Carlow forward Paul Broderick has got behind manager Turlough O'Brien's stance that the Barrowiders don't belong in a B championship for weaker counties.

O'Brien recently said that it was "outrageous" to suggest that Carlow shouldn't compete with the top sides in the country and Broderick, who was named the GAA/GPA Player of the Month for May yesterday, said that there were players in the county capable of making any team in the country.

"We've players, and I could name plenty of them; the likes of Sean Murphy, Brendan Murphy, Sean Gannon, they're good enough to be on any county team," the told the Irish Examiner.

"They want to test themselves against the top players and there wouldn't have been the opportunity to play the All-Ireland champions or Monaghan, a side that won two Ulster titles in recent years, if that B championship was there.

"We didn't set out to win any All-Irelands at the start of this year, we were realistic enough to know that wasn't going to happen for us, but it was a huge carrot to beat Wexford, knowing we would get to play Dublin, and we pulled it off.

"On a different day, the Monaghan result could have been different. They certainly weren't far enough away from us to say that we didn't deserve to be there. That would be my counter argument.

"And that's only with one year of trying something that we have tried. I'm not saying we'll automatically progress and be better next year but it would certainly give us belief in Carlow that with more work on the system, and if we keep all our players and maybe get some more in, that we can be competitive against teams that are from higher divisions."

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