Flanagan calls for change to championship structure

Sligo manager Pat Flanagan has urged the GAA to ‘take a serious look’ at how the football championship is scheduled and structured.

Flanagan’s Sligo side exited the Connacht championship at the hands of Galway on Saturday. But, without a competitive game since their final Division 3 game against Roscommon on April 6, Flanagan said his side struggled to find the required intensity needed for summer football.

And the former Westmeath boss also called for the Football Review Committee’s proposed eight-team provincial system to be implemented as soon as possible.