RTE GAA pundit Lee Keegan backs former star teammate to succeed Kevin McStay as next Mayo manager
McStay's three-year term
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The 41-year-old made his first inroads into coaching with Mayo's Under-20s
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Keegan played alongside him from 2011-2019 when Moran retired from inter-county football
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Mayo were dumped out of the Championship at the group stage due to a last-gasp loss to Donegal
Two-time boss James Horan
Moran has previously been a senior inter-county boss with Leitrim for three seasons before
The Westport clubman has heard that Moran's been well-received in the Monaghan camp and reckons he is ready to take the big step that would be leading his own county.
While discussing where the Green and Red ought to go on talkSPORT Ireland's
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He said: 'I think Andy Moran would be a nice fit. I think lads know him, they respect him.
"And even listening to the Monaghan group this year, in particular, he has an energy. That kind of affection and emotion towards players, that's hard to replicate sometimes.
'I think Andy is very emotionally attached to the players, and he gets the best of them. So for me, he'd be a great candidate.'
Austin O'Malley and Ray Dempsey have also been bandied about as potential candidates.
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It was reported by Mayo News on July 9 that the county board were aiming to have a new manager installed within the next five-seven weeks.
Whomever takes over, it's likely one of the first measures they take is to gauge whether they can tempt Cillian O'Connor to rejoin the panel.
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He outlined: 'I didn't say anything (to make the news public), I think someone did an interview and said that.
'I didn't put anything out. I rang the management, and met the management. I rang a few senior and younger players and told them.
'I met Kevin McStay in the autumn and we had a few good, frank conversations.
"Kevin was keen in the end, when he had accepted I was going, to ask me not to draw a line under anything and not to be definitive.
'If he had asked me to draw a line, one way or the other, I would have been happy to go and leave it at that. I wasn't going to put out a statement anyway.'
Reflecting on his new vantage point this summer from the sidelines rather in the thick of it, he added: 'It's been different obviously. I'd say elements of it have been enjoyable.
"It's been nice in a way too, first time since 2011, and even including Minor and Under-21 since 2008 to be outside it.
"To step off that roller coaster for a bit and enjoy it a bit more and appreciate the skills that everyone's showing at the weekends and not be as intense and uptight.
'When you're watching games, it could be two teams at the other side of the country, but if we're still in the Championship, you're thinking 'if we get one of these now, what am I gonna do?'
"It's nice to be able to breathe a bit.'
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