Player burn-out focus of ‘very hard-hitting’ GPA report

GPA head of communications Sean Potts revealed yesterday that the player organisation will release a "very hard-hitting" report on player burn-out in the coming weeks, reports Michael Moynihan

Responding to criticism levelled by Colm O’Rourke on the subject, the GPA official said: “We’ve a very hard-hitting report due out in the next couple of weeks having conducted workshops with students and focus groups among young players, it’s all been part of the minor review group.

“Dessie (Farrell, GPA CEO) has been very vocal about this and the need for reform in this area. We’ve done a lot of work with this cohort of players and made our submissions, so it’s not true to say that somehow we’re not interested in this area — this is where burnout is at its most insidious.