Carrickedmond manager Eugene McCormack has criticised the new relegation system in the Longford senior football championship.

With the county senior championship being moved to 10 teams in 2027, it means that two teams will be relegated from the competition this year rather than one.

St Mary’s Granard defeated Carrickedmond by 2-14 to 1-15 on Sunday, which sees Granard now join Clonguish, Colmcille and Longford Slashers in the quarter-finals of the JJ Duignan Cup while McCormack’s men face drop into the relegation playoffs.

“It's hugely tough, hugely tough,” the Carrickedmond boss told Shannonside FM. “But, as I said, they should never come down to two teams being relegated. It's absolutely the best championship we've had in three years and we're changing it.

“We're going to go to 10 teams next year, that's why there's two going down. I don't see the logic in it.

“People are saying I'm only complaining because we're in relegation. I'm not. If you take after one game, Slashers were in a quarter-final and that's going to happen coming down the line again with five teams in groups.

“That's what you're going to have and you're talking about; oh, we're bringing it back to five teams to make the other teams stronger and stuff like that you know it should have never come down to that.

“That's like if we're trying to promote football in Longford and I've said this all along, that we're not doing it that way. It's not the proper way.”

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