Paddy’s night but GAA players were in bed early.
The Sunday of a Bank Holiday weekend and members of club teams and county teams will be tucked in before midnight again.
Games, club and county, fell victim to the snow all over the country this Saturday. Another icy blast has seen a portion of National League games rescheduled for the same time tomorrow. County league games from Tipp to Tyrone likewise.
In fairness, we can blame the GAA for a lot of things but it’s harsh to blame them for outlandish weather conditions.
At the same time, a little bit of consideration for players wouldn’t go astray. It’s Paddy’s weekend, Ireland have won the Grand Slam and every other sinner with no GAA ties is out having the craic and celebrating.
Meanwhile, GAA players, always doing what they’re told and just as often being taken advantage of for that willingness, are sent a text message, ‘game off, re-fixed for same time tomorrow lads.’
The GAA are lucky this is a Bank Holiday weekend https://t.co/am5TtMbtC2
— SportsJOE (@SportsJOEdotie) March 18, 2018
Sure why would GAA players have any plans?
They’re machines and their lives revolve around the game.
No they’re not. They’re normal young people. Most of them work from Monday to Friday and don’t get too much of a chance to socialise.
This is a weekend all Irish look forward to every year. GAA players are in limbo now. Some of them are like anti-christs and you can believe that because even though they love the game, one size doesn’t fit all and not every player’s life revolves around the GAA.
Some lads won’t mind this but others certainly will.
In the meantime there have been even more postponements and more re-fixtures and now there’s even less of a scope to plan for anything. Again. And more cursing of what might have been.
At this early stage, two games have already fallen victim. Galway and Wexford’s, and Dublin and Tipperary’s National Hurling League Quarter Finals will have fallen by the wayside.
The Down v Tipperary Division Two clash in the Football League can’t go ahead because some players have to work tomorrow. That is already putting the Tipperary club month and fixtures in April into doubt.
Former Tipperay hurler Paddy Stapleton was joking when he asked whether the club championship will be played as a blitz in Tipperary, but with the way club players are treated, the sentiment of that statement rings true – the club player always pays the price.
Club Championship to be played as a blitz? https://t.co/By00x1QU6C
— Paddy Stapleton (@pasaint) March 18, 2018
We can’t blame the GAA for the weather but a little less risk and a little more planning and we could have coped with this.
