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GAA Discussion / Ulsters perspective on coaching
June 12, 2018, 12:34:46 PM
Lads, unfortunately I have to say it, our view and approach to coaching in Ulster is badly infected. Look at our top counties, Monaghan, Donegal (played nothing yet, and like Tyrone last year wrecking up big scores against bad teams, but when they play a good team it will be a slug feast) and Tyrone all based on mass defense, Fermanagh who have had a couple of wins and Antrim, who have not, have tried ultra defense, brutal stuff altogether. Then you have Tally in Galway and Poacher in Carlow coaching this crap and you get the picture I am painting. We have lost the plot. Who is to blame, is it the coaching model being deliver from the Ulster council to all the counties through these work shops. Was it Joe, then Mickey, further polluted by Jim and us sheep all followed. Regardless we are going no where fast. There are no All Irelands at county level and club level in the short term that I can see. At least in Tyrone club football it mostly attacking football with plenty of good foot passing
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I think that it is crazy how clubs have to raise serious cash to travel to England to play championship matches. We are amateur clubs, should Croke Park not pay all of these costs ?

Emyvale counting the cost of success
12 December 2013


The celebrations gets underway for Emyvale at The Athletic GroundsEmyvale chairman John Finn admits it has been a huge challenge for the Monaghan club to meet the cost of sending the team to Birmingham for Sunday's All-Ireland JFC quarter-final against John Mitchel's of Liverpool.

While the recently-crowned Ulster champions have received some financial assistance from Croke Park, they've still had to raise thousands of euro themselves to cover the cost of the trip to England's second city.

"This difficult task of raising the money was one the club was more than welcome to be faced with," the former Monaghan footballer said in the Irish News.

"Some teams may not be able to afford the trip for one reason or another and may have to pull out of the tournament."

He added: "It'll be just another match for them and I don't think they'll get too caught up in the occasion."