Kevin McStay

2022 - 9 - 14

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Joe Brolly's rude joke about Kevin McStay's Mayo backroom team (Irish Mirror)

Granted, everything Joe Brolly says or writes needs to be taken with a grain of salt as he does clearly enjoy making himself the centre of attention but ...

I would be daft not to use the experience and knowhow and knowledge around me. That’s the way I’m going to go about it. “I feel we’ve been able to get a very strong group into the same room at the same time to drive this on now for the next four years.” The majority of his followers chuckled at the gag although the odd one made the point that Dublin have led the charge in having ever-increasing backroom teams to the point of it seeming a bit ridiculous. “Then I had a list of backroom guys I wanted to have with me and there wasn’t a Plan B on that list. And now McStay is the latest man to put his hand up in the hope of guiding them to the promised land.

Kevin McStay explains personal desire not main factor behind ... (Pundit Arena)

Newly-appointed Mayo manager Kevin McStay has explained that personal desire was not his primary motivation for pursuing the role.

[https://t.co/S9GZkgKsOs] Those lads were either with me or I wasn’t going to go.” “I didn’t want this for Kevin McStay.

Kevin McStay focused on 'the next quest for Mayo' | Connaught ... (Connaught Telegraph)

New Mayo senior football team manager Kevin McStay has spoken to our sports editor Brian Gillespie about his joy at being appointed to the role, ...

Kevin McStay makes promise to Mayo supporters at unveiling (Extra.ie)

Kevin McStay made a promise to Mayo football supporters on Tuesday night, vowing he would 'dedicate the next four years' to the county's push for glory.

'I didn't want the job just so I could say I was the Mayo manager, I want the job because I feel I have a lot to contribute and I feel I can make a difference. 'I didn't see a vacancy in it and I was kind of moving on with things. And I had no sense there was going to be a vacancy, I thought James [Horan] would stay on for another year or two, he was doing really good work,' said McStay.

McStay not focussed on 'big target' (Mayo News)

ON HOME GROUND New Mayo manager Kevin McStay is pictured at Hastings Insurance MacHale Park in Castlebar this evening. Pic: Conor McKeown. Mike Finnerty.

“That's the space I want all of us to be in. I just can't wait to see the draws and see where we are, see where we're traveling to. “They're the sort of measurements and goals that I have. Are we really pushing hard now as we hit to the end of December? “But the first measure I'm going to have of how we're doing as a management team is, ‘did we get everything right for our pre-season? “The idea that we have a big target, that's not anyway I’d go about, and I don't think it’s healthy.

LISTEN: New Mayo manager Kevin McStay holds his first media night (Midwest Radio)

New Mayo Senior football manager Kevin McStay has vowed to put everything into the next four years. Three weeks after being appointed to succeed James Horan, ...

Coach, selector with additional responsibility for county under-20 liaison: Liam McHale Coach, selector with additional responsibility for club liaison: Damien Mulligan There was a great sense of optimism in Hastings Insurance MacHale Park last night as Kevin McStay was accompanied by assistant manager Stephen Rochford and selector Damien Mulligan.

McStay and management to find best style that gives Mayo a great ... (Highland Radio)

The Ballina native has been appointed as James Horan's successor on a four-year term and brings Stephen Rochford, Donie Buckley, Damien Mulligan and Liam McHale ...

McStay wants to make MacHale Park a 'fortress' but knows talk is ... (Irish Examiner)

The new Mayo management are keen for the team to make Hastings Insurance MacHale Park “a fortress” but Kevin McStay knows it's easier said than done.

“If we get the performances right then this does become a difficult place because we know we’re going to have big support here. But it is on our minds because we will have championship games at home please God, so it is on our minds to make this a difficult place to come to. “I was down here on Monday, got a tour around the place from the staff, I was out on the pitch and we really have a stadium to be proud of.

Stephen Rochford's return to Mayo was 'quite simple' after seeing ... (Independent.ie)

When Kevin McStay first eyed a run at the Mayo job, he scribbled down some names. And for him, there was only one place to start.

The neat and tidy story is that Rochford, and indeed other members of the backroom team, is back to oversee some sort of unfinished business. And I’d like to think I’ll bring some of that back to the group as well. I’m happy to share that pressure, it comes with the territory. Kevin used a phrase there he’ll be a better manager next week, next month, and I believe that that’s what the last seven years in my inter-county experience has been about - being better from session to session, week to week and year to year. The Crossmolina Deel Rovers man is returning to a different Mayo now, on and off the pitch. And he revealed the decision to return took less than a day.

Rochford finds a good fit alongside McStay. Just don't call it ... (Irish Examiner)

Former manager is excited to be back in the Mayo fold, this time as assistant, and insists the make-up of the wider team made it a quick decision.

When Kevin came, as I’ve touched on, the fit for me was into the role as assistant manager and coach and I’m more than happy to be in there.” “I have a young family, I better say that’s a big job and it’s an important job but that has its demands as well. “The calibre of people he had on his list; obviously, I would have played and Damien would have minded me a bit when he was coming on the scene. "The game has moved on and even Kevin was talking about the pace of how games are coming now. The opportunity to come back and work with Kevin and seeing the plans that he had in place made that decision quite simple.” “I suppose in some ways I see what Kevin is saying in relation to the workload that’s in being a manager and having that space to be able to do all the bits that maybe I was a little blind to in 2015," he added.

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