Hurling can take lead and show football way forward
The other month inter-county football managers were each sent an 80-page document from Croke Park detailing all the proposals that various individual county boards issued for altering the football championship structure. One manager I spoke to was baffled more than he was overwhelmed by the deluge of paper. Did they really expect an inter-county manager to have the time to wade through all 80 pages?
As it turns out, he’s been spared the effort. After all those ideas, after all that paperwork, the provincial championships will remain intact. Within administrative circles there’s no appetite for an intermediate championship even though every county runs a similar competition of its own. There could be a tweak to the qualifiers but that’ll be about it. The status quo will remain pretty much intact.
