Seán Moran: If you think this season needs an overhaul, take a glance backwards

Derry lost to Donegal last weekend, but that is not the end of the matter for them. Photograph: Lorcan Doherty/Inpho

For all the laments about the loss of autumn weeks and their unopposed opportunities for promotion, the consequence that means most in Croke Park is the sudden clarity of club fixture timetables.David Clifford: ‘You can’t let the result from the weekend affect the rest of your week, or else it’s a slog of a life’Tactical breakdown: Clare’s wide open spaces a stark contrast to Limerick solidity

Yet nothing was done to address the problem until the current timetables were unveiled two years ago. Talk, of itself, materialises nothing. When it happens, whether beating a larger neighbouring club or getting farther than you have in decades, that becomes as joyful a celebration as lifting a trophy is for a regularly successful team.

Nonetheless, these years of experimentation have brought such improvements. Go back that 30 years to when Mulvihill was still highlighting the unsatisfactory state of club fixtures.

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