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I thought he was actually concerned about players over use, and training drills being too tough and lads hitting the gym everyday on top of their club commitments.... No he's concerned that the lads need to get pissed on a Saturday night!!


By all means mix up the days, nights for playing games, but don't say player welfare and base on allowing lads to get completely shit faced at the weekends.... No player welfare in that

Apologies, player welfare was prob the wrong choice of words. I'm definitely not trying to encourage fellas to get shit faced either.

I think Sunday's should be seen as a rest day. A day where players with young families can do exactly that, spend time with their families before going back to the weekly grind.

Games on Sunday's take up so much of the weekend because you are preparing mentally and physically from when you arrive home on Friday evening from work for that 60 mins on a Sunday afternoon. The next thing is the game is over and you might have to travel back to Belfast/NA and you realise your weekend is over without really having a chance to unwind/relax.

Like everything in life, sometimes sacrifices have to be made and theres a beauty in making them. Bad job if you don't see our games as part of a social life.

At least the U21s are giving it a go as much as its plain the see the difference in standards

Player welfare Skull. I'd challenge you to ask a small population of players in your club what they would prefer? You might get a surprise. We need to look after our most important commodity, our players (Young and old!).

Player welfare??

We need to look after our players = player welfare

Like everything in life, sometimes sacrifices have to be made and theres a beauty in making them. Bad job if you don't see our games as part of a social life.

At least the U21s are giving it a go as much as its plain the see the difference in standards

Player welfare Skull. I'd challenge you to ask a small population of players in your club what they would prefer? You might get a surprise. We need to look after our most important commodity, our players (Young and old!).

New to the board chaps.

After speaking to a few players in my own club, I believe we should move all county league games (hurling and football) to Saturday evenings and give our players back some of their social lives. Coming home from work/study on a Friday evening and having to put your entire weekend on hold for a game on Sunday is not realistic. Is it any wonder we have fellas turning their backs on our games in favour of rugby/soccer. The traditionalists won't like this idea but to be honest it's not about them. Ask the players what they want.

Any thoughts folks?