Could the club survive without the countyman?

GAA club month is nearly over, a jamboree that chiefly involved dozens of articles bemoaning the lack of club activity. And a few club matches to take the bare look off things.

In those matches that did take place, there was an audit carried out far more pressing than the one on the scoreboard: how many countymen togged out?

And just when you thought you were out the gap, here’s one more attempt to tease out an age-old philosophical question: could we not just work away without the countyman?