PROFESSIONAL in everything but name. Professional everywhere but pocket.<\/p>\n
Long-standing entries into the GAA vernacular but irritating and, let\u2019s be honest, inaccurate too.<\/p>\n
While it was encouraging to see Gaelic inter-county players stand up for themselves in the wake of Stephen Hunt\u2019s comments, they just aren\u2019t professional. Let us rephrase that \u2014 they aren\u2019t just professional.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re much more.<\/p>\n
Never mind the money \u2014 Gaelic players don\u2019t rest enough to be considered pros. A lot of them don\u2019t know what to do with their down-time because they have so little of it. One need only look at how cabin fever arrested the International Rules team in Australia last month. Cooped up for nine days prior to one test, the boredom took hold of them………………….. see more at :- http:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/columnists\/john-fogarty\/players-forced-to-make-too-many-sacrifices-302672.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PROFESSIONAL in everything but name. Professional everywhere but pocket. Long-standing entries into the GAA vernacular but irritating and, let\u2019s be honest, inaccurate too. While it was encouraging to see Gaelic inter-county players stand up for themselves in the wake of Stephen Hunt\u2019s comments, they just aren\u2019t professional. Let us rephrase that \u2014 they aren\u2019t just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12748],"tags":[15750,6635,7147,5636,15751,5745,6763],"class_list":["post-78259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2","tag-forced","tag-make","tag-many","tag-players","tag-sacrifices","tag-to","tag-too"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78261,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78259\/revisions\/78261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}