JASON RYAN resigned from the position of Wexford football manager last night. It was a job Ryan held since November 2007, and he guided his adopted county through five varying successful championship campaigns.

Their best season under Ryan was in 2008. Ryan was still in his early thirties as Wexford recovered from a heavy defeat to Dublin in the Leinster final to reach the All-Ireland semi-final by beating Down and Armagh. They lost to eventual champions Tyrone.

The next year, 2009, was a dip in progress, but a qualifier victory over Galway in 2010 realigned the upward trend of Wexford under Ryan’s guidance.

However, last year was the most disappointing as after running Dublin close in the provincial decider, losing by three points, they were denied progress to an All-Ireland quarter-final by a controversial Limerick point in injury time. This summer, yet again, saw them come up marginally short against Dublin before Tipperary caught them cold in Thurles two weeks later.

Ryan is a respected coach in both hurling and football, he guided Clongeen to a Wexford county football title in 2007, and the Waterford native will be considered for several vacant inter-county position this winter.

Elsewhere, Kieran McGeeney is to have another meeting with Kildare GAA chairman, John McMahon, before a decision is made on whether or not he will see out his second three-year term as senior football manager in 2013.

There had been speculation that McGeeney’s reappointment would be confirmed at last night’s monthly board meeting after McMahon had indicated last week that a decision would be made very shortly.

Instead, the pair are to have an “imminent” meeting but the issuing of a detailed breakdown on team expenses last night could well pave the way for McGeeney to stay on. It is understood that McGeeney indicated his desire to McMahon that these figures would be made public, as he has been angered by suggestions that the senior set-up is at the root of Kildare’s financial problems.

A meeting of the county executive with the chairmen and secretaries of Kildare’s clubs last week revealed that €525,000 had been spent by the county board on its seven teams this year, with the under-21 hurlers still to play their All-Ireland ‘A’ final.

That is lower than the €600,000 that had been budgeted for and significantly less than the €750,000 spent in 2011.

Of that figure of €525,000 spent in 2012, €270,109 was spent on the seniors.

Mayo’s Andy Moran underwent an operation in the Santry Sports clinic yesterday to repair his ruptured cruciate knee ligament.

The Mayo captain and All Star in 2011 sustained the injury in the quarter-final victory over Down and was already ruled out of the All-Ireland final against Donegal on September 23rd.

He not expected to resume playing football until April, which is the latter part of next year’s National League. Moran was replaced in the Mayo full forward line for last Sunday’s defeat of Dublin by Enda Varley but the latter was forced off on 45 minutes after sustaining a bloodied nose.

Both Varley and Lee Keegan (dislocated finger) are expected to train this week. Keegan will not be able to take contact for a number of sessions.