David Burke: ‘Players just want to be playing week in, week out’

The 11-week break afforded to Waterford between league and championship is the most recent example of why the hurling structure needs to change, according to Galway’s David Burke.

The Tribesmen ended Waterford’s league campaign at the quarter-final juncture on April 2, with Derek McGrath’s charges waiting on a return to competitive fare until Sunday’s Munster semi-final against Cork in Semple Stadium.

Galway, by way of contrast, had two championship wins stashed away by the time Barry Kelly got proceedings underway in Thurles. And when you factor in Galway’s league semi and final encounters, they outnumber Waterford by four to one in terms of games played over the past two and a half months.