Rory Gallagher admits that Fermanagh's discipline needs to improve after they finished with just 13 men against Armagh yesterday.

The Erne County manager made no attempt to defend substitute Danny Teague after he received a straight red card for an unsavoury incident involving opponent Gregory McCabe, while Aidan Breen was also sent off on a second yellow card.

"I was disappointed about the straight red card. We don't want indiscipline. The two games we have lost this year, we have lost two men in them and, in the modern game, it's not often you see 14 men beat 15," Gallagher told the Irish Examiner after the drawn encounter in Brewster Park.

He felt that Fermanagh - who can clinch promotion from Division 3 by beating Longford next weekend - should have been further in front at half-time.

"In the first half Armagh set out to stop a few of our runners, but look, it was very difficult conditions. There was a swirling breeze, difficult to score.

"We had it in the first, they kind of had it in the second. Four points up at half time wasn't enough, we would have liked to have had it seven or eight.

"Defensively, we were sound. The game favoured defences when it finished seven-each. But we have got to punish a bit more."

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