Assistant manager Jim McCorry insists that Armagh's recent poor record in the Ulster SFC won't give them extra motivation to beat Down on Sunday.

The Orchard County haven't won a provincial championship match since Kieran McGeeney became manager in 2015 and are desperate to end their four-year losing streak.

“It’s there and it’s talked about, but it’s talked about more outside of our group than inside it,” the former Down boss told the Irish News.

“I know players will answer the question when it’s asked, and players know about it, but it’s not a topic of conversation inside the group.

“Within our whole set-up we haven’t said: ‘We must win this because we haven’t won the previous four.’ That’s not the psyche – the psyche is to go out and win an Ulster championship match in the year that you’re in it, no matter what happened previously.

“It’s there because everybody else talks about it. You’d be deaf not to hear it or blind not to see it written.

“But it doesn’t make a player play harder because we haven’t won a match in the Ulster championship over the last four years.”

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