Replying To LongfordSham:  "Well games this year played against two of our neighbours resulted in a 10 & 21 point drubbing, so I think being realistic, the gap is widening, especially as and no disrespect to them, one of those was another Division 4 team with a very small pick of players.

Yes, there is a plan outlined for a more sensible size competing across the 3 grades at senior, which is needed, but this is meant to be 2nd year under the same plan, with multiple teams up to the old tricks in that time frame of not going down, precedent is set at the end of this season for others to do the same.

Totally agree that any improvement is going to be a slow process and we just have to stick with it, we don't have the luxuries of many other counties with what's available to us. I think its definitely a case that we had been spoiled for about 2 decades with what we had at underage and senior. In that period from 2000-2020 we won 2 O'Byrne Cups, some big league wins such as Kerry and others, Won a Division 3 & 4 and were unlucky not to stay in Division 2, became a very competitive team in the championship (Primarily the qualifiers), with some notable wins i.e Derry, Monaghan, Mayo and some near misses against Kerry & Tyrone. But we also produced it at Underage too having won 3 Leinster Minor titles and playing in i think 3 U21 finals. All of that really is an outlier for such a small county like ours, during this period of time we would have fancied our chances against anyone in the country in a one off game, those days are long gone and maybe its just a case that we have reverted to the mean for a county our size?

Hopefully the lads can regroup and try boost the confidence for next year with some wins in the TC and hope that theres another lever in a lot of the young players in our group to fight in Division 3 next year , and take it from there!

Longford Abú"