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26th June 2018
07:57am BST

With three more rounds of hurling and football championships to complete before quarter-finals and preliminary quarter-finals, you have to wonder what the hell the play would've been if Meath had advanced a little further in the inter-county series.
Now, from July 22 until October 14, it is going to be bedlam for dual clubs.
July 22 - Hurling championship Round 3
July 29 - Football championship Round 3
August 5 - Hurling championship Round 4/JFC
August 12 - Football championship Round 4
August 19 - Hurling championship Round 5/JFC
August 26 - Football championship Round 5
September 2/3 - Hurling championship QF/Football championship prelim QF
September 8/9 - Football championship QF
September 15/16 - IFC/JFC
September 22/23 - Hurling championship SF
September 29/30 - Football championship SF
October 7 - Hurling championship final
October 14 - Football championship final
The Leinster intermediate hurling championship (where the Meath senior champs compete) begins on November 3 whilst the first round of the Leinster football campaign is on October 28.
A game every week might be doable alright but this is championship we're talking about - no let-up. It's also a championship game per week for 13 weeks with league fixtures to be slotted in there, other competitions, and let's not even thinking about the poor under-21 player.
Anthony Moyles of the Club Players Association commented that he expects to see more of this carry on.
"Expect more of this from plenty of other counties over next 4-8 weeks," he wrote on Twitter. "Hilarious thing is that a ]group] of [forward] thinking Meath Gaels got together last year and put a massive amount of time into devising new champ structures to avoid this [very] thing. "Of course, it was shot down."
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