Young player exit worry for Dempsey

LONGFORD manager Luke Dempsey believes there’s a risk of young players heading off to America for the summer after their teams are knocked out of the provincial championships.

With the last round of games in Division 2A of the Allianz NFL on Sunday determining the championship status (this year) of the eight counties which will be in the new Division Four next season, he feels that this particular element was agreed rather hastily.

“I wouldn’t agree with this being brought in so soon. It will be very hard on some managers. And I feel that it will also belittle the Tommy Murphy Cup, which it was never meant to. One of the things discussed by the managers at their meeting in Mullingar (early in the year) was the lack of communication between them and the administrators,’’ he commented.