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Published 20:10 17 Jul 2016 BST
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Again, this is a universal problem not just applicable to football.
The Champions League - the format we're holding up so dearly - never gets going until the knockout stages. Tennis grand slams generally aren't interesting until the second week and let's not even get started on the Rugby World Cup.
If you want to include every team, you're going to have mismatches.
The only alternative is to start chopping the championship four and five ways and prioritise the league but you'd be doing well to convince inter-county players to train every night of the week for a Division Four championship.
Dublin's dominance is worrying, but it's not going away. And Westmeath manager Tom Cribben had a few reality check words for people who were hoping it might.
"They're doing too much good work at underage," he said. "They have super coaching structures in place. They have structures in place and they've learned now. They'll only get better. "The rest are going to have to get up to them, they're not going back. People are coddling themselves thinking this team is going to fall away in a year or two or three. They're coddling themselves. Everyone else is going to have to get up to Dublin's standard. "It's not all about money like everyone says. You have to coach at underage. Look at Kildare, that's three Leinsters in four years at minor level and that's where you have to start the work. They are doing the work at underage and everybody knows that. This isn't rocket science. You have to bring them up winning at underage and carry it the whole way through. "Dublin won't come back. They'll only get better."Putting them into a different type of provincial championship will do damn all to stop them. As Cribben says, everyone else is just going to have to get better.
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