GAA seeking to relax ban on training weekends

Such training camps have been prohibited from the end of the Allianz Leagues unless they fall within a certain time period prior to a championship game. Last year that time-frame was 10 days prior to all championship games unless it was an All-Ireland final where it extended to 17 days. A penalty was also specified where loss of home venue for a league match the following season would apply. Three counties fell foul of that enforced rule – Waterford, Laois and Armagh – while Wexford escaped a similar charge at hearings level. In all, 10 counties were asked to explain their movements in April and May and prove that they didn’t contravene the GAA’s rule 6.22 (b). The application of the rule was divisive with Laois football manager John Sugrue hitting out at its flaws. The rule was originally tightened in an effort to create more free weekends for club activity but concerns about how enforceable it was and what constituted a training weekend has led to a proposed redraft from Central Council. Instead of “training weekends or training of longer duration,” as the current rule legislates for, collective training which “involves an overnight stay” will now be prohibited between… Read full this story

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