Worthy plans need to be refined

It may have been a launch but yesterday was also a goodbye from Eugene McGee as Football Review Committee (FRC) chairman.

Worthy plans need to be refined

His brief extended as far as yesterday’s press conference. “Yes, I will never be heard of again,” he laughed. “I will write my column under a nom de plume so people think I am gone. This was meant to be a white paper but not like last year where we went to Congress with it.”

This, the second part of the FRC’s report on the state of football, was not originally part of the gig. That became evident when a Croke Park official admitted he was surprised McGee and his group had been asked to look at the structure of the Championship.

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