GAA players face a simple choice: Commit, or don’t

GAA players? Why, they’ve never had it so good, writes Brendan O’Brien.

It’s true, and in every facet of their lives, on and off the pitch. Seriously, if you walked on Croke Park’s sacred sod back in the days when turf management was a guy poking an open fire with a stick then you’d have to agree. We’re talking different worlds here.

Pitches are no longer quagmires. Facilities in general have been transformed from cold concrete shells to state-of-the-art centres of excellence.