Game for a fixtures puzzle?

Every year, in the run up to Christmas, Croke Park releases its Master Fixtures for the 12 months to come and more often than not it is digested and spat out by the masses within the blink of an eye.

With the All-Ireland championships three months in the rear view mirror, the next instalments six months away in the opposite direction, it is difficult to drum up much enthusiasm for a compendium of black and white fixtures.

And yet this document is the foundation on which everything else resides and one which requires almost constant attention.