Derry boss Damien Barton has called on more pundits to follow Kevin McStay into inter-county management.

Barton, a former commentator himself, praised McStay for leaving his role with RTE in order to join Roscommon's management team and says he would love to see it happening more often in the game. 

"I tell you what - this has been some experience for me. I was saying that to (selector) Tony Scullion on Sunday because we came down here and played Down in a challenge," Barton said in today's Irish Examiner.

"You know something - some of these guys need to get off their backsides. Fair play to (Kevin) McStay but he nearly got caught last Sunday.

"It's one thing and sitting and commenting as I've done in the past but when you actually deal with the demands that are not maybe exposed on a Sunday... it's what happens a month ago, a week ago, a day ago. These are the real things that are management and can have an effect on what happens on the pitch.

"I'm not on Facebook, I don't read newspapers. I don't go in for that because everybody has their own agenda and it's easy to be critical. I've never thought it was a good idea to be critical of players because they go out to do their best and yet they're exposed for ridicule.

"I would just love any of the pundits (to become inter-county managers) - and to be a degree they have done it at club level - but this is a different beast. I'm only a custodian. I'm doing my best. As well as looking after what happens with this year's team, I'm trying to bring players in and develop them. And it's easy to sit there and pontificate at times."

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