It’s hard to imagine a manager who has faced into his first year under such pressure as Jack O’Connor. Somewhat controversially put in charge offor a third time, he was left with no latitude as to what would constitute success: an All-Ireland title or bust.
The memoir Keys to the Kingdom graphically made no secret of the chippiness he felt at what he believed was the caste system in Kerry football, the golden generation of the 1970s and ’80s and the likes of himself, who had no medals to back up his coaching.He had become the man to whom the county would turn when an All-Ireland simply had to be won – a Dr Eamon O’Sullivan, who managed eight winning teams over five decades, for our times.
These were made all the more profound by the recruitment of former Tyrone, Down and Galway coach and Down manager,O’Connor protested in his opening media conference that his teams had always played good football and echoed the advice of his one-time collaborator, the late and legendary Johnny Culloty.
The manager who avidly absorbed tackling drills on the Ulster GAA website when reconstructing after the 2005 All-Ireland defeat by Tyrone, was never going to have difficulties in retaining an innovative, defensive specialist like Tally to assist in addressing the abiding problem of a leaky defence.
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