Vote of confidence for McGeeney – who needs it?

Five games into the league and we are already in the silly season in terms of county managers.
Of course this year the managerial merry go round started earlier than most given that Teddy Holland didn’t even get the chance to lead his team out on to the field after the Cork players’ strike.
With John Maughan stepping down after two and half years at the helm in Roscommon after some very sharp criticism from fans Armagh man Kieran McGeeney is already experiencing the ‘vote of confidence’ speech from the chair of the Kildare County Board Syl Merrins.
The Kildare chair quite rightly pointed out that although the Lilywhites face relegation that McGeeney is only a few months into the job of rebuilding a side whose fortunes have been on the wane since reaching the All-Ireland final ten years ago.
It is a long time since anyone worried about facing Kildare and McGeeney has a big task in making them a force to be reckoned with again.
If I was McGeeney however, I would be more than a bit concerned that the chair felt he had to make comments backing him so early in his reign.
The Armagh man will know better than most that the chair’s robust defence is a signal that there is unease in the county and that a good championship run is probably the only thing which can keep the wolves from the door.
I think it’s nonsense for anyone to suggest that McGeeney is doing anything other than a good job so early in the season given the players he has at his disposal but in a country where you can be forced to resign without even a ball being thrown in it should come as no surprise.