Of course, Healy has much experience of being in and around management teams at the highest club and inter-county levels which will be hugely important reference points for him.

However, it is obvious he is extremely keen to keep supporters’ toes on the ground by illustrating how he, his management team and players face an “enormous challenge” speaking in the Irish Examiner today.

And Healy is evidently setting the bar low, in the public domain anyways, by highlighting that retaining Division 1 status is the main port of call for the Rebels in the secondary competition next year.

The Naomh Abán clubman is bound to work from a base such as that, as most new managers do in this day and age.

Still, it seems he is assembling a solid backroom team with the additions of Paudie Kissane and Conor McCarthy potentially very productive inclusions.

“Paudie is very strong in the strength and conditioning area,” Healy said. “He’s somebody who is excellent in what he does and he’s somebody that you can trust. Conor McCarthy is a very professional man and Morgan O’Sullivan is a man I know will bring an awful lot to the table as well.

He’s won a county championship with Castletownbere and is a sergeant by profession in Macroom and he’s someone who is well in tune with what’s going on.

“I’m not going to change the world or anything like that. We will develop it as we go along is probably the best way to put it. The game is changing, it’s evolving and you’re trying to keep up with it. You’re looking at the clubs now and they’re setting the standards. They’re playing a free, fast-flowing game and we’d be looking to play something similar.”

In an ideal world, one where the county board are genuinely open to an outside senior inter-county manager and he was actually available, Tony McEntee would have been the preferred choice for the job.

Of course, it is essentially pie in the sky territory to seek such a shrewd appointment.

However, McEntee’s capacity to engineer gameplans so effectively is exactly what Cork requires to move another step or two forward in the coming seasons.

We all saw how Barry O’Driscoll’s stationing at wing-back against Kerry in the Munster SFC final in Killarney nearly set Cork up for a genuine tilt at an All-Ireland final place this year via a manageable route as Brian Cuthbert and co came so close to unhinging Kerry.

McEntee’s tactical nous would have centred around concocting gameplans to also distract opponents and it is hoped Healy falls into a similar bracket during his reign.

It must be said, after John Cleary pulled out of the race I was stunned Ronan McCarthy or Ephie Fitzgerald weren’t given the post, particularly the former in the circumstances.

As for Ned English, even though the man has so much to offer the harsh reality is his straight-talking approach pre- and post-matches may not have endeared him to the powerbrokers within Cork GAA and so he never really had a chance of getting the job, rightly or wrongly.

Certainly, McCarthy’s presence will add a fresh dynamic to the backroom team.

Tactically, the O’Donovan Rossa clubman always seems to be on the right wavelength while discussing the game in its present guise and he will be able to relate to the players effectively.

Kissane, of course, writes brilliantly in the Evening Echo on a regular basis and his coaching attributes will be hugely popular among the panel.

Healy, too, is adamant Morgan O’Sullivan will complement the qualities of those men with grace and astuteness.

Despite all of that, Healy should be encouraged to try and add a character from a city club to complete his managerial team.

The importance of finding a balance between county and city representatives within the selection group is paramount.

Having an all-county-based group leading the ship may be counter-productive.

The whole Cork city-west Cork divide is no secret, as petty and all as it is, so all stakeholders involved - including those on the terraces - need to put all of that ‘politics’ aside from this point on to ensure actual collective progress can be made.