Bernard Brogan and Kevin McManamon have backed the GPA's proposals to revamp the football championship.

Speaking at a reception for the Dublin team at the head office of their main sponsors AIG yesterday, both players expressed their support for a shorter inter-county season.

"Give us more games but, if anything, give us a bit of extra time for recovery and for end-of-year and for lads to go away for a holiday with their families," Brogan is quoted in The Herald.

"The GPA have made a good stab at it. It's not an easy one. My two gripes are if you could make the length of it a bit shorter and more games of importance."

McManamon agreed: "Anything that makes the season shorter, for me, is a no-brainer. Absolute no-brainer.

"It's too long. The club players are basically being disrespected. We're amateurs. The Premier League is nine months, the [inter-county season] is nine months ... a lot of it could be whipped.

"There was four weeks between games at times and it's just too long, so I'd like to see smaller breaks. I don't know what their proposal is specifically but I'd be open to anything that makes that season shorter. I think it could be finished by the August Bank Holiday."

He added: "Give club players three months, give us six and then have your bit of time off. I'm involved in a lot of other sports and I'd love to sit down maybe for a couple of months and try and play a bit or do something."

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