Pat Spillane believes the new inter-county football schedule is "too condensed" and that the championship is being "played off too fast". This year's All-Ireland hurling final will be played on July 17th, and the football final a week later.
"Bear in mind that you have 60-something games this year, you're going to have 90-something in the format [next year]," Spillane told RTÉ.
"I think it favours the strong counties, this concise [schedule] - the strong counties with the big panels, and the subs bench. I think it's very unfair against the weaker counties.
"You look at a county like Wexford. They were third-last in Division 4, had a great victory over Offaly, and then six days - six days later! - they have to go in and face Dublin, who had six weeks of a break, had a training camp in Portugal. Louth, no different. They beat Carlow, and seven days later they had to face Kildare."
'Kerry were at best adequate'
Noelle Healy and Pat Spillane discuss Kerry's comfortable Munster SFC win over Cork, as well as the Tailteann Cup
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Spillane wants to see a split inter-county season.
Pat Spillane: 'The GAA championships are speed dating'
"First of all, the All-Ireland should be played at the end of August," he said.
"We cannot take our shop window products - inter-county football and hurling - out of the shop window for six months at the end of July, and not come back until January.
"My solution is very simple: A split inter-county season. One year you have inter-county hurling for the first six months, you have inter-county football for the second six months.
"The following season, you alternate. Vice-versa, for the first six months when you have inter-county hurling, you then play club football.
"You have 12 month season with high profile games. At the moment, the GAA championships are speed dating. Blink and it's gone."
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