Earlier in the week GAA president Jarlath Burns suggested that there needs to be a discussion around inter-county managers and bringing in contracts.
The worst kept secret in the GAA is that a lot of managers do actually paid in the form of some very generous expenses, however, you only have to look at the turnover of boss in the last few months to see that there isn't much security or longevity in the role.
Managers are often appointed on a three or four year term, but really it isn't worth the paper that it is written on, and they could leave, or the the county board could dismiss them, at any time during that period.
Speaking to RTÉ at the launch of the interprovincial competition where the new proposed rules are going to be trialled in a Railway Cup style tournament, the men in charge of those teams had their say on the matter.
Ulster boss and current Fermanagh manager Kieran Donnelly certainly believes that contracts for those in charge of the team could actually help players and their load.
This has been mooted for years. The way the game has evolved, it's got more professional, the players do take more managing.
"The level of training, especially you'll find with this new game going forward with the new rules, there will be an even fitter athlete required due to the high-speed running and the demands on them.
"So this is probably something the GAA will have to discuss. Within us (managers) at the minute, we do realise the time load on it but we do it because we enjoy it. There's no doubt about it.
"When you're managing your own county, there's a massive reward to that, so it probably will be something that will need to be looked at down the line due to the actual time that is afforded to running a team, especially at this level.
"I think the benefit of a manager being full-time would be the managing of players' load across the board, because it's got so professional that the whole S&C side of things and the training and professionalism of how you present your team on matchdays, (it would be) somebody to oversee all of that," he said.
"And there does be a knock-down effect then on player welfare. If you have one or two people managing those players and their load, with universities, and how they're playing with their senior county team as well, there's a lot of merit in that I suppose for the health of the game and for the health of the player."
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Dessie Dolan, who stepped down as Westmeath manager just a few weeks ago is in charge of the Leinster team that will be laying this weekend.
The former county star believes that the role as manager demands the same hours as a full time job now, especially around championship time.
If that's the way Jarlath Burns sees it, that's his view from the GAA. I don't know in terms of the managers, what (way) they see it but certainly it does appear the role, the demands are 40 hours a week at the very least in championship football.
"All I can say from my experience is inter-county management is pretty much a full-time job in terms of the hours that you put into it.
"But after that, I don't know what the GAA president is going to do. But certainly, the role is probably 30, 40, 50 hours (a week) in the championship season.
"When it's hot and heavy in that championship, you're doing an awful lot of analysis, an awful lot of calls. There's a lot of stakeholders as well to keep happy.
"So certainly, that time of the year and the demands on a manager have increased dramatically in the last couple of years.
"If you look at all the stakeholders that's involved, if you've got county boards, supporters, clubs, you have sponsors, you have players themselves, you deal with medical people, you're dealing with all these people all the time.
"You're on the phone, constantly in communication, the most important guys then - the players - as well, so the role and the demands have increased dramatically, so therefore maybe that's a possible solution that they might look into."
Connacht boss and current Galway manager Padraic Joyce had a much more mooted take on the matter, choosing to reserve judgement for when the decision is actually made.
The Tribesman native made it clear that above everything else, he manages his county because he truly loves it.
"Managers will take contracts depending on what's in the contract.
"But again, I can only speak for myself, I'm involved with my own county for the love of it. I played for the county, I love the county.
"(Inter-county management) is time consuming and most managers would tell you it probably costs them money to do their own counties and that kind of stuff.
"Jarlath has a comment about the contracts, so I think he's setting a committee up to look at that, so we'll see what comes off that."
With the split season already changing the format of the game, and these new rules set to change how it is played, then it is likely that we will see further adaptions made to matters such as managers and their contracts.
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