‘This championship is a disaster for the GAA’, says Paddy Joe Ryan

The new provincial hurling championship format is “unworkable”, according to Waterford County Board chairman Paddy Joe Ryan.

The Waterford official was vehemently opposed to the current structure being voted through Special Congress last September, claiming it would be “one of the worst decisions in GAA history”.

Ryan has seen nothing in the past fortnight to change his mind and believes four championship games in as many weekends is asking too much of players.