'It would take away from the love of the game': Austin Gleeson against ‘pay for play’

Next month’s Munster senior hurling championship will place huge demands on players but Austin Gleeson believes pay for play would spoil inter-county Gaelic games.

Waterford, as well as Tipperary, have four games in as many weeks in the provincial competition — Offaly and Wexford face the same intense schedule in the Leinster SHC — and Gleeson acknowledges it will ask a lot of Derek McGrath’s panel.

“Four 70 minutes in four weeks is tough — it’s totally different to league, it’s much higher intensity. Knowing Derek, he probably has the four teams picked already for the four games and what way we’re going to go in the four days.