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28th August 2023
03:38pm BST
McHale is a brother-in-law of Mayo manager Kevin McStay and won a Connacht title alongside him managing Roscommon. They also won an All-Ireland club title with St Brigid's in 2013 but it didn't click quite as well this time around.
“It is difficult," said McHale.
"There were five of us there and the four lads had a totally different philosophy on how this team should play than what I had.
"And I was surprised at Kevin because normally we would be in sync.
"But I just felt that there is no point in me being there when I am so far removed from their thinking.
"I didn’t want to drag anybody down. I didn’t want to upset the flow of the whole thing. I thought it was the right thing to do.”
"All we want to see as Mayo people is the likes of Aidan O'Shea and Cillian O'Connor lifting that Sam Maguire over their heads."
Doherty asked McHale the question on every Mayo person's lips. Why
"The great full back Peter Forde asked me how can the basketball team win the National title with what ye've got, and we can't.
"The only answer I could give him is it's much easier to get ten players on the same page as it is 30/35. I think pretty much, in all the tight games, we lose them in the last ten minutes.
"That goes back to my time. In the last ten minutes, we're not able to score and the opposition would score two or three points to get themselves over the line."
Listen to the full interview here.
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