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27th June 2021
04:50pm BST

"The thing that's jumping out to me is you have 31 counties - I know Kilkenny don't play the football - but how can you have one competition for all of them? "I think the provincial system is broken. How can you have Donegal, who have to play four tough games to win the [Ulster] final, and then you have only two games in Connacht and Munster?" "The key issue is the provincials," the former Kerry star added, "because I don't think the provincial councils want them [teams] moved, and it doesn't make sense when the best competition you have is the National League, because you have divisions one, two, three and four. "Call it what you want - senior championship, intermediate, junior - but it's structured and levelled. All the best competitions have it. I don't think you're going to please every county. Some counties say they want to have a crack at an All-Ireland. Say that to Clare, Sligo, Wexford an Wicklow, who'll have to face Dublin afterward. "What is the point? How are you pushing on football in a county like that? "Hurling isn't provincial. It's basically Munster, that's it, and a couple of teams in Leinster [including Galway]... it's very, very difficult under the system Connacht have to allow all teams to progress."
As host Joanne Cantwell pointed out, two alternate championship structure proposals will go to a special congress gathering, later this summer, but the 2021 SFC rumbles on, and the big beatings are surely not over yet.
Meanwhile, one interested Sunday Game viewer was taking issue with another part of the broadcast:
https://twitter.com/JoeBrolly1993/status/1409133482056552448
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