John Fogarty: CPA’s withdrawal not a stunt but a strategy

The Club Players Association (CPA) weren’t sparing with their language last week, but then, they would have had reason. The description of the fixtures taskforce as “a Trojan horse” was the exact phrase used by Europe chairman Tony Bass at Congress last year when he dismissed their transparency motion, which was then defeated heavily.

The CPA don’t forget — executive member Liam Griffin made that abundantly clear when he spoke of the GAA hierarchy being a cold house for them. “What’s wrong with civil disobedience?” he said of the need for some dissent in the taskforce.