Jason Sherlock says he can understand where Jarlath Burns was coming from when he suggested last year that inter-county managers could be awarded ‘contracts’ in the future due to the full-time nature of the role.

Speaking to Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1, the Dublin cult hero commented: "I get why the GAA are looking at that. I always looked at Jim Gavin and then I was involved with Dessie Dolan with Westmeath for a couple of years and it's such a big commitment from a time perspective. You only have to look at the amount of vacancies there are with GAA managers now at the moment.

"At the end of the day, there's very little reward because a lot of these counties, with respect, are never going to be competitive at the highest level with the current structures that are there.

"I can understand why we're looking at it and it probably does need to be bottomed out because I'm not sure how sustainable it is for people to have a working 9-5 role and be a manager of an inter-county football or hurling team."

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