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What does everyone think of having a star of the week for U6?
Not sure I agree with it.
It's a fine line. Keeping all kids interested and giving them a love for the game. I'm with an U10s and we try to play all the kids. If we have more we maybe give them a kid for each half. Or I we are low we might put a younger sibling in the goal. Kids always want to know who wins but it's getting them active. The best will shine through. But the others get a sense of team and the club. Keeping them involved in gaa is the biggest result be it a fan or club member . I find soccer really tough on kids. My own lad couldn't even get into a club. Rugby I've no experience off.Our primary school tournaments are competitive, and we have a competitive league and a non-competitive league that run on the same day. We openly call it our competitive team and our development team. It works very well and every child that wants a game of football in P6 and 7 can go! There has to be some element of competition involved as children love competition from they're no age! They'll even race to the front of the dinner line if it means they win! A middle ground and common-sense approach is the best scenario. For underage games up to maybe u14 I would like a competitive half/quarter/third or whathever, of football and then a half where the score doesn’t count and everyone can get a go!
As someone said earlier, it’s the parents who are the problem 99% of the time! I have friends who turn into different people when it involves their own kids!! Usually becoming the people they once complained about themselves!
This. Parents should be f**king banned from Underage games. I have coached for a few years but as soon as my own kids are out of youth I am done with it and it is solely down to the parents. At U12.5 We had a policy that every player got at least a half. That did mean that better players got more game time as they usually stay on for the whole match. Looking back that might have been unfair as it meant the same players tended to get swapped out for each other but we decided it would be too difficult to try to give the same game time for everyone and we wanted to avoid the situation where we had 4-5 weaker players coming on en masse near the end, significantly weakening the team and frustrating the rest of the players.
on one memorable evening before the game I had one parent complaining about the lack of game time her u12.5 son was getting and threatening to take her son to a different club. I wouldnt have minded except she was going to take him to a larger club.To top it off, I went for a pint in the clubrooms afterwards with a couple of mates who have sons in the team and they were griping about us not playing our strongest team. They got a pretty colourful response on it.
I'm lucky and never had this experience with parents to be honest. But I have heard this plenty of times. Again I always made sure I everyone got equal game time. Heard plenty from the young fella about it though. So you can't win.
Rugby I think has an issue attracting and keeping kids. Heard participation numbers are down. But no first hand knowledge.
Soccer is all small sided games until 10 or 11 then it's gung go elite. Clubs poaching each others best players etc. If you don't run a good squad you can get humped 7 or 8 nil quite quickly and your best end up leaving. It's a real mess tbh.
Rugbys problem is the dangers it possesses once it gets into full contact. You can have kids 6 ft tall in U15s smashing up small kids. Hence the fall out. Plus the fact its a game with little skill required which is ideal for big awkward mullackers to smash into each other. I wouldnt let my kids near it.
That's the danger with rugby and the way it's going.
Although you could say similar about gaelic with lads in the gym and all power and strength and again people would say there's little skill in gaelic.
These votes will mean shit when the shit hits the fan, Border poll will mean the unionist voters will actually come out, I'd say the every unionist would be out to keep the union
Inevitably these teams get theirs assets stripped by the big boys.Brighton have qualified for European football for the first time in the club’s history. Huge achievement for the club, pound for pound the best footballing team in the Premier League.
Agree, great to watch
Like man city but without the big names
Has anyone checked on trailer?
Why does Alliance HAVE TO decide to be Orange or Green?
Surely their whole point and reason for existence is that they're neither.
Nationalist vote is greater than Unionist vote for the first time ever. What is the point in NI anymore?
Irish government need to grow some balls and prepare for Unity because this is a one way ticket. Unionists will never outpoll Nationalism ever again.
Yeah, things are changing pretty quickly.
Only problem is unionism doesn't seem to realise it or doesn't want to realise it.
Look at Danny Kennedy today - what a joke. He just doesn't get it.
Shinners picked up seats all over the place this time. In East Belfast, Lisburn and Coleraine etc. The demographics are changing quickly. Could have had picked up a few more seats also. Stood only 1 candidate in Limavady and in other places, they got the SDLP over the line.
It clears to see that the Protocol didn't have an impact in this election.
SF played it well. Didn't rock the boat while saying and doing the right things at the right time. I think they took the issues they were having in Derry City by the horns, went in and sorted it and look at the result today. Short term pain for longer term gain.
SDLP in big trouble. Very stale and very lucky they didn't lose more seats. Hard to know what they stand for this past 10 years. A lot of mixing and maxing with Labour, FF and FG. Eastwood has his work cut out and I heard him on saying voters were punishing the DUP. Needs to reflect on his leadership. Bit arrogant for my liking but some good councillors lost their seats.
Aontú keep coming back for more punishment. Getting nowhere near seats so hard to know where they go to. Be interesting to see how they go in the south after taking a battering in the north.
Good day for Alliance. Gradually building but they're still not coming down green or orange.....which they will have to at some stage.
Danny Kennedy on BBC talking about the risk of Sinn Fein domination in some areas. Made a bit of an eejet out if himself
You would think with the over reaction here that the lad was shot, it goes on in every game. Look at the off the ball stuff that happened in the Armagh and Derry game and not a word about it. Just the usual let’s bash Kilcoo!
