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pissing against the wind

December football is wrong at so many levels.

Weirdest thing is anonymous posters on a forum, not this one, having a pop at players for their commitment levels because they had a AFL combine or went to a club mate's wedding in December and god forbid had a drink.

Rainbow was a selector with Sarsfields, players didn't want him as manager....what do players know eh!!!

Nice one Anthony!!!

Athy Rugby Club in Kildare can't get any Public Liability Insurance because of previous and outstanding claims against them, all non-rugby related. Running the serious risk of having to shutdown if not resolved in the next week.

This is a worry for every sports club in the country with their own grounds.

How does GAA Public Liability insurance work?

Could the IRFU not sort it out?

You would like to think so but the IFRU's primary focus is the professional game. Not sure they would have any governance around this type of scenario.

Athy Rugby Club in Kildare can't get any Public Liability Insurance because of previous and outstanding claims against them, all non-rugby related. Running the serious risk of having to shutdown if not resolved in the next week.

This is a worry for every sports club in the country with their own grounds.

How does GAA Public Liability insurance work?

Former Kerry team nutritionist and Listowel native Kevin Beasley has now joined the Donegal Management Team.
He was highly respected with the Kerry players during Eamon Fitzmaurice time in charge.
How did Peter Keane let this highly rated nutritionist leave Kerry to go North ?
Also Kerry Senior Team expenses went from 353,294 in 2018 to 534,883 in 2019 ... is it all the steak (well done) they are eating ?

That sounds insane...

A game changer for Dublin.

Brilliant manager.

Opens up the 2020 Championship a little...

Just because you're a genuine GAA person doesn't mean your ideas are any good.

Very much this.

I'll repeat ad infinitum that there is no solution to the current fixtures impasse until the culture of postponing games until county players return, is reversed.

What the average club player in Ireland needs from the CPA, more than anything, is leadership in this regard. Leadership who are prepared to recognise the root cause of the problem, and implement the process of acceptance.


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It never fails to amuse/amaze me that clubs will dig their heels in for months waiting for Jonny to come back from county commitments, but will carry on regardless with matches when Jonny then buggers off to America after a couple of club training sessions.

It's a mindset thing. Which means it can be changed with little effort.

I agree 100%

Would no league relegation help change that mentality?

Next year's league standings are decided on this years championship performance? E.g Division 1 2020 would be your championship quarter-finalists from 2019. 8 team division home and away. 14 league games to played through April to July.

Poch sacked!!

Pooch for Arsenal!!!!

Mickey Burke, honest as the day is long, always came across as a good egg.

Dinny you've replied to my comments on why 17 year olds drop out of sport, by citing an article about an under-14 policy in a club falling down with players.

This is not the same thing.

There may be come correlation here, but unless Nemo are also keeping their stronger juvenile players on board as well, and playing junior football while their old teammates  "jump ahead" of them, then it's the same situation anyhow.

You were talking about teenagers when I quoted you not specifically 17 years old. I think your attitude is wrong and symptomatic of why clubs are struggling with numbers. Unless a kid is competitive at x, y, z age he won't play adult sport to me is simply mind boggling. Since when did playing sport solely become about winning? No wonder clubs are dying on their feet.

https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/sport/493869/open-letter-a-young-player-s-view.html

What a lot of you seem to fail to realise is that young players all develop physically, mentally and emotionally at different rates.

Just because a boy or girl doesn't feel that competitive or winning edge at 13 doesn't mean they won't feel it later at 17/18 or 20/21. You complain that you don't have the numbers etc etc but if you don't change your coaching values, your club values and how as a collective you do things, how do expect things to change?

The GAA is suppose to be about community and not only as a pathway to adult sport. Wobbler says he knows after a few Adult B games whether a 17 year old will be playing at 21, a 17 year old who is studying for exams, dealing with hormones, still not physically, emotionally or mentally mature. Have you ever asked yourself why? You need a much broader mind than that.

Dinny what you're suggesting here is that I'm fuelling this dropout, and my "narrow mind" is maybe even actively pursuing it.

If so, it's absolute nonsense. These are not actions. They are observations gained from spending 25 years involved at the entry point to adult football.

Someone else suggests that drink and women are the reason for dropouts. He's wrong. It's not drink and women that's the issue. Nor is it age grades. Some people just don't like competitive sport enough to work hard at it. As mentioned before, this does not make them weak, strange, disappointing, cowardly, or unfulfilled. It's perfectly norma behaviour and is reflected among teenagers in every competitive sport across the world. It's not a GAA issue. It's just people being people.

I played with dozens of senior players who partied hard. But they'd still find a way to make training, and on match days left no quarter given. Because competitive sport was a priority in their life.

When people can accept this simple reality, they can focus on ensuring that players who have that drive are given every opportunity to progress through the ranks, regardless of ability. Clubs will prosper.

This article might give you something to think about, you can change your thinking after 25 years , I wonder where Nemo would be now if they only picked the competitive boys at 13,14,15.....

https://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2018/02/22/news/we-don-t-care-if-we-lose-ye-will-all-get-a-game-joe-kavanagh-on-nemo-s-famous-underage-policy-1261352/

Brolly v Wolly
Ewan McKenna v Eddie O'Sullivan

...Someone explain to me why I'm drawn to going to this. Am I ok?

What is it, Celebrity Death Match??

Spewan outdid himself again this week. Tweeted that Gay Byrne was a "vile pr1ck". Deleted it when he sobered up. Alcoholism may explain some of his problems.

Didn't Ewan's Daddy work for RTE?

Of those 4 I could only tolerate Parkinson. Why is he taking on a Barrister, he'll be destroyed.

Zero interest either way.

[Wobbler says he knows after a few Adult B games whether a 17 year old will be playing at 21,]

What a lot of you seem to fail to realise is that young players all develop physically, mentally and emotionally at different rates.

Just because a boy or girl doesn't feel that competitive or winning edge at 13 doesn't mean they won't feel it later at 17/18 or 20/21. You complain that you don't have the numbers etc etc but if you don't change your coaching values, your club values and how as a collective you do things, how do expect things to change?

The GAA is suppose to be about community and not only as a pathway to adult sport. Wobbler says he knows after a few Adult B games whether a 17 year old will be playing at 21, a 17 year old who is studying for exams, dealing with hormones, still not physically, emotionally or mentally mature. Have you ever asked yourself why? You need a much broader mind than that.

There has been some mad dog sh*t talked in this thread, [some of it by you Dinny which is a surprise as you are usually fairly sensible], but that by Wobbler takes first prize by a country mile.

No of us are sensible, we wouldn't be here if we were....

What a lot of you seem to fail to realise is that young players all develop physically, mentally and emotionally at different rates.

Just because a boy or girl doesn't feel that competitive or winning edge at 13 doesn't mean they won't feel it later at 17/18 or 20/21. You complain that you don't have the numbers etc etc but if you don't change your coaching values, your club values and how as a collective you do things, how do expect things to change?

The GAA is suppose to be about community and not only as a pathway to adult sport. Wobbler says he knows after a few Adult B games whether a 17 year old will be playing at 21, a 17 year old who is studying for exams, dealing with hormones, still not physically, emotionally or mentally mature. Have you ever asked yourself why? You need a much broader mind than that.