Proposals to reform the All-Ireland senior football championship will be buried should they be taken off the table at Special Congress, according to the GPA's representative on the fixtures calendar review task force Ronan Sheehan. 

Tomorrow week will see the proposals being voted on with momentum seemingly behind option B, which would see the National League and All-Ireland football championship lined and beginning in the Spring.

The GPA have strongly backed the proposal ahead of the vote on October 23rd.

"If we turn around next week at congress and we say we need to take it off the table and we’re going to revisit it again; some of you have been around the GAA as long as I have and longer even, the reality is this will just get buried like many other papers and reports that the GAA have had in the past. And we’ll be stuck with the status quo,” Sheehan is quoted saying by RTE Sport.

"What I think everybody recognises is that the status quo is not working. It’s not working for players, it’s not working for counties, it’s not working for the GAA public and it’s not working in general for people because there just isn’t the appetite there for it.

"So, I think there are a number of people on the task force feeling very strongly that we should go for proposal B and that we should have probably sold it a bit more than we have at the moment.

"I understand why the likes of Larry (McCarthy) or Tom (Ryan) might be reluctant to be seen to be putting their stamp on something because they are trying to be ‘neutral’, but that doesn’t prohibit the rest of us who are on that task force from speaking out and saying that the work that we did and the hours that we poured over it, that we feel that it’s a is a worthwhile model, there is a lot in it to be recommended."

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