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Some extreme suggestions for fixtures; We need to do something now.

All club football at all levels within each county to be completed before All-Ireland weekend.
Insurance no longer valid after this date.
Only Provincial and national club fixtures to be played from then until St. Patrick's Day.

Schools and universities have priority access (includes training as well as games) to all players not involved in provincial or national club championships from All-Ireland weekend until St. Patrick's Day.

Club and county priority access begins after St. Patrick's Day and finishes before All-Ireland weekend.
comments welcome.

I am now convinced that the naysayers have been right all along. For years I tried to promote the idea that we can improve players' decision-making on and off the ball, their movement off the ball, their positional sense, their timing of runs and their abilities to adapt to different game plans and attacking options. The truth is that for 90% of players we cannot!!
They bring with them their own inbuilt cerebral limitations for these skills and we can labour for as long as we want and convince ourselves we see glimmers of hope, but the fact is that they will revert to type more often than not.
Just get them as fit as possible, as well-conditioned as possible and as technically proficient as possible and forget the rest.

Heard an interesting point of view expressed by a group of experienced and successful coaches last night. The claim was that with footballers starting at age 5 or 6 nowadays a player's traits are firmly in place by the age of 13 or 14 and, in most cases, cannot be changed. At that stage the team player may already be identified - and the athlete, the lazy player, the accurate passer, the game reader, the head down solo runner, the big ego and the scorer. Attempts to change them are futile as they will revert to type when pressure is applied.
The coaches firmly believe that if we take a look at many of our club and county minor and senior players, we will easily identify characteristics those footballers have had for years, including bad habits. Therefore, to demand that a 'head down solo runner' change and pass the ball to improve his game and help the team, does not work 80-90% of the time.

Anybody notice that referees have been allowing players in possession to take four steps into contact with a tackler and three or four more after contact before using the ball? This has happened numerous times in each championship game so far, many leading directly to scores. Effectively, a good tackler is being penalised for engaging the ball carrier. Is it four steps or not?