secretary
12. The parent
13. The one who’s always injured
14. The chancer
15. The arse-lick
16. The holidayer
17. This guy
18. The only man with a reasonable excuse
