Mayo manager James Horan says it's time to create a level playing field nationwide regarding club fixtures.

Horan believes the GAA should shelve the current system, whereby County Boards can arrange their fixtures as they see fit and one county team can be punished for having its players involved in club championship action in the build-up to an intercounty match while another county can benefit from suspending its domestic championships.

"I said at the outset, the club games at the weekend, none of our players got significantly injured but they're club championship games," Horan states in The Irish Examiner.

"Our training week before that club game, we had to reduce the training loads we put on players going into heavy club games where they will be targets for special attention.

"So you have to reduce your week the week before and then there was eight or nine players that couldn't train last night because of the weekend.

"So you lose significant time, whereas the Dublins or the Donegals, whoever, wouldn't lose that week, they're gaining a week, so it's a double whammy.

"We might lose, they might gain, so things like that if it was standard across the board it suits me down to the ground." Tweet

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