Colm Boyle isn’t happy with the involvement of a Galway man in the Mayo senior football management team.

An All-Ireland club winning player and coach with Corofin, Joe Canney has replaced Liam McHale in Kevin McStay’s backroom team. While stressing that he has “absolutely nothing against” the new selector, Boyle has questioned why someone from inside the county couldn’t be found for the role.  

“Absolutely nothing against Joe Canney at all, I don't know the man personally,” the former Mayo star told the Mayo Football Podcast.

"I obviously knew him as a player for Corofin and what he has done since in a coaching sense, I am extremely surprised that it is him that they've gone for. Maybe it is because I'm from the border, I don't know what it is, but bringing someone in from Galway just doesn't sit right with me into a Mayo set-up.

"I just feel like that if they were going for a younger, up-and-coming coach, why not look inside our own county? Why go over the border and pick someone from Galway, who let's be honest, probably sees this as a stepping stone to getting into the Galway set-up in a couple of years' time."

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