Rookie Flanagan Must Grasp 'Bluffer's' Guide to the Championship in Double Quick Time [Eire Region]

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PAT FLANAGAN is under no illusions that inter-county management is anything but a ruthless and cutthroat business. Brendan Hackett's decision to walk after a player coup in Westmeath paved the way for the former selector to parachute into the top job but he took it on with his eyes open.

His opposite number has eight All-Irelands to his name, not to mention provincial titles with three different counties, yet Mick O'Dwyer's track record couldn't protect him from the jibes of Colm Parkinson, the former Laois player having the gumption to describe him as a 'bluffer'.

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Rookie Flanagan Must Grasp 'Bluffer's' Guide to the Championship in Double Quick Time [Eire Region]

So now, barely five weeks into senior management, and squaring off against the most decorated manager in the history of the game, Flanagan knows all about modern pressures of the job. And he can understand w...

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