The Mayo News is also reporting today that Johnno has moved swiftly to clarify where he stands on his position as manager of the senior county team. Contrary to the reports published in the last week, which apparently originated in the Irish Examiner (can’t find any link to it, though) but was also carried by the Irish Times, RTE and Hogan Stand, El Jefe stresses that he never said that he had “decided to take up the option for the remaining 12 months in the position”. Instead, he tells the Mayo News that all he’d said after the Meath game was that he was keen to stay on as manager. Johnno has also explained the position on how much longer he has left under his current mandate and in this regard it turns out that my thinking when the issue came up this time last year was, in fact, correct: the two-year extension the County Board gave him last year was additional to the one remaining year that he already had. This means that Johnno’s term runs to the end of the 2011 season and so does not terminate next year.
In light of Johnno’s clarification, it’s clear that (a) I shouldn’t have bothered writing about this at all last night and (b) there’s now absolutely no point in speculating about who will replace him as bainisteoir. Instead, we can all settle back and begin looking forward to Connacht’s own Battle of the Bulge between our man and Big Joe at McHale Park next summer. Mind you, if either the NAMA plan or the budget (or both) go tits up and we’re all off to the polls this side of Christmas, then all bets are off as regards who’ll be prowling the sidelines for us next year but, ceteris paribus (gotta have a bit of Latin every once in a while), our current man will still be there then.
No
Alteration of
Manager
At all , at all….
Anyway as I said previously no all ireland series wins is a very poor return for three years in charge of Mayo , and I doubt any other person would have gotten away with it. Johnno has been given some leeway and I hope the next 2 years will see some results in Croke Park..
Interesting to see that the Mayo News also says that the same selectors will be back with Johnno.
Willie J, cannot see him getting any Senior of Junio Ministry. Michael Ring is well ahead of him in the pecking order in that record. Say 30 jobs between FG and Labour will be split 65/35 in % terms. There is no way that Mayo will have a Taoiseach and a Junior Minister.
Enda as Taoiseach, Pat Rabitte as Minister of Art/Sport/Tourism, John O’Mahony as Mayo Manager – a trinity of Mayomen celebrating together on Mayo winning Sam in Croke Park in September in 2011 !!! What a scenario !!
There’s at least 4 speculative predictions in that single sentence but which of them is completely ridiculous ??
All we’d need then is the real Mary back as President to present Sam!