Inter-county GAA players want seven-month season and no-contact November

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SNAPSHOT: GPA Chief Executive Officer Tom Parsons, left, and GPA head of equality and players relations Gemma Begley present the GPA's Annual Membership Survey at Radisson Blu Hotel in Dublin. Pic: Shauna Clinton/Sportsfile

OVER nine out of ten Gaelic Players Association members believe that the inter-county season should run for a maximum of seven months from the first collective training session to the last game of the year. That 92% total figure is made up of 63% who believe seven months is the maximum sustainable length of the season with a further 29% believing the season should be less than seven months long.

This is one of the key findings from the GPA’s annual membership survey, the topline figures from which were published Tuesday. In total 3,676 players responded to the survey which is broken down between 2,320 male players and 1,356 female players.