Structure is great...once we went direct to the quarter-final, admits White

The 2022 All-Star is honest enough to admit his thoughts on the new championship format have been coloured by avoiding the preliminary quarter-finals. 

QUARTER=FINAL BOUND: Gavin White of Kerry poses for a portrait with the Sam Maguire Cup at the 2023 GAA Football All-Ireland Series national launch in Howth, Dublin. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Ten years ago, having won their final Division 1 game against Tyrone in Omagh, relegation-threatened Kerry quickly returned to their dressing room to await word of their fate.

Upon learning that Paul Mannion’s equaliser for Dublin in Ballybofey had condemned Donegal and Kerry were safe, a relieved Éamonn Fitzmaurice and county chairman Patrick O’Sullivan skipped out from their bolthole wearing smiles.