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U21 group 5, what happens now in this farce. NE in B?, who from LD & ODR go into A. Both have a win each and 2 losses, both likley to struggle in A based on results.
LD had their game V NE postponed on 3 occasions. Can ODR claim points in their game v NE following their demotion to B

Don't swallow your Whistle ref. You post didn't make any sense. Obvs you're a biggerand better GAA man than me

You been drinking hon

Genuine mistake Belfast GAA man. I thought there was a Dunloy connection through hurling familywise

[not paying their own guys]

Fair play to creggan? They have spent 250k in past 12 years on managers for seniors lol. Bound to hit a bit of success with one. Biggest spending club in Antrim. Which they are fully entiltled to do but don't come this story of senior players giving back when a number have went to other clubs to manage for money.

Like who? The only one I can think of his Adrian Dougan.

What's the salary these days for a club manager. Admire LD for not paying their own guys on principle

If you have to admire a club for this then we are all up the creek.

I admire that the men involved were club men, doing it for their own club and for FREE. They weren't lured away but their greed

Fair play to creggan? They have spent 250k in past 12 years on managers for seniors lol. Bound to hit a bit of success with one. Biggest spending club in Antrim. Which they are fully entiltled to do but don't come this story of senior players giving back when a number have went to other clubs to manage for money.

Like who? The only one I can think of his Adrian Dougan.

What's the salary these days for a club manager. Admire LD for not paying their own guys on principle

BG, I don't know the full facts but I know that mentors try their utmost best to put out teams. From my experience they want to improve players and will always attempt to reschedule if players are unavailable. £100 fines appear highly punitive

IMO not as harsh as £100 fines imposed on clubs for failing to field at minor football.
Profiteering or paying for King Henry's hotel!!!

is that 100 quid even if u give notice in advance?

IMO not as harsh as £100 fines imposed on clubs for failing to field at minor football.
Profiteering or paying for King Henry's hotel!!!

Youngsters are being overtrained at this time of the year and then end up with months without football. At the beginning of the season, I asked for a meeting with parents and club coaches, where I set out a timetable of the season, right through to minor club championship final. I set out what I thought was in the best interests of the lads, ourselves with the county and the clubs. 4 clubs turned up to that meeting along with a number of parents. At the meeting not one person disagreed with what I proposed, despite being given numerous opportunities to do so. Did it happen...no it didn't, resulting in a number of lads picking up overuse injuries because they were being overtrained. We ended up calling sessions short when it came to our attention as we preferred to look after the lads' wel being rather than anything else. Communication between county, clubs and parents is the key, along with coaching egos being left to the side. We tried our best as a management team, but the effort from club coaches was reciprocated by a very small number of people. Until this issue is addressed l, then there is no point in speaking about anything else. I am involved with my own club's under 12 team, which is proving much more rewarding an experience than county minor football, which should not be the case!!!

Was this the CBS school meeting, if so I believe several clubs sent representatives, not all were lead coaches at their clubs.
You refer to communication being key, I agree but it's not helpful if the clubs are being communicated to in a fashion of teacher to pupil. I take it that the club coaches are at fault
here for not doing what they were told