GPA exceptionalism

Started by tiempo, February 06, 2025, 06:54:24 PM

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tiempo

4th February 2025, the day 4 were selected above all others and announced as brand ambassadors for Solgar UK & Ireland, the new vitamin partners of the GAA/GPA and title sponsors of the GAA museum.

Honest to God make it stop

Rossfan

God doesn't care what the GAA do.
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

tiempo

#2
All that history twinned with a compound and filler in a tasty gelatin shell

I bet the canapés were just scrumptious

tiempo

Ask not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

BigGreenField

Gaa Volunteer Underage coaches estimated to sacrifice lifetime earnings of 1.7 billion, seems about right and as much relevance.

samuel maguire

Quote from: tiempo on Today at 10:16:10 AMAsk not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

I think the report is well put together and puts the pressure on the government to cough up. Can only be a good thing.

Tubberman

Quote from: samuel maguire on Today at 10:26:00 AM
Quote from: tiempo on Today at 10:16:10 AMAsk not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

I think the report is well put together and puts the pressure on the government to cough up. Can only be a good thing.

Absolute bullshit, particularly in the successful counties.
They're all well looked after with endorsements and jobs that they would never get without their GAA profile.
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

BigGreenField

Quote from: samuel maguire on Today at 10:26:00 AM
Quote from: tiempo on Today at 10:16:10 AMAsk not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

I think the report is well put together and puts the pressure on the government to cough up. Can only be a good thing.

Disagree (it is a good report) however it's an amateur game and this is the bedrock (although distorted)

Make choices on career vs GAA as suits the individual or not - up to them, being compensated for those choices is professionalism.

Alternative is to scale back the level of commitment needed - I don't see the GPA lobbying for that.

The modern club player puts in a huge shift - should they be compensated, juvenile coaches taking teams a couple if nights a week, leaving work early, giving up Saturdays, how about them? Should raffle ticket sellers get commission?

The GAA provides great opportunity as well as demands , the balance is out at the minute but loading more resource into the inter county game isn't the way to go.

tiempo

#8
Do the GPA think the facilities the players use at no cost just magically appear? Have they accounted for the tens of millions of volunteer hours that brought the players to this point? Its not like the players are having to fork out to participate, they are grant funded, cut your cloth accordingly

Many moons ago Michael Murphy said his inter-county lifestyle choices weren't putting his life on hold, its how he chose to live his life. It costs to live, it costs to do anything, the GAA has an amateur ethos, the GPA have a stick up their ass and peddle this to extort more money from any available source, its their raison d'être

Rossfan

#9
A Trade Union exists to seek better pay and conditions for it's members.
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM

thewobbler

It's time for a game of chicken with the GPA.

Give them a time window next season, say 5-6 weeks, and give them carte blanche to hire any GAA stadium they like, and organise any competition format they like. They can then divvy up the profits any which way they like.

I don't think there's a chance in hell they'd take up the offer.

And it might help them understand that GAA followers don't go to watch players. They go to watch their schools, parishes and counties.

Rossfan

Err...they go to watch players playing for parishes/areas, Counties or schools.
I don't think you'll get many people to stand watching a school for an hour ( unless.....)
Davy's given us a dream to cling to
We're going to bring home the SAM