DJ Carey believes the answer to the GAA's calendar crisis is not a split season - but a better coordinated one.
Carey is concerned that the inter-county season moved away from summer months when supporters want it to be played.
As part of the Kilkenny hurling management, he would prefer the club season - or at least the majority of it - played first so that the form of players could be assessed by inter-county managers.
But he points out that a lot of club players go away from the summer, returning in August for club championship.
"A split season would work out well, I'm not exactly sure how they would do it," said Carey.
"We seem to have a club committee and an inter-county committee and we seem to be all at loggerheads. I'm not sure if people are forgetting that the inter-county player is a club player first and foremost.
"So I don't see why we should be at such loggerheads. We should be able to come together. The main product in the whole thing is the player.
"The inter-county player is a club player and the players themselves should have a huge say.
"But are we looking at an inter-county season finishing in July and a club season starting, or vice-versa?
"Maybe if we were able to give three or four weeks to inter-county hurling and football, and three or four weeks to club and be able to do it that way.
"I'd like to see it co-ordinated like that so there is a certain time given and then you come back to it."
Carey says he's not sure how many supporters in Galway, for instance, would want to look at club games in Wexford or Kilkenny, but will want to watch inter-county action.
"So if inter-county is gone over the summer we're going to lose a huge amount of very good sport, very good hurling, very good football," said the nine-time AllStar.
"So I'd like to know what the plan is. How do you co-ordinate it?".
