Mickey Harte says suggestions that a Champions League style format should be introduced for the championship are "a load of nonsense".

While many are calling for an overhaul of gaelic football's championship structure, the Tyrone manager is in favour of retaining the current format, reasoning that it is better than any of the alternative proposals he's heard:

"At the minute, this is as good as we have, and it's a lot better than we used to have. I have never seen anybody who has made an alternative suggestion, follow it through to its logical conclusion, and say this is why it's going to be good at this stage, at this stage, at this stage," the three-times All-Ireland winning boss told The Irish News.

"If there's something better, then we need to see it, we need to see it translated out to its conclusion, and then if it is the case that it is better, then we should all go there.

"This whole talk of Champions League stuff and all that there, I think it's a load of nonsense. How many dead rubbers are going to be in that there? Who would want to go and see games that have no meaning at all?

"It's always good to review these things, and now that there's enough years of experience to make some kind of valued judgement on what has happened to date and where it's actually heading at the minute. But I have never really heard anybody offer me a better alternative yet."

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