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Heffo is back !! The "County Board Man"  (Fixture man as he admitted himself) is back    Now, I can only deduce that facts are annoying him.

Didn't he win the last Leinster Final for ye when he told Bailey in the K Club the way to play the ball into the Laois half back line and the changes ye needed to make to win Sam. In his book he said that himself and that after their chat Bailey said the job was his if he wanted it. But, (after thinking about it if you don't mind) he decided to go back to Laois.  I would ask him for the 100 grand back !  I don't know which of them was worse, O'Dwyer for his involvement in discussions with Bailey or Bailey for going behind Pillars back.  I was in O'Mahoneys builders there one day and a fella behind the counter was giving it loads about Pillar and how bad he was, next thing after the Leinster Final he was singing his praises.  I think he is OK and ye will have a fair go at it this year.

The lad's aren't even going down Bud said so he is out for a ramble around Cork.  If he wins he will be the first horse shot for winning a race.

I was talking to Bud Wiser just this very second and he says to wait 'till later.  He thinks there will be only 9 horses in that race but I think he will be running like the last day when he pulled the arms out of the jockey and came 9th.  Whats the ground like in Cork, was there much rain down there?

Bud says he won't be backing him, waiting for another two weeks or so.

Well without going into the whole debate again the money issue relates to club players as well and down the country there are little clubs that are barely surviving, most have now amalgamated into double barrelled names.  What chance have they got of competeing against the more "professional" clubs with better training methods and bigger membership?  Maybe if their players got equal payments to others these little clubs would survive. Unless the "grassroots" come to terms with what year we are living in they will be left in the grass while the rest of the country moves on.  It won't be long before we see a manager sitting like the rugby boys with a laptop in the dugout.  All we have to figure out is how each club gets equal tilt at any payments being made and all we need to make sure of is that my Jack, when he comes in from work milking cows, gets the same chance as your Joe when he comes in from work at Davy Stockbrokers.

P.S.  I used to be all against the GPA but now I think they are great.

Well Micko got more than the price of a spare bicycle chain from Laois.  Aye, 'tis getting boing, just pay the lads the few bob that is there for now and we will sort out the rest later.  I think this thing dragging on about the initial payment is going to hamper discussions on the exact payments to players appearing in this years A.I.F's and if these ae not agreed before All-ireland Final Day there could be a strike.  Get on with it, pay the lads the few bob and get over it.