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Published 17:37 12 Oct 2016 BST
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Andy McEntee doesn't think it's acceptable and he fears that boys will simply stop playing if it continues like this.
"You have guys working, working, working for one game and what have you got for it? It's very hard to take," the new Royals manager told the SportsJOE GAA Hour podcast. "Long term, you have to question whether guys like that will continue to play football. "How do you hold onto fellas over the summer when you say, 'look, we have a big game coming up in October'? "They (the four Dublin players in the All-Ireland final) played on the Saturday, we got together on Tuesday and Thursday and I had everybody with me on Thursday - for a game on Saturday. We had a large group of players preparing all year, or the guts of a year, for one game. "It's very severe. The way it (the Dublin championship) is seeded, by and large the stronger teams play one game at the start of the year back in April, and then you're waiting around until... well, if you're a betting man, you would say that Dublin are going to be in the business end of the championship every year. "Whether they go on and win it or not is immaterial. It means you're waiting around from April to September or October. For what? For one game."It's a strange scenario where he steps up to senior inter-county management and he's thinking that it might actually be easier.
"The truth is, managing a club team at the moment is way more difficult than managing a county team," he said. "You don't have your players, you don't know when you're playing, games are called off at the drop of a hat and it's very frustrating. You're trying to make demands on club players that are bordering on unrealistic. You're saying 'you have to time your holidays around this and around that' and you're not quite sure whether you're even going to be playing at that time or not. "There are a lot of things that are out of your control and out of your hands and it makes a very frustrating experience at times.Listen to the full interview (from 33:27) with Colm Parkinson below. The GAA Hour continues on Wednesdays for the rest of the club season. Subscribe on iTunes.
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