Tom Carr will be making no immediate decision on his future as Dublin football manager. In the aftermath of the weekend's shattering defeat by Kildare in the Leinster final replay, Carr is taking time to consider his options now that his three-year appointment has concluded and says he has no immediate plans to make an announcement on the issue.

"None. I haven't even got to grips with thinking about it," he said yesterday. In the immediate aftermath of the match he had told reporters: "I don't know what we have left to offer." Yesterday he wasn't changing his mind.

"It's still true. We did everything we could to prepare. It was devastating because, beforehand, we could never see anything but us winning the game."

In retrospect, he believes that inexperience cost the team on a day when they surrendered a six-point lead in 90 seconds at the start of the second half.

"It was a huge blow for such a young team," he says. "To survive that sort of a setback you have to have won something, to have built some sort of self-belief. That's hard for young players. To do it straight off at the first attempt, you need a lot of luck."

The team is quite young, with only five survivors from the side which won the All-Ireland five years ago and three players in their first senior championship. But the collective effort was poor on Saturday with a trailing-off after half-time and only one point added in the entire second half.

Carr believes that the team has improved greatly over the past year. "I think they're a great bunch of fellas, capable and mature even though they're so young. I've absolutely no doubt that they'll have a big future. Their attitude and belief, their whole approach has been excellent.

"Players like Jonny McGee, Peadar Andrews and Collie Moran have proved themselves talented footballers. I don't think anyone feels this team has gone down a cul de sac. They now know they're good enough."

The county board won't be coming to an immediate decision either, with county secretary John Costello now on holidays and the county panel not likely to be convened for at least another month at the earliest.

Meanwhile, in Galway, Matt Murphy - whose appointment also finished up at the weekend - hasn't considered the future yet. Yesterday he was trying to sit down and watch a video of his hurlers' defeat by Kilkenny in Sunday's All-Ireland final.

"It's hard to know what to do. I think we didn't do ourselves justice, but everything's in a bit of a vacuum at the moment, I'll take time to weigh up the pros and cons."

Murphy has had a reasonable year. The county won the National League in May and last month completed their first championship win over serious opposition since 1993.

The weekend's loss to All-Ireland favourites Kilkenny was, in the end, disappointingly comprehensive, but it was the team's first defeat in 12 months.

Meanwhile, Armagh will announce their team for Sunday's Bank of Ireland All-Ireland semi-final after training on Thursday. Diarmuid Marsden, whose summer has been curtailed through injury, has regained fitness and will be available for selection.

Paidi O Se will announce his team this evening. Kerry have no injury concerns.