Kieran Shannon: Too many safety nets for top sides but Tailteann Cup may offer a real chance to grow

Cork manager Keith Ricken speaking to his players after the Allianz League defeat to Galway at Páirc Ui Chaoimh. The Tailteann Cup could prove to be the kind of place and competition that could allow a side to regroup and grow and win again, says Kieran Shannon.

AND so just like that it’s ushered through by the kind of method and winning margin Putin would be impressed by: a new football championship structure.

After all the airtime and column inches and indeed passion and imagination devoted to such a topic through the years, especially leading up to what was a genuinely special congress last autumn, there was barely a word of resistance or even reportage concerning the Proposal Green that breezed through Congress proper last weekend in Bekan.