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Published 11:44 18 Jan 2015 GMT
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The GAA has gone for a half-hearted attempt at changing the championship by messing around with the calendar but ultimately it still doesn't deal with the problem of three of the four provincial series being one or two-horse races.
The football championship of 2014 was stale until the the drama of Kerry-Mayo and Donegal-Dublin and that was in August, a full three months after the race for Sam Maguire got underway. Moving the All-Ireland hurling final to August won't bother Brian Cody or Ger Cunningham or any players either. It's a date, it's a game and there is a title to be won. Brian Cody would play for Liam McCarthy in the snows of winter if he had to.. They have moved it before and the public will adapt.
If the GAA really wanted to change up its calendar then there was room to trial a new championship structure or to at least try and cut out the gaps of weeks upon weeks for the Munster and Connacht football champions where Cork/Kerry or Galway/Mayo may have to wait six weeks between games. Where is the sense in that?
It's interesting to see the recommendations emerge in the days after Joe Brolly's 'indentured slaves' comments and it would be interesting to hear his comments on such a proposal.
Counties will be given the chance to discuss the plan and if adopted it may be brought in for an initial two-year period.
The plan below shows how the GAA calendar would work out:
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