Assistant manager Jim McCorry admitted it was a relief for Armagh to end their four-year losing streak in Ulster.

Yesterday's 2-17 to 3-13 extra-time Ulster SFC quarter-final victory over Down was the Orchard County's first in five attempts under Kieran McGeeney.

"Everybody talks about records, Kieran losing four (Ulster championship games in-a-row as Armagh manager), 60 odd years since Down have been beaten here (by Armagh), all these different records," McCorry said.

"Win one game and a lot of people think that's them gone and they're forgotten about, all that talk, 'Would he stay on? Would they keep him on?'

"Within the camp people don't think like that, footballers don't think like that. They don't think about two years ago, 'We must go out and get revenge here'. They go out and think about what their preparation has been and what performance they must put out.

"I'd rather be here talking about the win rather than trying to defend a fifth successive championship game lost so from that point of view there will be relief that we won the championship match."

McCorry singled out Andrew Murnin - who had been out with a hamstring injury - for praise after he came off the bench to score 1-1.

"We knew there was 10 or 15 minutes in him, he is superb and can turn a game on a sixpence. It's a really strong benchy and that was probably the difference in the end," he added.

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