Sean Kelly says weaker counties must be given realistic targets

Former GAA president Seán Kelly says the Association must prioritise the state of the All-Ireland senior football championship and scrap their plans for a calendar year.

Kelly in 2012 set out his blueprint for the championship, maintaining the provincial campaigns but thereafter splitting them into two 16-team straight knock-out competitions. The nugget for the best two teams in the ‘B’ contest would be guaranteed spots in the ‘A’ equivalent the following year. All provincial winners would qualify for the ‘A’ championship as well as the best placed teams in the National League.

He is also outspoken against the calendar year and now believes it should be shelved with focus directed onto a restructuring of the SFC.