Kerry All-Star Paul Geaney has given the thumbs up to the proposed introduction of a round-robin format at the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final stage.

Next February's Annual Congress is set to debate the proposal which is the brainchild of GAA Director General Páraic Duffy.

Geaney is currently in Dubai on the All-Stars tour and speaking to The Irish Independent, he said: "I'd love to play a big home game in Killarney.

"We have Munster Championship there but there's always a cushion that, if you do lose, you have another shot. But it would be great to have something like a knock-out game at some stage or a final group game where things really matter.

"It would be great to see some sort of a change in the format because as it is we had four games in the championship this year and spent eight months preparing for them."

The Dingle clubman doesn't subcribe to the theory that the Kingdom have an advantage over their top tier rivals due to the current lopsided nature of the championship.

"As a Kerry player, I'd be confident going into every game to beat opposition. Maybe in Ulster there's a lot more slogging to get through to a (provincial) final and then a quarter-final and semi-final with the nature of the hits and the nature of the training and the games on the body.

"But if you get through Ulster without injury you're in a great place because you've had all the tough battles and mentally you could only be in a great place having got through that.

"We're at a disadvantage in that sense. Mentally, you can't really feel totally satisfied unless you're winning tight games by a point or two."

 

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