Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney reckons there’ll be further changes to the All-Ireland senior football championship’s format.

McGeeney’s men bowed out of the Sam Maguire Cup race on Saturday after a 4-18 to 0-17 hammering at the hands of holders Kerry at Fitzgerald Stadium.

The loss marked the Ulster champions’ second game in six day, having lost to a late Louth goal in Inniskeen the previous Sunday, and, speaking to media after the defeat in Killarney, McGeeney made his thoughts on the championship’s current structure clear.

“It’s very hard to make your personal thoughts known when you get a hiding like that because I think we had a good thing,” he is quoted saying by BelfastLive.co.uk.

“I thought we had a good thing, we moved the system because game receipts had fallen below sponsorship, so as usual it’s an accountancy procedure in GAA, and I still think the Round Robin thing is a good system, but everyone has played the same system, so I’m not giving out about this year.

“I just think the one we had - it showed, because so many teams had developed, particularly ourselves and Westmeath, Cork, all the teams over the last couple of years that have been able to get those three or four (games) so I just think it was a better system, and I think eventually we will probably move back.

“The sponsors will probably see that if there’s 20-25 per cent less games then we’ll give you 20 per cent less money and I’d say that will probably change their mind.”

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