Duo welcome new closed season

NOT all of their colleagues share their sentiments, but Paul Caffrey and Brian McIver yesterday welcomed the newly established closed season voted in by Saturday’s Special Congress.

Coined as a “pro-club Congress” by president Nickey Brennan, the Dublin and Donegal managers agreed the November and December lock-down is just what the doctor ordered for the hard-pressed inter-county player.

Caffrey was already enrolled in the school of thought that viewed lengthy pre-seasons as anathema to modern Gaelic games, a view strengthened by the catalogue of league games in the Pale that have stretched into 2008.