GAA director-general Paraic Duffy admits the GAA has no control over managers who name 'dummy teams'.

Duffy last week called on all county managers to co-operate with the media in promoting the championships, but this hasn't stopped some counties from continuing to release bogus teams. Kevin Keane and Darren Coen were named to start for Mayo against Galway last Sunday, but were replaced by Tom Cunniffe and Alan Dillon respectively before throw-in.

"Even if you had a rule, it would be impossible to enforce it since a manager can always say that he had to make changes between announcing the team and match day due to injuries. Even if that's not the case, how do you prove it?" the Monaghan man is quoted as saying in the Irish Independent.

"We proposed a motion for Congress, requiring counties to name the team four days ahead of championship games but it wasn't passed.

"Most county boards did a great job recently in organising open days where the public met players but when it comes to issuing teams they can only release what the managers give them.

"It seems some team managers think there's some advantage to be had by not giving out the correct team. We're not happy about it but there's nothing we can do other than appeal to them not to do it. We contact counties every Monday, urging them to issue teams as early as possible in order to help promote the game which is in everybody's interests. But obviously there's a concern when wrong teams are issued." Tweet

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