Kieran Shannon: We know the GAA has more pressing worries, but...

GAA offices at Croke Park

As much as we’d come to associate this time of year with glorious hurling weekends magnified by the sport’s highly satisfying new format, we may have forgotten the soundtrack that usually accompanied football around now: the din of complaints and demands for a “new championship structure”.

Only when it came to the proper time for such a discussion, there still didn’t seem to be enough time for a proper discussion.