Fitzmaurice reiterates call for overhaul of Championship

Eamonn Fitzmaurice believes the Championship is in urgent need of rescheduling and has given his support to former GAA president Sean Kelly’s proposal to restructure the competition.

The Kerry manager believes it can be run off over a more condensed timeframe with a later start. His team played two games in the space of just six days and will have waited four weeks by the time they face Cork in Sunday week’s Munster final.

“What I’d love to see done is the scheduling tightened in terms of the inter-county season and the club season. I’d love to see a club season at the start of the year and you get players up to a certain level of fitness.