Players kept me in my job, says Cavan boss Carr

TOMMY CARR believes the support he received from his players in the face of an administrative heave-ho last summer was a line in the sand from a squad that is sick and tired of the county’s managerial merry-go-round.

A vote of no confidence was passed against Carr at a meeting of the Cavan County Board after last year’s All-Ireland qualifier loss to Wicklow but star forward Seanie Johnston was one of the players to subsequently speak up for the former Dublin captain.

Carr is now in his third year at the helm of a county which has won just one senior provincial title in 41 years – and was that back in 1997. They face Fermanagh in the last of the Ulster quarter-finals at Breffni Park on Saturday.