Armagh coach Conleith Gilligan has called on the GAA to move their All-Ireland SFC draws until after the conclusion of the provincial championships in future.
The Sam Maguire holders learned on Wednesday of the two possible groups they could be facing depending on how next Saturday's Ulster final against Donegal pans out.
While next year there will be no need for a group stage draw with a new qualifier-like system coming into play, Gilligan is hoping that any draws for that are held off too.
"Look, anything that takes away focus isn't good for the teams that are there," he said.
"I suppose there's eight teams that it's difficult for. It looks like you have to be fair to the other teams who are preparing, so maybe the extra time is good for them and whether the draw being made on Monday morning makes it more difficult for those teams - it probably does.
"But I still think that draw on a Monday after the provincial finals might have been probably easier for those teams in the final, for sure, because even if it takes away 1% of focus, it's still something extra to manage."
The draws are made early for logistical reasons and even some counties involved in finals have requested that route, but now the eight teams still hoping for provincial silverware are aware of the two paths they can take.
When put to Gilligan that avoiding defeat to Donegal is now even more important given it would help them avoid the Connacht champions, Dublin and his native Derry in Group 4, he replied that he didn’t feel there was particularly preferable route.
"Group 1 doesn't look any better, so it depends what way you want to get thrown off a cliff to a degree.
"Ultimately it doesn't matter in as far as now is concerned. Next Monday morning (after the Ulster final) it's going to be unbelievably important, because then you have to start preparing for who you have got, are you home or away, what are the dates and times, do you have to travel... so come next Monday morning that'll be huge.
"But for now, the Ulster final and a packed house in Clones is kind of where it's at.
"At the start of the year, if you were offered it, that's what you’d take all day long. And while the importance of it differs from what it was maybe 20 years ago, for Ulster counties the Ulster championship's still huge and it's still really important."
Gilligan, meanwhile, has revealed that Orchard captain Aidan Forker and All-Star nominee Niall Grimley are back in contention for the final, but Aaron McKay and Joe McElroy remain sidelined.
The nature of an injury picked up by Ciaran Mackin prior to the Ulster win over Antrim is still being diagnosed, but he is expected to be facing a spell out.
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