Wexford hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald has called on the GAA to introduce a budget cap in the game, as the financial gap between counties continues to grow.
The Clare native was speaking after Dublin's sixth consecutive All-Ireland football title, with turnover for the county surpassing €2 million last year, while other counties have a fraction of the same amount.
However, Fitzgerald believes that the playing field needs to be levelled, and that a standard budget cap should be in place for all county boards.
Speaking on this week's SportsBeat Xtra, the Sixmilebridge clubman says
"I don't know if accept the money issue, that they (Dublin) have way more.
"The one thing I would say is that I believe that every team should nearly operate off the same budget. That's the way I think it should be.
"Whether it's 5/600,000 or 400,000 of a budget, that should be your budget for the year.
"I know in Wexford we sit down and we get a budget - and it's nothing crazy - but you have to work so hard to stay within that budget.
"I just think every team should have that; it should be level playing field across the board on that.
"Whatever the budget is, that should be the cap that's there for everybody, then nobody can be giving out about everybody getting an advantage or not getting an advantage."
That would be music to the ears of Colm Bonnar, who - despite a hugely successful period in charge of the Carlow hurlers, winning Christy Ring and Joe McDonagh cups - says the county is largely in the same place financially as it was before the senior success.
"There's such a small pool of talent among these teams (below Senior championship) that they do need to be looked after a bit better and encouraged a bit more.
"As much as they love hurling, we would have loved to have had some holiday after winning the Christy Ring or Joe McDonagh or Division 2 titles. Just something from the organisers or sponsors to say - because it is so hard for us to raise that kind of money - for the lads to get five or six days away together.
"I know with everything going on, people say 'you're priveleged to get a jersey on your back' and to get out and have that backup, but at the end of the day there is a difference if the likes of your Tippperary's, Kilkenny's and Waterford's win something they're taken away and they're looked after, it's when you're on trips like that, that's when guys really gel."
Both titans of South-East hurling feature on this week's SportsBeat Xtra, which you can hear from half 5!
