‘Super 8’ a no-go without GPA support, warns CPA chairman Micheál Briody

The Club Players Association (CPA) says the legitimacy of the “Super 8” addition to the All-Ireland senior football championship won’t hold up if the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) also oppose it.

According to CPA chairman Micheál Briody, at least two county panels – Donegal and Wexford – are against the plan to replace the All-Ireland quarter-finals with two round-robin groups of eight, which would increase the number of SFC games by eight. Briody has recently spoken with new GPA chief executive Dermot Earley.

Briody and fellow CPA executive member Anthony Moyles met with GAA director general Páraic Duffy and head of communications Alan Milton on Wednesday evening. There they asked Duffy to formally park his proposals, having issued a press release to that effect last month. However, the intention of Central Council is to have the motion debated first thing at Congress tomorrow week.