Going pro would ruin GAA, insists Ward

CIAN WARD knows he will “get it in the neck” for this.

He knows that, no matter how he puts it, there will be a significant rump of people out there who will strip away the finer points and hold up his argument as another Trojan Horse assault on amateurism in the GAA.

It was Tuesday afternoon when he stuck his head above the parapet on Twitter as the publication of Páraic Duffy’s discussion document on payments to managers flushed a cacophony of opinions from the ether and onto the internet.