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Published 21:40 19 Jan 2017 GMT
Updated 00:38 20 Jan 2017 GMT
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In Mayo, they demanded that weekend breaks be agreed before the season starts.
This stuff happens everywhere.
The stuff that isn't written down is just unwritten rules anyway but, every January, clubs start afresh with a new regime that is promising that, this year, there will be no f**k ups.
Let's get real though: three senior teams win championships in every county each season - the rest ultimately fail. So, come the dawn of a new year, everyone tries to get tougher and more professional to make sure it doesn't happen again.
For one hurling club up north though, that has been taken to a whole new extreme.
It's no secret that some managers are getting paid by some clubs and it's no secret that the arrival of outside managers can sometimes cause a bit of tension more quickly than normal - especially when money is involved, and especially when results are not going as planned.
What's happening in one hurling club in Ulster is another depressing low.
SportsJOE has exclusively seen documents that were handed out to every member of the senior team at the first meeting.
In the interest of anonymity, the player asked that neither the manager, the club or the county be named but what happened is yet another blow to what the GAA is supposed to be about.
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