John Fogarty: Seán Kelly’s plan the basis for Gaelic football’s future

Nearly 10 years old, Seán Kelly’s All-Ireland SFC proposal remains one of the strongest we have seen. Plus John Fogarty explains how perception cost Davy Fitzgerald the Galway job

Seán Kelly’s proposal is nearly 10 years old but it remains one of the best solutions on offer, says our columnist. Picture: Inpho/James Crombie

To be fair to former GAA president John Horan, he didn’t have to present Proposal B last Saturday. With the split season officially commencing next year along with the first July All-Ireland finals, he has left his mark on the football year.

But ownership of the proposals was pretty thin on the ground, two members of the calendar review fixtures taskforce (Stephen Barker and John Prenty) were openly against it, at least two were going to vote for it, and the prospect of the GPA chief executive Tom Parsons, Cork CEO Kevin O’Donovan, Wexford chairman Micheál Martin or their fellow committee member Conor O’Donoghue commending the motion to the floor might not have worked as well as hoped.