For two years now, I have been saying the GAA’s ‘split season’ is an absolute disaster, and to tell the truth, I’ve often felt like I was wasting my time and energy. So I’m glad at least one former inter-county manager has come around to my way of thinking.

Let’s examine the reasons the split season was introduced. Undoubtedly, ordinary GAA club players weren’t getting fair play under the old system where the Inter County Championships ran from May until September.

A club championship game was fixed, then the county team were involved on a draw and replay and the club game went off. This happened repeatedly – first rounds of club championships were often played in May and it could be September before the next game.

Certainly, there was no........

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