Justin McNulty says Saturday night's win in Croke Park will give Armagh's morale a pre-championship boost.

The Orchard County saw off Fermanagh to claim the Division Three crown and 2002 All-Ireland winner McNulty was pleased with the result, if not the performance:

"Any win at Croke Park is a good win," the former Laois manager notes in The Irish News. "While it wasn't an ideal performance, it leaves the team very well-positioned coming into the championship.

"There'll be no great expectations because it wasn't a sparkling performance but it was job done and it leaves Armagh coming in under the radar against sides that would be perceived as the big guns - Tyrone or Donegal. They will realise that they've a massive amount of work to do, so it has worked out ideally for us.

"If Armagh were travelling up the road after a defeat to Fermanagh, it would be a huge dent in morale and a huge dent in confidence and it would take a number of weeks to rebuild that. But not they can spend all their energy and commit fully to honing their gameplan and their tactics to prepare for either Tyrone or Donegal. Those are two very different places to be."

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