Sunday Game panellists Pat Spillane and Ciarán Whelan have plenty of sympathy for Tipperary and other 'smaller' counties who they believe are getting a hard deal from the GAA when it comes to fixtures and are being "forgotten about" by competition organisers.
Tipperary claimed an impressive Munster SFC quarter-final victory over Waterford at Semple Stadium, a result which earns them a semi-final showdown with Cork next week.
However Liam Kearns’ men have been left with just six days to prepare for that clash with Cork, a situation which has left the Tipp manager seething.
Kearns' side will now have to play two Championship games within the space of a week and Whelan believes that the GAA have hung the Premier out to dry.
"Liam Kearns has been very vocal about it and I think he’s right," the former Dublin midfielder said. "The least you deserve when you start out in your provincial championship is two weeks between each game.
"They deserve more, they’re not being treated appropriately and being asked to play in six days is not acceptable.
"No other county is being put in that situation. Why not the ninth or tenth of June and you still have two weeks to the Munster final?
"I don’t think it’s right and you have to ask, would the bigger counties be treated like that?"
"They’re coming in to play Cork, it’s their biggest game of the year and they’re being given six days. I don’t think it’s acceptable."
Former Kerry All Star Spillane echoed Whelan’s comments and claimed that counties like Limerick are "being forgotten about" by the GAA.
"People will say out there on social media that we should be giving much more coverage to these smaller games and the minnows and that we’ve got rid of them, but we’re only reflecting what’s happening in the GAA world.
"What we’re reflecting is the fact that the weaker counties aren’t getting the respect they deserve.
"There were three matches not played in Division 4. Limerick didn’t play their last match, Waterford didn’t play their last match. Could you imagine that would happen with Dublin or Kerry or Tyrone? It would not.
"Waterford and Limerick play again on June 9. Say they get a bad draw, one of the big teams and they get beaten. That means their two Championship games are played in three weeks and on June 9 goodbye.
"Wickow? Wicklow should be playing at home in Aughrim against Dublin, but for money it’s being moved elsewhere.
"The bottom line is that in the GAA sadly at the moment, it’s about money, it’s about earning money, the strong are getting stronger and the weak are just being forgotten about."
