Tyrone secretary Dominic McCaughey is proposing that the Ulster SFC be played off in a shorter time span to free up more time for club activity.

In his report to convention, McCaughey calls on the Ulster Council to scrap its policy of playing just one game a week.

"Club fixtures could be planned much more effectively if the Ulster Council were to confine its football championship into a much shorter period of time," he said.

"Additional dates would then be made available for counties to use for their club fixtures and this could easily be achieved by playing more than one fixture on every weekend in May and June, and by decreasing the time gap between the provincial semi-finals and final."

McCaughey claims fixtures difficulties will exist as long as there are fixture committees that are independent of each other.

"If simple solutions were available they would have been put in place long ago, but unfortunately solutions are not straightforward, partly because there are too many fixture-making bodies operating quite independently of each other.

"In reviewing club competitions for the current year it would be wrong to ignore the issues that must be addressed by not just the fixtures planners and the CCC but also by the clubs and the county teams' managers.

"The most pressing of these relates to Reserve football, where in 2014 there has been an unsatisfactorily high level of games not played for a variety of reasons."

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