Arsene Wenger might disagree but when it comes to the debate on 'B' championships in sport, Waterford football manager Tom McGlinchey is in no doubt as to their appeal.
"What’s going to happen as regards a tiered system for the football, I genuinely don’t know," he told RTÉ Sport.
"They say the appetite isn’t there from the players and the counties, so it’s hard to know.
"People don’t like talking about what happens in soccer and rugby.
"Just look at Arsenal, in the Europa League, does anyone really care about it? Connacht are in the Challenge Cup. They were in the Heineken Cup two years ago.
"They are in the Challenge Cup now. Does anyone care about it? Not really.
"It’s like the hurling things. I know in the Christy Ring, the Joe McDonagh, the Lory Meagher, the Nicky Rackard, all the teams that are involved in that, of course they are giving it everything but do the top journalists really care what happens at the bottom tiers?
"Let’s be honest about it. They don’t.
"The provincial and the local papers will pick up on it and you will get your results but it’s all about the top teams."
McGlinchey was speaking at the launch of the Munster Football Championship, from which his side are strongly tipped to exit at the hands of Tipperary on 19 May.
He thinks that the advent of the Super 8s will diminish the importance of the provincial championships and points to the cancellation of fixtures in his county's Division 4 as evidence of a general lack of consideration for lower-tier counties.
"This isn’t being smart and facetious," he said. "What the Waterford footballer thinks doesn’t really come into it.
"What Division 4, Division 3 teams think, it doesn't really matter, let’s be realistic about it.
"It’s all about the Super 8s, getting exposure. You can see it the way the television companies are kind of forgetting now about the provincial championships. They are all putting their eggs into the Super 8s.
"Unfortunately, you will probably see the provincial championships will just drift away. That’s my view on it."
Though he admits it is an optimistic notion, the Cork native has a novel suggestion for true competition at inter-county level: a standardised budget cap, somewhat along the lines of the USA's NFL.
"We saw the Tommy Murphy Cup, they tried that, they tried All Ireland B," he said.
"We need to have a root and branch think about it. The top teams, they have more to play with. If you want an even Championship, and this will never happen, the 32 teams start with €200,000 - that is what they are allowed spend.
"You have 30 players and you name your 30 players on January 1, and that is what you have for the year. Do that for five years - it won't be long evening out.
"I'm involved with Waterford, six of the team that started against Cork last year won't be playing this year. So the six I'm bringing in, it will take them a while to get to that standard. To be fair if Dublin or Kerry lose two or three top players the fellas they have coming in will get better. They have more money behind them and it does make a difference.
"If you want a fair system have everyone starting the same."
