Colm O’Rourke has once again called on the GAA to reschedule the Sigerson Cup in the interest of player welfare.

The Meath manager, who has up to 14 players involved in this year’s Sigerson Cup which gets underway this week, would prefer to see the third level competition played earlier.

“Something has to give,” he told reporters after the Royals’ O’Byrne Cup quarter-final victory over Louth in Ashbourne.

“I have advocated for a while that the competition be played in December and January. We would play all our pre-season games in January and leave our players with the college completely. I think that would be a compromise.

“The other compromise would be to run the Sigerson without the county players, but they are not going to do that.

“They argue there are too many exams in December, and it can’t go back there. But Jack Flynn had an exam for three hours on Thursday night. Mick Murphy has an exam on Friday night. Other fellows have exams on Tuesday. No matter what time of the year these students are doing exams. It was much easier in my day,” he added.

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