‘Grave doubts’ in Kerry over GAA calendar
“By insisting that the All-Ireland Club championships be completed by end of calendar year, there will be no option but to shorten the life span of county championships and reduce number of games. What is progressive about this, I don’t know,” Kerry secretary Peter Twiss will tell next Monday’s annual convention in the Kingdom.
He added: “Knocking clubs out of club championships earlier than needed serves no purpose; it only makes it all that much harder to keep interest in the club going. As the saying goes, ‘Where complex problems involving human beings are involved, the most obvious and simple solution is usually the wrong one.’ It is good to have reviews and fresh thinking, but the people left to solve the day-to-day issues with fixtures — i.e. the CCCs around the county and at provincial and national level — should be consulted a lot more before ideas become policy.”
