Whereas once Padraic Joyce believed he was destined to fulfil a Galway senior management role after he finished up playing, he's having second thoughts now.
Joyce has coached underage with his club Killererin and this year is the Tribesmen's under-20 manager, so the two-time All-Ireland winner is on the kind of pathway that should lead to the top within his county.
But Joyce, 42, now realises what that entails.
"It's hard to know," he said. "I'ts something years ago that I thought I'd like to do, but this competition (under-20s) kind of suited me with the time frame of it.
"But if you go to senior, it's a different level and at the minute I'm very busy with my own business and work and young kids.
"It's something I would look at it but it's hard to see where a man would get time for it because it's fully full-time."
Joyce admits that managing at under-20 level has been an eye-opener, from 10 of his panel doing their Leaving Cert to weaning players off social media to communicating in the dressing-room and on the field.
"They're getting a lot better," he said. "They'd be a bit shy, they'd be afraid to tell a fellah to get out of the way or space but now they're starting to do it a bit".
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