Kieran Shannon: Players can’t be the fall guys in congested calendar

The GAA has made strides on the fixtures front but further tweaks have to be made

Mayo’s Tommy Conroy takes on Donegal’s Patrick McBrearty in the Allianz Football League Division 1 match at Markievicz Park last month. Conroy suffered a cruciate injury while playing a Sigerson Cup quarter-final for NUIG 48 hours afterwards. Picture: James Crombie

Tue, 08 Feb, 2022 - 07:30

Kieran Shannon is an award-winning sportswriter renowned for big interviews, insightful columns and an unrelenting focus on high‑performance sport.

They haven’t entirely fixed the fixtures yet, you know.

The CPA may be gone, having decommissioned themselves with the advent of the split season, but just because the tension between club and county has eased tremendously doesn’t mean players are free from other forms of tug of war. They still can get pulled and dragged in various directions and inevitably some snap.