James Califf reflects: ‘not many players get exposed to that level of man-management and coaching’
“I suppose we’re still coming to terms with the news,” says Califf. “It came out of the blue, it stunned a lot of players, to be honest.”
“I was more or less done the year before they came in. I just had other stuff on, after the first year they kind of approached me to go back as a goalkeeper. Subsequently, a joint meeting of the Louth panel and the county’s management committee was called for Darver on Monday evening. “It’s strange, we hadn’t even heard any whispers about it. We weren’t exactly sure what the story was because it was such late notice,” says Califf. “It wouldn’t be totally unusual for us to have meetings like that, last minute. It could have been about preseason or anything, so it just came as a shock to the lads.”
“When you look at Derry from the outside, they were semi-finalists and probably could have been in the All-Ireland final,” adds Califf. “Maybe that was the pull. Look, Mickey and Gavin are ambitious men, no matter what you say maybe they feel they could get the top silverware quicker with Derry, perhaps that was in their thinking.
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