{"id":301257,"date":"2026-02-16T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301257\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:40:09","slug":"theyre-doing-this-to-tell-us-not-to-have-big-backroom-teams-kieran-mcgeeney-on-croke-parks-latest-amateur-status-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/301257\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They\u2019re doing this to tell us not to have big backroom teams\u2019 \u2013 Kieran McGeeney on Croke Park\u2019s latest amateur status moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney at Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sports3358855.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney at Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Kieran McGeeney has suggested that Croke Park\u2019s latest move to address the thorny issue of amateur status in the GAA is aimed at curtailing \u201cbig backroom teams\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Armagh manager was speaking after their weekend league defeat in Roscommon where he was asked about the report just published by the Amateur Status Review Committee (ASRC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney at Dr Hyde Park in Roscommon. Photo by Seb Daly\/Sportsfile Kieran McGeeney has suggested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20803,7070,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-301257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-armagh-gaa","9":"tag-frank-roche","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}