Karl Lacey has a drastic solution for the club and county divide

Congress solved nothing, so now others are going to offer their solutions.

Congress rejected the abolition of qualifier replays and the shifting of the All-Ireland finals forward by two weeks, so now players themselves are going to have their say. Congress once more stuck its head in the sand, so now the likes of Karl Lacey are going to stick their heads above the parapet. The Donegal wing-back has a pretty drastic remedy for fixture congestion and the overloading of GAA players. Something tells us it wouldn't get through Congress. The 2012 All-Ireland winner proposes the split of Gaelic football into two separate streams - county players and club players. The All-Star defender is yet to return for Donegal this year after his club season with Four Masters dragged into late December and he believes too much is being asked of players. In an interview with the Irish Independent he says the lack of communication between club and county managers makes the current structures unfeasible.

"They might be manager for a team for two years and all he wants is to get the most out of that team for those two years. Where that player is in four years' time is irrelevant to him. That's the eye of the coach.

"You need somebody that's looking at the actual players themselves, making sure that player when he is 21 years of age, that when he is 27 or 28, that he is peaking.