While Jim Gavin and the latest Football Review Committee consider possible changes to make football more attractive, the most famous footballing brothers in the country, David and Paudie Clifford, are not for turning on the split season. The Fossa siblings say “you can still live a bit of a life" when playing club football as opposed to the regimental regime that exists at intercounty season. “Everyone knows about the new split season structure," David said in Killarney yesterday morning at the official opening of a new MRI unit by Alliance.
"You finish out your county season and then you move swiftly to your club season. In terms of the off season, it just depends how successful your teams are. “Thinking back to last year, we played Milltown/Castlemaine in the intermediate final around the 18th of November I think, so you probably had whatever was left in 2023 then, and then you were kind of getting back at it in January.
“It just depends on how well your club is going, and it’s probably again a conversation to be had then between ourselves and management, depending on how far your club has gone. "Generally, you want to get three or four weeks off the pitch.” The Kingdom talisman, who saw the Kingdom's championship season end against Armagh at the All-Ireland semi-final stage, says he loves the innocence of club football.
“The beauty of the club season, in my opinion anyway, is while you’re putting 110 per cent and everything into Fossa, you can still, of cou.