Cut 13-day rule to give clubs fair play, says Tipp club

Loughmore-Castleiney’s motion aimed at shortening the 13-day rule will end the second-class treatment of club players, according to the club’s chairman Dick Egan.

The Tipperary club have proposed reducing from 13 to eight the number of days inter-county players aren’t available to their club before a championship game, and lowering from 20 to 13-days their unavailability before the All-Ireland final.

Egan said amending the 13-day rule would end the practice of inter-county managers dictating club schedules and the culling of club games during the height of summer.