Sour grapes in the relegation zone

If your team can’t do it on the field well then why worry if you can ask Congress to change the rules.
That’s seems to be the message coming from the managers of Westmeath, Longford, Leitrim and Sligo about the rule that if you fall to Division 4 then it’s sudden death in the championship.
Now no one is saying that you shouldn’t get a bite at the All Ireland they are just saying that if your league position is so poor that you have slipped to the 25th to 33rd worst teams in the country that you only get the one pop at it.
Now the managers of these sides are a very experienced set of guys, and they all knew at the start of this league campaign that they had to have their house in order otherwise they were going down!
I wonder would the same people be putting the case to Congress to scrap the rule had their sides been sitting pretty and on the way up.
I can’t see any of them shouting the odds on behalf of the rest if they had have been in the comfort zone.
If their teams are so poor that they are dropping to Division 4 then at least they have an incentive to get out of it next season.
It all smells of sour grapes.