Former Dubs and Rossies boss knows what inspires the resolute Connacht men when it comes to the demands of a big occasion
“The whole thing had kind of imploded, so we had to go through a process of re-establishing a panel and a relationship between the players and the county board,” recalls Carr.
“I said, ‘Frankie, kill it, put it dead’. I wanted him to put it out over the endline,” says the former Dublin captain. “What does he do, he sticks it over the bar, turns and says, ‘Is that dead enough for you?’ It was as good a point as I’ve ever seen from a sideline, it was a bit like Maurice Fitzgerald in 2001.”
A Dublin fan makes his views clear after county chairman John Bailey used his casting vote to oust Tommy Carr from the manager's job in 2001. Photograph: Patrick Bolger/Inpho But in the spring of 2005, after losing league games to Fermanagh and Monaghan, a small band of experienced Roscommon players started to shake a few branches. Carr didn’t wait for the leaves to fall. He yanked up the roots himself.
While all that was going on, Carr was the father of four young kids – all of whom have now grown up to be exceptional sporting talents in their own right. “Whereas he’s thinking, ‘I’m on my own, I have to book my own flights, pack my own bags, organise to get a rub somewhere,’ all those things. And I think that probably gets to you at some stage.”
“You are kind of at a stage now in life where there is nothing stopping you. You are calmer, in the past I might have been a bit OTT, all fire and brimstone, I’d be more measured now. If something challenging came up, of course you’d consider it.” “They wanted to stay in Dublin, go out that night. I remember thinking, ‘We’re in trouble here, these boys have downed tools’. The expectation seemed to be that this would be our last game of the year so let’s have a bit of fun afterwards.
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