Calls for calendar rethink after weather postponements

Waterford manager Páraic Fanning has said the fixtures pile-up caused by yesterday’s Division 1A and 1B postponements strengthens his belief that Croke Park bosses have to change the GAA calendar.

Earlier this year, Fanning criticised the intense run-off of the Fitzgibbon Cup, and the inclement weather that forced Waterford’s 1B clash with Galway in Walsh Park and two 1A games to be called off has underlined his opinion that a competition that takes eight weekends to complete shouldn’t be run off in nine weeks.