New Down coach Adams is glad of managerial break

MOURNE ROLE…Gearoid Adams has been added to Eamonn Burns’s management team

NEW Down coach Gearoid Adams has said that he is looking forward to getting back into coaching after being added to Eamonn Burns’s Down management team.

Adams had served as Antrim’s joint manager with Frank Fitzsimons for the last two years, and admits that a coaching role, rather than a managerial one, was his preferred option after that experience.

“I had thought about going into coaching rather than management this year because the management side can take up a lot of time and effort.

“The football coaching will be the same but Eamonn can take the hassle that comes with management and I can concentrate on the football side of it.”

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