GPA chief Tom Parsons calls for scrapping of pre-season competitions

LAUNCH: Tom Parsons at the launch of TG4's new series of Laochra Gael at Light House Cinema in Dublin. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

Gaelic Players Association chief Tom Parsons has heaped further pressure on the GAA's under-fire pre-season competitions by calling for them to be scrapped.

Leinster's O'Byrne Cup competition has been undermined by a series of match cancellations and Offaly's withdrawal while Roscommon manager Davy Burke has argued that the FBD Connacht League should be scrapped.