Is hurling plan better than what we now have?

Quite the week for the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) last week. We don’t mean the launch of their terribly vague three-year strategic plan but how they chose to run it against a GAA event involving an official associate sponsor.

If that wasn’t enough, GPA chief executive Dermot Earley then spoke to the press about how annoying it was that the GAA were now supporting new championship models with more games when they ran the GPA’s football blueprint out of town for the same reason.

In truth, the 40 extra matches the GPA were calling for is hardly comparable with the eight additional fixtures planned for in the Super 8.