Pat Flanagan was non-committal about his future as Sligo football manager after the Yeats County's exit from the All-Ireland race at the hands of Cork on Saturday.

The Clara man refused to speculate on what may happen over the coming weeks after last year's bitter experience with Westmeath when the county board opted to replace him with Paul Bealin, despite his achievement in winning promotion to Division 1 of the Allianz League only a few months earlier.

"After what happened last year, I don't know where I'll be," he quipped.

Flanagan reiterated his call for a separate championship that would give them so-called weaker counties something realistic to aim for.

"The big teams are always going to have the advantage, especially with all that's going on in terms of six subs, black cards and everything," he said.

"Unless someone has a serious look at where we are at, it's going to be a struggle. I think football is suffering big-time because the smaller counties, they don't have the belief any more. I know my own county, Offaly, are a very proud county, but we're lacking belief.

"When you see teams getting the beatings they are getting and not having something else to play for, it doesn't augur well." Tweet

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