Manager’s second coming has surpassed expectations in year one by getting buy-in from players, supporters and financial backers
As Conor Doherty was delivering the final blow to Mayo at one end of MacHale Park last Saturday night, a familiar figure was on the terrace at the other end like a coiled spring ready to go.
The net shaking behind Colm Reape was like a starting gun to Jim McGuinness. He was off, racing to his car down one of those roads that link retail units to one side of the Castlebar Mitchels clubhouse.