Hampsey's defending for that goal....
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Blowitupref on March 16, 2024, 03:34:31 PMAny Fermanagh poster in attendance to explain how it went so wrong for them today? Result Louth 6-17 Fermanagh 0-11.I wonder will Fermanagh get the same abuse as Antrim U20s did for a similar scoreline.
Quote from: Níl a fhios agam on March 14, 2024, 03:16:29 PMpoint blank... does anyone think its right for a manager to approach players from neighboring clubs who may have fallen out with their club, or not be in contention of starting their own senior team? If so, what would the GAA look like if clubs took this approach and operated the same as soccer clubs. We would lose the things that make us unique to the other sports.Is it right to do it with managers?
Quote from: AllStar15 on March 12, 2024, 09:31:47 AMQuote from: Rawhide on March 11, 2024, 12:30:40 PMQuote from: AllStar15 on March 11, 2024, 11:45:50 AMSchools! Schools! Schools! That is why we are behind in development, any other answer is a by-product. We need a strong school in Belfast and a strong school in the SW. We need schools going out and bringing our best P7s to that school and developing them from there based on ability and promise, not club.
SW clubs are leading the way in Antrim at the minute and that's from exposure to that level, but we need a school where we aren't competing with Derry players and Antrim reaps all the benefit of players being developed. I was told 25 years ago by a prominent Armagh man this was our issue - and it still is today.
I must say this complete rubbish. The quality of coaching at club level in your youth, on the whole is not at the level required. No strategy to improve it. Nor will it improve in the absence of one, it rinse and repeat for years upon years.
You are deluded. It's the same Ulster coaching clinics that everyone goes to, and the Antrim contingent is always strong at them, as I have been to plenty over the years. So why is it all other counties come away better coaches but Antrim's don't? Every county in Ulster has at least one strong GAA school, except Antrim.
Aghagallon and the Derry side of Antrim have all come on leaps and bounds these past 5/10 years - if you dont think the proximity to strong schools has anything to do with then I've a bridge to Scotland to sell you.
Quote from: bannside on March 12, 2024, 10:25:21 AMThe great thing about schools that take their GAA ethos really seriously is that the programme starts the first week in the gate at year eight.I didn't say that.
A school that offers 8 hours a week across a mixture of training/matches/S&C/pilates/yoga/ diet and nutritional advice will produce a much better individual...than say a school that offers x2 hours a week across the same spectrum of activity.
It's basic maths.
Across 40 weeks and 7 years it's 2240 man hours versus 560 man hours.
Obviously not an exact science, but a blind man should see the difference a full on school can make to player development versus a school going through the motions.
Then do the same exercise across a progressive club versus a club taking short cuts.
It's all about the work, and as Duine says, the level of apathy in some Antrim schools and clubs is appalling.