Former Wexford hurling boss Liam Griffin is hoping a change at the the top of the GAA will usher in a new era of cooperation with the Club Players Association.
Griffin joined Friday's OTB AM to discuss the current state of Gaelic Games and speaking to Adrian Barry, he said: "From my perspective, I respect Paraic Duffy but I think what we got mostly was tokenism, to be fair. And that's not to be disingenuous - I think it was (tokenism). We weren't recognised at Congress so it was very easy to do it that way.
"Without going over that - and I don't want to start getting into side issues - I think the GAA needs a complete relook at itself from top to bottom and that's not being preachy - I know from my experience.
"I think the whole 'games playing situation' is in a complete and utter shambles. It needs to be sorted out. We offered as a group to come in but we didn't offer to do the usual GAA thing where we got up and whinged forever. We put together hundreds of man hours and I'd encourage people to go and look at Plan Green on the CPA website and see if that's not a better system than what we have at the moment.
"What I welcome is a new president, if that new president is open to sitting down and what I feel, if we offered to go in and sit down with like-minded people. Our position has not changed - we want to sit down in a progressive manner and put down workable plans - not just going in whinging.
"We've put in a lot of man hours into doing that and I would think that a progressive president would be delighted to sit down, and should be delighted to sit down, to look at the system and look at the playing system and put some order on the system," he added.
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