If nothing else, we are a contrary bunch.
Add in a bit of heartfelt passion and personal ownership of the matter at hand and you have the GAA proletariat. Full of lifelong knowledge of the game, take them for fools or ignore their opinions at your peril.
The game was dead, dying or needing resuscitation, whatever your viewpoint, it wasn’t pretty.
Along came Jarlath Burns’ knights of Football Radical Changers or the FRC as we would know them. To be fair, they were up to the challenge. Even from the outside looking in, it’s clear this was nothing less than a herculean task.
And boy they were brave. No messing about the edges here. Wholesale changes were both considered and enacted. Nothing would be…