Sure, Cavan and Down wasn't setting Casement Park or our television screens ablaze with brilliance but what do people expect? According to the Tribune rankings, the game pitted the ninth and 19th best sides in the country against each other. The Premiership equivalent this season was West Ham and West Brom. No matter how bad the Casement Park encounter was, we know which we'd prefer to waste an afternoon at.

ROB A BANK AND SIGN UP FOR CLUB KILDARE On our travels through the country earlier in the week we passed through Kildare and stumbled on a thing called, well, 'Club Kildare'. The idea, as best we can make out, is that supporters farm out money and in return get some free stuff.

Sounds good? Well you get a jacket, an option to buy another jacket for /80, tickets to all intercounty games played in the county (about four a year), attendance at training sessions (we laughed too) and a couple of bumper stickers for your car. And the price of all this? Only /300 a year for man, woman, child, student or pensioner.

Come on, we know they have a few bob down there but. . .

WHAT HARM IN JUST ONE MORE COMMITTEE Committees, committees, the GAA is full of 'em. The new president has introduced a couple of well-received committees since he took his post, notably the Competitions Control Committee and the Hearings Committee. Then there's the Medical Committee, the National Audit Committee, the Financial Committee . . . the list goes on and on.

Anyway, it got Sideline Cuts thinking. What about introducing a committee for the supporter? The administrative branch of the GAA is well represented at national level and today's players have found their voice, so why not the supporter?

Last week it cost 25 to sit in the stand of Cusack Park for the under21 "nal, a few weeks before the same price was on the gates for the National League "nal. And that's before the championship has even started. Over the course of the summer some families will part with more than 1,000 while following their county. Maybe some proper discourse between those forking out this kind of money and those setting the ticket price is what's needed.

Supporters deserve a voice and we'd like to kick off the campaign for a National Supporters Committee.

Any chance, Nickey?

Compiled by Ewan MacKenna and TJ Flynn sport@tribune. ie