Paul Grimley has called on Armagh's supporters and clubs to get behind Kieran McGeeney.

Now in his fourth year as manager, the 2002 All-Ireland winning captain is under pressure to deliver a win against a depleted Westmeath side in Mullingar this evening after the Orchard County's surprise Ulster SFC quarter-final exit at the hands of Fermanagh last month.

"You expect to feel the wrath when the team disappoints and there'll be nobody more disappointed than Kieran, the management team and the players," former Armagh boss Grimley told the Irish News.

"But the disappointment has to be kept in check because in Armagh we have all sorts of innuendos about why players don't want to play for the county.

"If players don't want to play for the county, for whatever reason, that's their choice, they're allowed to do it, and what you've got to do as a manager is get up and get on with it and that's what McGeeney has done.

"He has scouted the county, he has taken in a lot of new players and the supporters would need to realise that and get behind him. There isn't a better management team in Armagh at present.

"A lot of names have been floated about Kieran is in there, he's doing the job, the players have total respect for him and are totally behind him. Everybody else needs to get behind him.

"Whatever issues exist, people should stand up and solve them. Clubs in Armagh can't go sniping behind the manager's back - if they have something to say, the place to say it is at county board meetings."

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