I’ve made an enhancement to the site to allow you to view the match history for a given manger. For example you can see Brian Cody’s impressive championships record (from 2003 on).

As the championship is imminent I thought it would be interesting to compare the managerial line-up now with this time last year. So here is a summary of who is in and who is out for the counties contesting the Liam McCarthy in 2009:

Antrim Terence McNaughton/Dominic McKinley
Clare Mike McNamara
Cork Gerald McCarthy Denis Walsh
Dublin Tommy Naughton Anthony Daly
Galway Ger Loughnane John McIntyre
Kilkenny Brian Cody
Laois Damien Fox Niall Rigney
Limerick Richie Bennis Justin McCarthy
Offaly Joe Dooley
Tipperary Liam Sheedy
Waterford Justin McCarthy Davy Fitzgerald
Wexford John Meyler Colm Bonnar

So there you have it - only 5 managers out of 12 survived to lead their teams into championship 2009. That’s 58.3% attrition rate - in the hurling managerial world, job security ain’t what it used to be