PLAYER-managers often find the perks of the job are few and far between.
Trying to keep an eye on personal fitness as well as the overall physical and mental health of the rest of the team is a juggling act many find difficult.
Dungiven boss Eugene Kelly jokingly suggests it means he can pick himself.
“I don’t mind it, at least I’m guaranteed my place on the team,” he laughs.
Although no team selections have been finalised, Kelly will be somewhere in and around the forwards on Sunday.
Around him will be those typifying the age-old cliche of ‘youth and experience’, with the likes of Brolly, the two McKeevers and Geoffrey McGonigle alongside new talents like Paul Murphy and Cathal Grieve.
Joe Brolly and Kieran McKeever may be household names but like the youngsters, they don’t have an Ulster club medal. It’s safe to say they all want one.
Paul McCloskey, who’s also a keen amateur boxer, returns from a finger injury which has kept him out since the county final and Kelly confirmed that Eugene Lynch is also in contention.
VIOLENCE erupted last night before and during Manchester United’s European Champions League match with Feyenoord in Holland. United won the game 3-1.
But trouble broke out in various parts of the city in the run up to the game and there were more angry exchanges inside the stadium when fans came face to face in the stands after a partition door was pushed open.
Dozens of police officers rushed in to act as a buffer between the two camps when Dutch fans managed to push through a partition doorway.
Earlier around 35 Dutch fans pelted the windows of coach loads of United fans as they made their way into the stadium.
No-one was injured but a number of windows were broken in the disturbance.
Again police arrived just in time to break up the Dutch fans.
More than 100 Dutch police raided a pub before the game to avert another clash between rival fans. Officers swooped on the Fust public house in the main square where a large group of Feyenoord fans were waiting for approaching Manchester United supporters.
DARREN McDermott is getting used to breaking the mould. On Saturday he becomes the first Donegal man since the sixties to be part of an Ulster Railway Cup hurling side when the province takes on Leinster at Ballinasloe (1pm).
And with the surprising omission of any Derry players from the squad this year, the 29-year-old centre-half-back from Burt is also the sole representative outside the hurling heartlands of Down and Antrim.
McDermott, who now lives and works in Derry, is used to rewriting history after coming on as a half-time substitute last year.
He admits to taking a certain amount of ribbing from his team-mates about being a Donegal man.
“It’s not so bad this year,” he laughs.
“The ice is broken now after being around last year but I’d have to say that all the lads have made me feel very welcome.”
