There's never a dull moment in Mayo football, and that rule seems to extend to Mayo football managers operating in other counties.
Reports reach us this morning from Colm Keys in the Indo that Kevin McStay's future as Roscommon manager is not quite certain, with McStay set to meet with the bigwigs from the Roscommon county board to discuss Roscommon's performance this season. This would be the ideal forum for McStay to reveal to the county board if he has any interest in pursuing the Mayo job.
The timing of the report here is interesting, as the hunt for Stephen Rochford's successor goes on amid public expressions of disinterest in the role from James Horan and Jim McGuinness last week. McStay's odds of getting the Mayo job were listed at 9/1 in the days after Rochford resigned.
Last week, Hugh Lynn, a spokesperson for the Roscommon County Board, told the Irish Star in no uncertain terms that Kevin McStay will be Roscommon manager next year.
"Kevin is our manager and will remain as our manager."
The tenor of Keys's reporting this morning however suggests a sense of uncertainty, even thought McStay agreed to stay on at least until 2019 after last season.
McStay was famously shafted out of the Mayo manager job by the county board after James Horan resigned the position following Mayo's 2014 All-Ireland semifinal replay defeat to Kerry. In his three years in charge of Roscommon, he's lead them to one Nestor Cup and the All-Ireland quarterfinal stage for two successive years.
