Early this week a player contract between St. Brigid's management and members of the club's senior panel was leaked online via journalist Ewan MacKenna.
The contract itself contained no stipulations which could be considered overly demanding. More, it was that the contract existed and was felt necessary which perturbed many. Presumably, whoever leaked it from within St. Brigid's in the first place felt similarly.
Speaking to Marie Crowe in today's Sunday Independent, Laois inter-county footballer John O'Loughlin - who plays his club football with St. Brigid's - said that the leaking of the contract annoyed him.
I was pissed off; annoyed because whether it's a club or county meeting the unspoken rule is that whatever is said and discussed stays in the room. I was bothered because it shouldn't have happened.
The Dublin championship is the most competitive in the country and as a team, we haven't been any way competitive in the last few years. We have limped out of the championship. Obviously we all want to win and to get properly competitive again. There was nothing unbelievable in the contract only the fact that it was a contract.
Hours following the leak, there was another - this time of the St. Brigid's senior panel's WhatsApp group reacting to news that the player contract was online.
O'Loughlin said that Brigid's players and management will investigate the further leak.
I'm very pissed off about that. It has to be dealt with and I think the management team and the senior players will investigate that and I don't want to be sounding petty but it shouldn't happen in any team, no matter what level. You are in a WhatsApp group with your mates and lads you take to the field of battle with; it should be private.
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