Armagh boss Kieran McGeeney complained about 'timekeeping' and claimed it shouldn't be controlled by referees after his side's All-Ireland quarter-final defeat to Monaghan on penalties.
He was furious that the game extended out to 97 minutes - allowing Monaghan the time to snatch the equaliser that brought the game to spot-kicks.
McGeeney said: "It's the timekeeping, it was the same last year. It's very difficult to take. The sooner they stop thinking that they know everything and take the rule from ladies football and get timekeeping out of people's hands the better."
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On the missed chances that Armagh wasted which will haunt them over winter, McGeeney said: "I think we should have just taken the simple score at times."
Meanwhile, Vinny Corey hailed Monaghan's 'greatest ever clutch player' as Conor McManus rode to the county's rescue again.
Goalkeeper Rory Beggan may have saved the two penalties that ultimately secured an All-Ireland semi-final spot.
But the four points that substitute McManus scored, including the 97th minute equaliser from a free that forced the game to penalties, added to his legend.
Farney boss Corey said: "We knew coming down that this was a 50-50 game even though Armagh were hot favourites. In fairness to Armagh, they would have known it was a 50-50 too. We've played eachother a few times in the last few years and they're always tight games. It just proved that way again, it was very tight.
"It probably looked like it had gotten away from us again when they got their last score in extra-time. I think we only had a minute and a half left of time but Rory got the ball down quickly, we worked it up the field and got the equaliser from a free.
"Thankfully for us, we managed to get the ball in the hands of Monaghan's greatest ever clutch player for that free, Conor McManus. He got us out of there by kicking that point.
"To be fair, there's a lot of belief there and we targeted being at this stage of the year, the All-Ireland semi-finals, from the very start. We knew with the new format that we'd be in the group stage and that we'd get out of the group."
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