The All-Ireland winning Crossmaglen management trio of Gareth O'Neill, Tony McEntee and Seamie McGeown are willing to talk to Down chiefs about the senior football management vacancy.

The trio guided the famed Armagh club to back-to-back All-Ireland titles and O'Neill revealed they would be interested in sitting down with Mourne County officials.

"If the Down County Board wanted to talk to us then we'd sit down and have a conversation with them," he confirmed to the Irish News.

"At the same time, I can't talk for Tony. There's three people in the management team - myself, Tony and Seamie McGeown - and as a group we haven't discussed whether we'd be interested or not.

"We all have young families and it's a huge commitment to take on a county team.

"But I'm sure that if the Down County Board wanted to talk to us, we'd talk to them. It's manners - if you're asked a question then you go and answer it.

"If they want to offer us an interview, that's fair enough, we'll go and talk to them, but when we discuss it we might find that it's not for us as this stage.

"If they want to have a discussion then come and invite us in and have a talk with us and we'll see what happens."

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