CPA chief Micheal Briody has called for the GAA to use this year's Covid-19 enforced fixtures calendar as a catalyst for change.
Briody is a big supporter of the fact that the club game has been put first in terms by Croke Park bosses and that the clubs have a defined window for games set in stone from the end of this month.
"Croke Park need to come down with central governance on issues like this," said Briody.
"For too long it has been left to county boards to decide themselves. "You have 32 different decisions being made and that has a huge impact across the board.
"Certainly, for the last 20 years we have had all these reports that have spelled out the issue and it’s the primary role of the director-general to implement policy and the president to support that to make sure that it is being implemented.
"That is not happening as regards fixtures.
"Within that timeframe we have had Super 8s, round-robin in the hurling, the tier 2 that was supposed to happen this year, and the only loser has been the club scene.
"There needs to be a definitive action to change this. There is change needed for 2021."
Briody told RTE's Sunday Sport that the last thing the GAA should do for next year is go back to the original inter-county calendar planned for this year.
"2020 will be the catalyst for change overall because the club season is coming before the inter-county this year, it’s highlighting the issue, it highlights the lack of governance," he remarked.
"We want to see Croke Park grasping this. We cannot lazily revert to the 2019 calendar.
"They need to implement change because the dropout is way too big across the association".
