Familiar hands have cracked the Cork whip

JUST when all seemed sweetness and light within Cork GAA, news emerges of yet another row between the players and the county board, and yet again the knee-jerk reaction from most people I meet is “Ahhh! Another player-power move that must be stopped, at all costs!”.

Why? Why not “Ahhh! Another confrontational move by the county board, flying full in the face of the stated preference of the vast majority of the panel, completely and utterly ignoring their views!”?

When two players were appointed to the selection panel, they thought that this was so they would now have a real say in how things were done, that we would have no more destructive confrontation and everyone would be pulling in the same direction for the good of Cork hurling and football.