Brian Cody agrees that the All-Ireland SHC needs to be played off quicker to alleviate pressure on clubs.

Even though the current system seems to favour the KIl;kenny manager perfectly - he has led the Noresiders to eleven All-Irelands! - he admits that the time for change is nigh:

"Look, I'm not going to come up with a solution, I don't have a solution. But what I do know is this; the mix with club and intercounty is not as it needs to be," the James Stephens man says in The Irish Examiner.

"Club players are suffering and intercounty players are club players. There's 34 different lads on our panel and players coming in and out as needs be. But they are all club players, every Galway player there is a club player. The game is about club, club, club and it has to be. The mix is wrong, is all I can say about it.

 "It's not enough just to leave things as it is. The time to change in everything you do is when you are going really well and things are good and strong [Sunday's] match was a great game, the previous semi-final was a great game, last year's All-Ireland finals were great games. That's the time to see what can we do better.

"If you dilute the genuineness or absolute importance of the club scene - and people pontificate about it and they talk about it - but the All-Ireland championship has to be condensed into a shorter period of time in some way."

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