NORTH first-team coach Mick Le Prevost has laid into the GFA for expanding its six-day rule to cover all island games. Le Prevost (pictured) has been an outspoken critic of the GFA and its proposed changes for the game and this issue was no different.

Four of Le Prevost’s players featured in this year’s Muratti.  ‘You’re having a laugh,’ he said, when told of the proposed changes. ‘I won’t be happy with that. That would be terrible. How are we going to prepare for our games? I need my players. For Murattis and South-West Counties that’s understandable, but if it’s for a friendly . . . that’s pushing the bar too far.’

Just how much support Le Prevost will get in the club versus country debate is unclear.  But St Martin’s coach and former island boss Colin Fallaize has a different view. ‘If it stimulates the guys to get better, then I don’t have a problem with it,’ he said.

‘You’ve got to value the job that people do for the island. Steve [Ogier] and Tony [Vance, assistant coach] put a lot of effort in and I can understand that they want the players’ time a bit more.’