Former Munster Council chairman Sean Fogarty says it's time to get rid of the SFC provincial championships.

The Tipperary man believes Central Council should now step in and wrest control of the football championship from the provincial councils:

"I would have been a huge advocate of the provincial championships when I was chairman, but now I am looking at it from the viewpoint of a neutral and my belief is that provincial championships, bar Ulster, have had their day," he comments in The Irish Examiner.

"With the running of our championships, the buck should stop with Central Council. It doesn't. The four provincial councils are the all-powerful bodies. Central Council have to work with what they get and what comes out of provincial councils. That is the tail wagging the dog.

"Provincial councils have too much power. We have the same here in Tipperary with the four divisional boards. They have too much power as to how competitions should be run. The Tipperary County Board should be the over-riding body and the rest should comply. I believe it is the very same at national level. The provincial councils cannot continue to have the power they have at present.

"We won't get change, I think, until Central Council take over all responsibility for the running of all our championships. We won't get change while we still have the same power vested in the provincial councils. This is a turnaround by me. I have a different perspective as a neutral. You would be looking at it with tinted glasses when you would be inside in the tent."

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