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Vincent Whelan

Joe Brolly trolls Mayo boss Kevin McStay with crude tweet

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 this latest tweet was certainly an eye-catching one.

The target of his latest trolling comment was new Mayo manager and former RTE colleague Kevin McStay.

Of course, there is nothing new about the outspoken Derry native having a dig at Mayo.

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They've been an easy target for many years having coming up short of that elusive All-Ireland title on so many occasions.

And now McStay is the latest man to put his hand up in the hope of guiding them to the promised land.

In typical modern inter-county fashion, he's going to bring plenty of assistants with him as evidenced by the below sheet from his introductory press conference which has done the rounds on social media.

It lays out the official titles of McStay's 12 assistants while also featuring a line at the bottom that states further appointments in the areas of strength and conditioning, performance analysis and goalkeeper coaching will follow shortly.

The extensive list of roles has drawn plenty of eye rolls from GAA fans online with Brolly among them as he sarcastically tweeted 'No gynaecologist?'

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.

And their dominance over football over the past decade is often credited with being down to having such a professional setup in various ways.

Brolly himself has never been shy of heaping praise upon them so the sad reality for Mayo is that cheap jibes like this will continue to be made about them until they do get over the line.

To that end, McStay spoke on Tuesday about how his large backroom team, headed by big names like Stephen Rochford and Donie Buckley, will aid him in getting them primed to make a serious run at Sam Maguire over his four-year tenure.

He said: “I had some people in mind on a page particularly this man Stephen (Rochford) and I teased it out through a third party and you had a sense this could happen.

“Then I had a list of backroom guys I wanted to have with me and there wasn’t a Plan B on that list.

“So once he (Rochford) said yes and a few more joined the team we were all in and that was very quickly, perhaps within two weeks.

“Collaboration. That’s the way I’m going to go about it. I would be daft not to use the experience and knowhow and knowledge around me.

“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.”

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