Kevin McStay has dismissed the notion that becoming Mayo manager was a personal crusade for him.

Having lost out to James Horan for the role in 2014, McStay threw his hat in the ring again last month and was successful. The former Roscommon boss has assembled a high-profile backroom team that includes Stephen Rochford, Donie Buckley, Damien Mulligan and Liam McHale, and believes he wouldn't have got the job without them.

"There was a sense that I was chasing this job all my life or something and that there was something personal about it or a box I wanted to tick and it's not really that," McStay told the RTÉ GAA Podcast before he was unveiled to the media last night.

"I didn't want this for 'Kevin McStay'. I felt I had something to offer Mayo because of my experiential life, if you like, and the things I've gone through - good, bad, indifferent, highs, lows and all that - you have to have that belief that you can contribute and make a contribution and I really did feel I'm in a space where I've a lot of knowledge now, I've a lot of experiences and I've got the backroom team I wanted.

"I'd said to the chairman at interview, if any of those guys had said no, I didn't have back-ups. Those lads were either with me or I wasn't going to go."

 

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