Players' views: More matches the main attraction

Joe Kavanagh (Cork)

"Any step to bring in more games would be a bonus. The one big gripe players have about the current championship is the idea of one game and you could be gone.

"No one wants to start into the league straight after the championship either, especially before Christmas. And in the summer some games can be spaced apart too much which makes it unfair on some counties.

"There is still the problem with the club season and what road that will go down, especially down in Cork where you have a lot of players in both codes."

John McDermott (Meath)

"Football has wanted a change for some time now and this system at least means all counties would get more games. On first impression it comes across as a positive move.

"I wouldn't be sorry to see the league go. It has its place in developing new talent, but nobody really wants to play football at this time of the year.

"The true litmus test will come after a couple of years. The players would get more games, but it's also asking a lot of them, especially with all the financial spin-off that this system would introduce. The players would have to be better rewarded."

Niall Finnegan (Galway)

"It sounds very exciting and I'm absolutely behind it. The increase in games would be fantastic for fans and players alike and you still keep the knock-out games at provincial level which keeps the element of surprise.

"The most important thing is that it's a superior way of deciding the best team in the country.

"With 10 full houses every summer then you could generate huge funds as well which will eventually have to go back to the players.

"There could be trouble, though, with the B Championship in that football would become two-tier."

Seamus Moynihan (Kerry)

"It definitely can improve the state of football in the country for the simple reason that counties will get more games during the year. The case now where counties go through such hard training for just one championship game is hard. With the opportunity for 10 games then teams can only improve and there'll be more benefits and a higher profile for the players, although I still think the professional era is a long way off. "The majority of players that I've talked to certainly feel that the league needs a revamp. A lot of us don't want to play before Christmas and end up taking breaks anyway."

Joe Brolly (Derry)

"It's a brilliant system that is a huge step forward on what we have at the moment. No other premier competition in the world is run on a knock-out basis and this will benefit players and spectators for all the obvious reasons.

"Most of all it will end that tedium of training for seven or eight months and just having the one game. Too many players don't feel that's worth it any more."

"I don't see any disadvantages whatsoever. The players in Derry are buzzing about the news and it really is a very imaginative idea and something to really look forward to. I just wish it was introduced when I started out."

Cliff McDonald (Rosc)

"At first impression it looks like a good idea. It's hard to judge a team on one performance and the league system is a much fairer way of finding out who is the best.

"The 10 games shouldn't be too much either and I certainly won't be sorry to see the league scrapped. There's just no break for players between club and league and championship matches as they exist at the moment.

"Some people might say it takes out the giant-killing element, although it has to be better in the long run. It comes across as a big jump in how the championship is run, but football needs something like this."