Mayo All-Star Danielle Caldwell believes a huge opportunity to showcase ladies football is being wasted by not staging more male-female National League doubleheaders.
The reigning Connacht champions are fifth in Division 1 and are hoping for a win over league leaders Armagh this weekend to ease relegation fears.
Back-to-back All-Star Caldwell said the quality in the division is at an all-time high, but remains frustrated that more hasn't been done to showcase the games.
She said doubling up Mayo's home games with the men's matches in Castlebar is an obvious move which should have been made by now.
"Why shouldn't we be in the big stadiums too?" asked Caldwell at the launch of John West Feile 2024.
"If we could have facilitation of double headers...it's the 'Can't see it, can't be it' thing. If we have these double headers that would facilitate being seen, which would get our numbers up, which would then bring revenue.
"They're my two things (I want); facilities and double headers.
"And this year there's been so many opportunities for double headers with Mayo alone; the Galway, Kerry and Dublin games could have been double headers.
"Obviously someone in the LGFA is making these fixtures on the same weekends, the same dates, but they're not being facilitated.
"I don't know the reasoning behind why they're not. I know it is a very hard situation to navigate. But the only people that suffer are the players, we don't get as many viewers at our games.
"I just envision that double headers will increase our viewing, and the whole development of the ladies game. That would be a huge advantage for the ladies game."
Mayo are being managed this year by local icon Liam McHale and his challenge is to build on their march to the last three All-Ireland semi-finals.
"His main thing is that we express ourselves and enjoy our football, which I think is coming through on the pitch," said Caldwell.
"Then obviously he is very attack-minded so he wants us to just play what's in front of us and attack. I don't think he loves the defending that you see in the men's game, so we're trying to become an attacking team and it's been enjoyable."
This weekend's clash with Armagh, who have won all five of their Division 1 games so far this term, is shaping up as their stiffest test yet.
Avoiding a defeat which would leave them fearing a bottom two finish and relegation is the target.
"You can definitely see that the league has gone up a notch even this year compared to last year," said Caldwell.
"I think even the level of skill and the level of general play has improved greatly. And yeah, there's huge pressure there to stay up, I think we're fourth from bottom so we're still not safe.
"We need to win one of our remaining two games to be safe so yeah, huge pressure."
Like Armagh, Mayo will approach the game with momentum following their Round 5 defeat of Cork and the draw with Kerry previously.
"That draw was probably the making of our league to be honest," she said. "It was a huge turning point for us in the camp. It gave us a huge boost in confidence. I think that point will stand to us at the end of the league, definitely."
