Butler: Start league before Christmas
Poor weather conditions for the Tipperary-Kilkenny clash on Saturday and international rugby on Sunday played their part in the low attendance figures but Butler believes the competitive hurling season starts far too early.
He said: “The fields are heavy and in early February, the hands are cold. Early in the year, you can get very bad days in February but a couple of league matches before Christmas would buy some time. Many people have been advocating that and you can see their thinking on it. We’re trying to structure everything into the calendar year at the moment so it will take a bit of debate. But when I was growing up, it was the way to go.”
