Larry Ryan: Won’t new Gaelic football structure leave counties leagues apart?

A lot of the initial impetus, you have to say, seemed to be coming from Kerry direction

FAMILIAR FOES: David Clifford of Kerry in action against Cillian Brennan of Clare in the championship. Is an end in sight to these regular Munster meetings of the counties? And if so, who will benefit most?  Picture: Diarmuid Greene/Sportsfile

Under the 1972 Fill Space Accord, every sportswriter in the land is allocated 10 columns per year proposing silver bullet fixes to the Gaelic football championship.

But mindful of the potential damage to the profile to Gaelic football — and the sustainability of newspapers — if the championship format was ever fixed and there was nothing left to talk about, I’ve never applied for the grant aid.