Kevin McStay remembers a conversation with then Roscommon chairman Seamus Sweeney as his managerial career flashed in front of him in New York eight years ago.
It would have also inflicted a banging headache on administrators as to how they would handle New York moving on in the Championship and, potentially, the qualifiers, as well as how Roscommon would be accommodated. Roscommon had done well in Division One that year and, though they suffered a heavy League semi-final defeat to Kerry, there was no sense that they were vulnerable to becoming the first county to lose a Championship game to New York.“They sure had. I don’t particularly want to revisit those moments! I’ve gone through the therapy and out the other end. They were super on the day, and Roscommon weren’t as good as we wanted to be.
The season petered out disappointingly for Roscommon and McStay ended up taking sole charge the following year, when he delivered a Connacht title, without which his CV may not have carried the weight to land him the Mayo job. “I’m very proud of the Connacht Championship. I value the couple of medals I got here in this Championship, as all our players do. There’s incredible rivalries here in the home counties, and no doubt London and New York have added to it.
“That’s always better than a few training sessions, no matter what the logistics of the trip are. And we’ll get to see lads in a real Championship setting, and see how they do.”
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