John Evans believes Liam Kearns will be a success as Tipperary senior football manager.

Former Premier County boss Evans recruited his fellow Kerryman to work alongside him in Roscommon this year and is confident that former Limerick and Laois supremo Kearns can make a successful return to intercounty management.

"It's a good appointment for Liam in that Tipperary have won an All-Ireland minor and have two Munster U-21s," Evans says in The Irish Independent. "There's experience from the previous U21 win and there's the new talent coming through.

"You have the two of them merging together with an experienced manager and I used the word experience in that Liam has been out of active duty for about eight years but in the meantime he's done a degree and when he came on board (with Roscommon) he was looking to gain experience as to the present situation.

"He would certainly be up to speed and he's a great appointment for Tipperary and the betterment of football.

"His strengths are that he's his own man, he's got knowledge from the practical and football sides of it. He has come up through Kerry football and he's also now added the scientific side through his strength and conditioning."

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