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Great piece on " Beefer " in Gaeliic Life " this week, still has his sense of humour intact ! hope the big man makes a full recovery.

is there anyone out there with a copy of " gaels in the sun " ? saw it many years ago, would be great to read it now.

armagh politics doesnt concern me lads, just expressing my opinion on the subject. What have Armagh harps won in the past 10 years ?

If you get him out to coach mentors in your club he will go through all that child psychology stuff which if you research it is all fact and all the statistics are absolutely correct. As regards not winning c/ships etc there is more to this than having a quality coach. You have to have a quality panel of players,a quality manager @ selectors  to select the right players and make the right calls on the line, quality facilities, medical teams and total support from co board etc. Im not so sure Morrison has been blessed with this type of support with a lot of the county teams he was involved with and therefore a lot of the quality work on the training pitch was undermined by a lack of some or all of the above.

Sorry Duffleking, Im not the man himself, just a fan of his methods etc and that article is a good insight into what the Breffni men can expect.

Thanks Armaghgeddon, that just about sums up what Morrison is about and whqat he will bring to Cavan, quality coaching and players should be knocking down the door to get on the panel.

has anyone got a link to the article in the anglocelt ?

Its going to be very interesting as Val is a great guy as well and the set up will be top quality stuff, if the players buy into it they could be a surprise packet next year.Training will be short,sharp and mentally and physically challenging so the bluffers will be rooted out very early ! ( and the boozers ) !!

definitely unorthodox but absolutely a quality coach at all levels, he does workshops for the Ulster council and Dublin coaching dept and literally dozens of clubs north and south regularly have him do clinics, advance camps, mentor sessions etc. Sample session from  " GAME SENSE " book is on Dublin coaching and games website, it has ten different sessions covering all aspects of gaelic games and is an absolute must for coaches at club and county level.

caroline currid is currently working with dublin seniors, was with tipp hurlers last year.

his most recent one " game sense " can be bought in parnell park from the coaching dept, earlier ones are very hard to come by as croke park refused to recognize them at the time as he didnt get their permission to write them !try the ulster council maybe ?

i have seen him coaching nursery, juvenile and senior club and county teams and he is the absolute business. check out his books and also coaching articles in gaelic life and on the leitrim website, attention to detail unreal and solutions for any problem a player may have.

Morrison @ mickey paid for the floodlit pitch for training themselves as the mayo co board wouldnt pick up the tab !  fact

name a better coaching manual than any of the above ?

yes pretty sure he was involved at some stage with Antrim, has anyone used his coaching manuals ? most of the modern day conditioned games come from him, Philip Kerr and Terence Mc williams and have been used extensively by most successfull county and club teams in the past ten years.