Kevin McStay Mayo manager

2022 - 7 - 29

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Kevin Mcstay has become a strong favourite to take over the Mayo ... (Irish Post)

FORMER MAYO footballer and analyst Kevin Mcstay is one of the men tipped to take over the Mayo senior footballers next year. McStay has become a strong ...

It is expected that the new manager will be in place before club championships start The two-time Connacht medal winner is also rumoured to have assembled a strong backroom team that includes the likes of Stephen Rochford, the former-Mayo manager and Donegal coach, former Mayo player Liam McHale, All-Ireland winner with Cross Molina Damien Mulligan and Donie Buckley. Mayo were well beaten by Kerry in this year's Championship and with that Horan decided to walk away from the role.

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Kevin McStay linked to Mayo job as pundit assembles impressive ... (Belfast Live)

Former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford and coach Donie Buckley are thought to be on McStay's ticket.

Sign up to our free sports newsletter here. Rochford was thought to have been a stronger contender for the manager’s job himself having recently departed Donegal, where he worked under Declan Bonner as coach, but his presence on the McStay ticket is a significant boost to the well-respected pundit’s hopes of landing a job he has long coveted. McStay is believed to have assembled an impressive back room team which includes former Mayo manager Stephen Rochford and highly respected coach Donie Buckley, who has worked extensively with Mayo in the past.

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Former Roscommon boss Kevin McStay linked with vacant Mayo ... (The Irish Sun)

FORMER Mayo star Kevin McStay has thrown his hat in the ring for the county's vacant football manager job, according to reports.Mayo are on the lookou.

Colm O'Rourke was announced Meath manager, with the Royals having been looking to fill a vacancy since the departure of Andy McEntee, who has since joined Antrim. One of those nine points, coming in the first-half, drew praise from McStay, who called it the 'point of the championship.' Mayo are on the lookout for a new manager since the resignation of James Horan back at the end of June.

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Mayo fans thrilled over dream potential coaching ticket (Extra.ie)

Kevin McStay is fronting a management dream team that includes Stephen Rochford and Donie Buckley as nominations close this evening for the Mayo job.

The reunion of Rochford and Buckley will excite Mayo fans just as much. But it is the McStay-led challenge that intrigues. The Mayo board have expressed a desire to appoint a new manager in time for the start of the county championship at the beginning of September.

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Kevin McStay assembling all-star backroom team for Mayo role (BreakingNews.ie)

The former Roscommon boss is putting his hat in the ring for the vacant Mayo manager role.

The Mayo executive have set tomorrow as the deadline for expressions of interest in succeeding Horan who parted ways after a second four-year term in charge following the All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Kerry. McStay, who has won provincial and All-Ireland success with St Brigid's in the 2012/13 season and brought Roscommon to a Nestor Cup in '17, had previously put his name forward for the Mayo position in 2014 when James Horan left the first time but was overlooked for the duo of Noel Connelly and Pat Holmes. As the Irish Examiner reports, former Mayo footballer Dempsey has guided his native Knockmore to the last two Mayo SFC titles and was in charge of the county's minor and U21 teams.

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