A return for Rory Gallagher was ruled out last week as Derry look for Mickey Harte's successor after Malachy O'Rourke went to Tyrone.
Anyone considering taking the Derry job will have looked very closely at the entirety of events of the past 15 months.
Read Next: GAA All Star football nominations revealed and one county that picked up silverware won't be happy Gallagher was the best coach in the country when he resigned last June in the wake of domestic abuse allegations, which he stated had been fully investigated, and which he refuted in a statement last week.
That they haven’t says a lot. The top managers and coaches do their homework before they take a job. Nothing is left to chance. The modern player demands more from their coaches, and if you’re not taking a chance on a rising name, then there are literally a handful of proven elite candidates out there.
It will take a serious man manager and football coach to smooth all this over and some of the big leaders in the Derry group to put it back on the players.
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