Dublin and St Vincent's star Ger Brennan has urged the GAA to shorten the playing season.

Brennan and his Vincents team-mates will lock horns with Rhode in the Leinster club football final on December 14th and the two-times All-Ireland SFC winners says his recent injury problems can be attributed to "chronic fatigue":

"I think the GAA really has to look at the fixture list in terms of having everything in one calendar year," the inspirational centre back says in The Irish Independent.

"The GAA will probably argue in terms of trying to promote the games throughout the 12 months because there's a lot of competition between GAA and soccer and rugby and that's fine, but they need to start taking players bodies into account as well.

"Any injury I've ever had has not been through collisions really. I've had a few cuts here and there but of the injuries I've had, it's more from chronic fatigue in terms of high intensity training all year round without getting a break.

"Myself and Diarmuid [Connolly], I don't know how long we're going now, 36 months or something like that. Diarmuid was the one who was playing, while I was doing rehab in the background, but you're still working hard trying to get back to playing. It certainly can take its toll."

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