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Thu 05 May 2007Consultation meeting ends up a tame affairLess than a third of the country's intercounty football and hurling managers showed up at the GAA's consultation meeting in Croke Park on Tuesday night, to the slight bemusement of GAA president Nickey Brennan. Billed as an opportunity for all managers to air any grievances ahead of the championship it instead turned into a rather tame affair, with better consistency among referees the main talking point."Maybe managers are quite happy about how things are being run," suggested Brennan. "That's certainly one conclusion. But we had only around 20 present, from a possible 63. We started at 7.0, and finished at 9.15, and then managers were left to chat amongst themselves.