The fact remains that there is a cohort for whom coaching itself is a vocation. We can’t all play forever and for many people, training teams is the next best thing
Every Corofin team seemed to be wired the same way. Every one of them would make the right decision 95 per cent of the time. To beat them, you had to be nigh-on perfect. Photograph: INPHO/Natasha Barton
My teammates would shout at each other, wonder who was supposed to be picking up the extra man and then heads would slowly turn back up the field in my direction. The verdicts on my pathetic work-rate that reached my ears were abusive...the stuff I couldn’t hear was undoubtedly worse. Milltown reached a Galway county semi-final, an exceptional achievement for a club its size, with a Corofin coach. Monivea-Abbeyknockmoy won the intermediate final last Saturday with Mike Farragher in charge, before he came on for Corofin in the senior final 24 hours later.There were Corofin men in the dugout for Leitir Mór, even one in the opposing dugout last Sunday for Moycullen. Kieran Fitzgerald is managing Garrymore, a couple of miles over the Mayo border.
Let’s call these Corofin men part of the Morris coaching tree and consider what they could do for football at a time when it’s in dire need of new ways of thinking. But the fact remains that there is another cohort for whom coaching itself is a vocation. We can’t all play forever and for many people, training teams is the next best thing. I don’t think we can say that anything close to 100 per cent of people get involved in coaching because they fancy a few extra quid.
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