GAA president Larry McCarthy sees no reason to "push the panic button" over the number of one-sided games in the inter-county football championship, noting that such scorelines are inevitable given the nature of the format.
Mayo's brutal dismissal of Leitrim in the Connacht semi-final in Castlebar on Sunday sparked yet more debate about the championship structure.
Speaking after conducting the hurling qualifier draw on Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1 this morning, McCarthy described the Mayo-Leitrim scoreline (5-20 to 0-11) as "unwieldy" though no reason to panic.
"Well, inevitably, when you've an open draw like that, you're going to have one-sided contests. When you've a tier four against a tier one team, inevitably it's going to happen.
"We're going to have quite a robust debate, as you know, the fixtures review committee is up for discussion in the fall, as I would say, or the autumn. It'll give us an opportunity to review it and see where we are.
"Any unwieldy scores like that (Mayo-Leitrim) are challenging. But I wouldn't push the panic button yet.
Elsewhere, McCarthy is keen that attendances allowable for inter-county championship games will continue to "ratchet up" but acknowledges that this possibility depends on the association's ability to stick to the public guidelines.
On Thursday, Minister for Sport Jack Chambers announced marked attendance increases for the upcoming provincial finals, with 18,000 allowed attend the Leinster hurling final on 17 July, while 7,500 would be permitted into Páirc Uí Chaoimh the following day.
McCarthy heralded the progress and suggested the numbers could possibly double to 36,000 by the All-Ireland semi-final stage - however, he acknowledged this was contingent on the public health situation.
"We've made very good progress in terms of the inter-county attendances over the last couple of weeks, thanks to the Minister for Sport Jack Chambers. We're now looking at 18,000 in Croke Park next weekend," McCarthy told Morning Ireland on RTÉ Radio 1.
"Hopefully, we'll ratchet that up maybe to twice that by the All-Ireland semi-finals. I'm being hopeful here. Maybe we might even see more crowds at an All-Ireland finals.
"But it all depends on our ability to stick to the public health guidelines. And it all depends on the variant as well obviously. We will continue to be extremely careful. The clubs and the county boards have done a phenomenal job in terms of managing this. Hopefully, we will see larger crowds and, as I said to the Minister last week, the more the merrier.
"We don't know what's coming down the track. I have a lot of concerns about the various variants and our ability to cope with it. But we're on the right track. We're seeing participation, we're seeing kids come back into camps. We're seeing club games going on up and down the country.
"Hopefully we'll be able to keep on the right track through the autumn because we need county championships to be run effectively so that our county boards can generate some income so we can begin to fund our teams again for the next season - 2022."
The recent changes to the rules in hurling, with the introduction of a sin-bin and a yellow card for cynical fouling, have sparked a degree of angst, notably last week when referee James Owens used the sanction to award a penalty to Tipperary against Clare when attacker Jake Morris was tackled near the sideline.
McCarthy says rules are always open to review but reveals that the data collated from the National League indicates the changes are working.
"We've reviewed the data from the National League and it tells us fouling is down. So, the rule changes are effective."
"We will sit down at the end of the championship, as we always do, and review that again and see what the impact of the rule changes are, have discussions about it and if we need to change it, we will do it.
"We'll consistently look at the data that comes from the games. We'll continue to do that.
"There's always a review of the result of the changes we make. The standing committee on rules will look at it."
