Calendar season comes a-creeping

Timing and tradition. Ask any opponent of the proposal for the GAA season being completed in the calendar year and they would be the two major objections.

The tradition obviously pertains to the St Patrick’s Day staging for the senior finals, though most participating clubs in recent years wouldn’t mind those matches being staged at an earlier date.

While not as time-honoured, there would also be a tradition associated with the break that provincial intermediate and junior club champions have experienced through the New Year to January.