18 text messages every GAA manager has received

If a manager's phone could talk. Or take screenshots.

It doesn't feel so much like running a team as it does a daycare when you take over a GAA outfit. Every manager will tell you that. The excuses that come through, the exchanges with players, complaints from members, they'd fill their own book. Here are 18 messages that every GAA manager has received (at least these anyway).

1. The one teeing up an early training exit

2. The crafty corner back

3. The no explanation, no reply guy

He won't be there. That's all you need to know.

4. The one who keeps talking until something comes out

5. The one who's being screwed over

6. The Junior B excuse

Not so much an excuse as it is a blunt heads up.

7. The bookworm

8. The guy with a girlfriend

9. The guy with a granny

10. The latecomer

11. The secretary

12. The parent

13. The one who's always injured

14. The chancer

15. The arse-lick

16. The holidayer

17. This guy

18. The only man with a reasonable excuse