Former Tipperary player and ex-Offaly and Galway manager John McIntyre has questioned the wisdom of Eamon O'Shea's decision to invite Kieran McGeeney to join his Premier County backroom team.

Speaking to Tipp FM, McIntyre said he was 'surprised' by O'Shea's recruitment of the Armagh All-Ireland winning captain and former Kildare manager.

"I was a bit surprised Eamon brought in Kieran McGeeney. I also think there are too many lieutenants around the Tipperary set-up at the moment.

"Eamon has to stand up on his own two feet, for better or worse. I know from my time with Offaly and Galway that the more people you have around in the management set-up, the more time you have to create for their involvement.

"Sometimes your own views can be compromised. Of course, it's the in-thing at the moment because Clare had a huge backroom team last year, the Dublin footballers the same.

"But the difficult thing with that is that every team becomes a hostage to having this overgrown and overblown management set-up." Tweet

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