GPA backing of FRC proposals may fall on deaf ears

Inter-county footballers have given the thumbs-up to the majority of the Football Review Committee’s second report to be voted on at Central Council today.

Their GPA representative at today’s meeting in Dublin’s CityWest Hotel will be mandated to voted in favour of 13 of the 15 proposals, including the four eight-team province blueprint for the Championship, with 55% of respondents to a survey backing it.

That would see the four opening round losers in Leinster and Ulster, three from the former and one from the northern province, enter Munster and Connacht to make up four groups of eight. However, the majority of counties are expected to go against the idea.