Managers playing their own game

Few managers provide quotes quite like Kieran McGeeney. The Armagh manager rarely has nothing to say.

But to call him a straight-talker, as he would prefer you do, is to pay him far too much credit when some of what he says, like most inter-county managers these days, has to be challenged.

Thirteen days out of an Ulster quarter-final against a much-anticipated dustup with Donegal this Sunday, he attempted to divert attention to other counties’ use of brawn.