Jamesie O'Connor believes the seven-day turnaround for Laois and Westmeath after last Sunday's Joe McDonagh Cup final is unfair, while he would also like to see steps being taken to ensure the Munster and Leinster SHC finals aren't played on the same day in future.

Writing for Sky Sports about the scheduling of hurling championship games ahead of Sunday's All-Ireland SHC preliminary round quarter-finals between Cork and Westmeath, and Laois and Dublin, the former Clare star stated: "The new championship format has been largely positive, but there a few tweaks that ought to be made,

"Some of the Munster teams had to play three weeks in-a-row this year, whereas Leinster split round three. They staggered it over two weekends. That meant no team had to play two weeks in-a-row. That's one change I'd like to see made.

"Two provincial finals being played on the same day also needs to be looked at. There was 51,000 in Croke Park last Sunday. The Gaelic Grounds was rammed as well. Hurling people would love to see one of those games played on the Saturday, and have an opportunity to get to both games. I'm certainly in that category.

"The other thing that could be amended is that the Joe McDonagh finalists should have two weeks to prepare for the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final."

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