Peter Canavan: Keeping minor at U17 will lead to players leaving GAA to play soccer and rugby 

DECISION TIME: Darragh and Ruairi Canavan of Errigan Ciaran with their father Peter and niece Ava Harte after the Tyrone County Senior Club Football Championship Final match between Errigan Ciaran and Carrickmore at O'Neills Healy Park in Omagh, Tyrone. Photo by Oliver McVeigh/Sportsfile

Tyrone great Peter Canavan has warned that keeping the minor age grade at U17 will result in players leaving the GAA to go off playing soccer and rugby.

Canavan’s Errigal Ciaran club has drafted a motion to be heard at Tyrone’s county convention proposing the return of minor to U18 at club level but without decoupling. The decoupling cut off, they argue, should be U17, not U18.