Selectors and the Unease of All Stars Week

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Selectors know that the best way to attract maximum publicity is to make a questionable call and that prospect occasionally haunts meetings. The process has changed a good deal in my four decades of involvement.

All Stars week arrives and with it the usual unease. Selectors know that the best way to attract maximum publicity is to make a questionable call and that prospect occasionally haunts meetings, as those in disagreement with a decision may sometimes make reference to us all “getting slaughtered” unless it is changed. We don’t publicly defend the final teams, probably because collective responsibility protects everyone from having to stand over choices with which individuals may disagree.

The process has changed a good deal in my four decades of involvement. As a deliberative environment, the old days were ehhh, challenging. Smoking was not forbidden, which clouded the atmosphere fairly quickly, as cigarettes and even pipes smouldered into life around the table. The challenge for Mohill is to try to advance to a first Connacht decider Rory Beggan on Scotstown beating Kilcoo: Any time we play in Ulster, a wee bit of chaos follows These days discussion is pretty evidence-based. Back then the big weapon of advocacy was assertio

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