'Gerard Cavlan has been encouraging. He trained on Tuesday night and did a full session, so he is obviously making good progress.' Tyrone manager Mickey Harte is optimistic that forward Gerard Cavlan could be in contention for the Ulster final on 15 July.
'Sadly our disciplinary system is a complete joke. It has now got to the stage that once a player is suspended, people expect the suspensions to be over-ruled or else thrown out. Nobody seems to be prepared to accept a punishment any longer. The present system is unwieldly, unworkable, complicated and confusing, and it cannot be allowed to continue.' Longford chairman Martin Skelly believes the current disciplinary system must change if things are to be improved.
'I can’t believe they propose to give me 96 weeks. I am disgusted. I am going to win my appeal and clear my name because I am innocent.' Two Mile House player Richie Porter defiantly protests his innocence after Kildare's Competitions Control Committee suspended him for a lengthy 96 weeks for an alleged head-butt on referee Pat O’Connell during a recent club match.
'The underdogs tag is only an advantage if you take it. I’m sure all the pundits have written us off before Sunday and that will be a motivational tool but like I said, being written off and being underdogs is only an advantage if we use it and I hope we do on Sunday.' Offaly manager Pat Roe hopes his 'underdogs' can overturn Leinster SFC favourites Dublin at Croke Park this Sunday.
'We do not endorse the findings or procedures used in the new disciplinary system and we find it absolutely extraordinary that the president of the Association would implicitly attack us and our county board for staying within the GAA in an effort to defend ourselves, and for using those very procedures set up to discourage players from going to the courts.' Cork's Sean Óg Ó hAilpín, despite apologising for his part in the Semple Stadium fracas, suggests the Association's handling of the affair was far from satisfactory.
'Which guy was that then?' A question believed to have been posed by Dublin forward Mark Vaughan after he was asked his opinion on the merits of one Seamus Moynihan after a league match against Kerry last year.
