The shadow boxing begins for heavyweight contenders

Earlier this month, around 100 inter-county players met up in south Dublin for the Gaelic Players Association’s annual reps summit.

The themes of the day were ‘leadership’ and ‘engagement’, though the sitting was polarised by a heated debate on the current football Championship structure.

Players quickly agreed that the present model is ‘broken’, out of date, though by the time the meeting wrapped up there was still nothing near consensus on what the solution might be.