A week is a long time in management, especially when we begin to reach the crucial stages of the National League.
Honeymoon periods for new managers are well over and for anyone in the job a year or more the patience of fans and county boards wears pretty thin when no visible progress has been made.
John Maughan left the Roscommon job earlier this week, the abuse of an unruly element of fans ringing in his ears.
Kieran McGeeney, only months in to the job in Kildare, got the chairman’s vote of confidence this week and now with Longford at the foot of Division 3 the county chair felt it necessary to come to the support of county manager Luke Dempsey.
Pat Cahill kindly pointed out however that Longford have two games to get themselves out of trouble.
If I were Dempsey I would take that as code for two games to turn the corner or Longford could well be on the hunt for another manager!
Sport can be very cruel, just two months ago Longford came within a minute of turning Dublin over in the O’Byrne Cup after a great performance.
Coming up short in sport is nowhere in the modern era and Luke Dempsey must now know that he has probably a fortnight to get it right.
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