Some of the stuff on this Shane Walsh transfer. According to the Irish news (well o’Kane) no Dublin senior club should be allowed incoming transfers? Only intermediate.
I think that’s a fair enough suggestion. All senior clubs in Dublin will have multiple hundreds if not thousands of members from densely populated urban areas. Let’s call this out for what it is, he’s been tapped up and I’d be very shocked if there isn’t a cash offer or some other similar incentives for him to move to Crokes. At 29 years of age, why would you antagonise and alienate your home community and the club who nurtured you from primary up. The club where you are idolised by the kids and seen as a role model. How difficult would it have been to continue to play for his club whilst he finished his degree. If it’s so difficult to commute to train then why isn’t he transferring to Dublin from Galway? The beauty of the Gaa is that we play for where we are born and unlike soccer or rugby,success can’t be bought by the club with the biggest cheque book. Once that fundamental cornerstone is eroded, we’re all on a very slippery slope.
Very magnanimous of you to decide the fella who has moved to Dublin has to commute 4 times a week just to pass your purity test
He’s studying in Dublin to complete his degree just like thousands of other GAA players before him from up and down the country. It would have been very easy to remain with his home club during that period and to play for them at the weekends. There would be no 4 times a week commute and you know it. He could train with any number of clubs in the city without actually transferring as many other players have done before him. Instead, if he proceeds with the transfer, he becomes a pariah amongst his own….and for what really, 30 pieces of silver.
Long term, he’ll regret this.
Would your club refuse him?
Thankfully, outside the cities, transfer requests are very closely scrutinized by county boards. Obligation is on the player to prove that he is living at an address within that parish/club boundary. So, unless he takes up gainful employment in our town and physically moves to our town, then your question is completely hypothetical. As I said before, the beauty and uniqueness of the GAA is the fact that you play for where you are born. The payment of managers is a scourge and the elephant in the room that hierarchy keep burying heads in the sand over. A very simple rule would stop it and save us all a fortune, ‘a team can only be managed by a person who lives within their club’s boundaries’ same with county managers.
The sentiment I largely agree with
But it would only work in practice for the players
In terms of management, the mercenaries of this world would just be brought in same as now, but they'd be called coaches or waterboys.
It could never be policed.
Also, there are plenty of rural clubs who don't adhere to the 'where you're born' ethos
Unless 'where your mother or father was born' also counts
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