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I see Terry Hyland has retired Emlyn Mulligan!
Seems like Hyland didn't take to kindly to him walking away from the panel last summer. Reading his interview today, he's not retired but knows he won't play for Leitrim again until a new manager is in place.
Every county has players based in Dublin. Thats not it.Hold up. You state that you can't do the basics because the money is tied up in the senior team, and if they struggle, you have less money, so proportionally more has to go into the senior team.
Thats the business model of a league of Ireland club that went bust in the 60's after two seasons.
What do you mean by can't do the basics? Mayo have 4 full time coaches and that's all that can be afforded with the current GD funding being received. Brolly is proposing to spend ~€280k per year on 8 coaches with no guarantee where the money comes from.
The senior team largely pays for itself. Go far in the championship and more commercial/fundraising money comes in, get knocked out early and less money is spent.
Sigh. I'll type it slowly.
You cant afford coaches to go out and spread the games, but you can afford to spend what is by a distance the most that is spent on an individual team. And this spending is conditional on the the income generated by team going a certain distance. If they don't you cant pay the bills. That is by definition unsustainable.
The most Spent by a considerable distance, I’m not sure if that’s accurate but there needs to be context added to such a statement. Two years ago there was twenty panel members living in Dublin , I assume that figure hasn’t changed much , do you realize how much more expense that adds to the yearly bill compared to the polar opposite of say Dublin who would very few if any based outside the county . There is much more to consider , logistics are a fuc ing nightmare.
It's not what? Travelling expenses amounted to €927,444 in 2019.
Paul Flynn really can't be the sharpest knife in the drawer if he can't see how flying dozens and dozens of people over to the US every year looks terrible, when there are clubhouses up & down the country without running water, hot showers, proper dressing rooms, enough equipment etc etcI don't think the GPA ever pretended to have anything to do with anything other than intercounty players.
All Star trips and the annual team holiday for AI winners are one thing. I don't think anyone has a problem with them. At least I don't. But spending truck loads of money on junkets (with loads of hangers on) to play a bastardized version of hurling that serves no purpose whatsoever, does not sit well with people.
The money could be better spent elsewhere, whether it's their own money, the GAA's or the sponsors. If he can't see that, it's a damming inditement of just how out of touch with reality he & the rest of the GPA are.
I know that.
But the wider population are ordinary rank and file GAA club members. They are the ones who see how hard life is at grass roots level. They are the ones who have a problem with all these US junkets & they are the people Paul Flynn doesn't seem to understand having a problem.
Fair play for admitting that Beffs. It's plain old mindless begrudgery! Who do these fookers think they are swanning off to New York where Irish Americans give give them a load of dosh.
Instead what should be done, is a random draw among all club members where 60 players from around the country are picked to go to the US to play a match where the yanks can pay $80 a ticket and thousands for dinner to meet these great club people.
And all the excess proceeds can go to the list of clubs that Beffs is going to tell us about that don't even have running water.
What a marvellous idea. I'm sure it's a winner.
It is amazing how begrudgery makes people forget to switch on their brains
I don't think anyone has an issue with IC players travelling and playing the exhibition games.
It's more than people in the travelling party who don't seem to have a particular reason for being there - see my previous post.
I do, in the absence of an explanation as to where the money goes
The players will get a daily allowance I'd suggest and I'm basing that on what we got when travelling to NYC when they were in the old Ulster hurling championship, but I'd hazard it's a lot more than the $40 a day I got back in the noughties.
Paul Flynn really can't be the sharpest knife in the drawer if he can't see how flying dozens and dozens of people over to the US every year looks terrible, when there are clubhouses up & down the country without running water, hot showers, proper dressing rooms, enough equipment etc etcI don't think the GPA ever pretended to have anything to do with anything other than intercounty players.
All Star trips and the annual team holiday for AI winners are one thing. I don't think anyone has a problem with them. At least I don't. But spending truck loads of money on junkets (with loads of hangers on) to play a bastardized version of hurling that serves no purpose whatsoever, does not sit well with people.
The money could be better spent elsewhere, whether it's their own money, the GAA's or the sponsors. If he can't see that, it's a damming inditement of just how out of touch with reality he & the rest of the GPA are.
I know that.
But the wider population are ordinary rank and file GAA club members. They are the ones who see how hard life is at grass roots level. They are the ones who have a problem with all these US junkets & they are the people Paul Flynn doesn't seem to understand having a problem.
Fair play for admitting that Beffs. It's plain old mindless begrudgery! Who do these fookers think they are swanning off to New York where Irish Americans give give them a load of dosh.
Instead what should be done, is a random draw among all club members where 60 players from around the country are picked to go to the US to play a match where the yanks can pay $80 a ticket and thousands for dinner to meet these great club people.
And all the excess proceeds can go to the list of clubs that Beffs is going to tell us about that don't even have running water.
What a marvellous idea. I'm sure it's a winner.
It is amazing how begrudgery makes people forget to switch on their brains
Did anyone hear something about a well known political Cavan family being involved?
https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/mayo-gaa-threatened-with-high-court-injunction-as-governance-row-takes-fresh-twist-38705954.html
More craic.
That said, if the geezer isn't a paid up member, he isn't a paid up member...
The 'geezer' is a well known and respected journalist here in Mayo. If he didn't pay by March 31st then he hasn't a leg to stand on I know, but you'd think the procedure would be explained by whoever to him.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/the-inside-story-mayo-the-county-board-and-the-row-with-the-millionaire-38675616.html
But the GAA pay for that...
Brolly v WollyWhat is it, Celebrity Death Match??
Ewan McKenna v Eddie O'Sullivan
...Someone explain to me why I'm drawn to going to this. Am I ok?
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?
If anyones up in Dublin, il give you a tour of Innisfails grounds.
PM me.
the sports centre in Adamstown.
Not too much in Adamstown Lar apart from an abandoned train station and a ton of Nigerians!
You're better than that Heffo.
The GAA shouldn't be funding them full stop. If the players want a union they should fund it themselves. If they want to be treated like soccer and rugby they should have to pony up like they do. And thats before the whole neutered topic comes up.Just read Joe Brollys comments on GPA , spot on IMO.Surely the gaa shouldn't be funding them until accounts are submitted for scrutiny every year?
They don’t disclose who and how much gets paid what.
Are they full time or part time ?.
Wonder what the ratio of their salaries are as to what individual players in D3 and D4 get in annual mileage etc.
Probably a good idea in the very beginning as I am sure a lot of players were begging for mileage allowance, healthcare, but the lack of transparency and their mega fund raising dinners in the US
just raises a lot of genuine questions that apparently will not be answered.
If Joe has any questions about how GPA money is being spent he can download the accounts and refer to actual figures rather than making wild assumptions.
If anyones up in Dublin, il give you a tour of Innisfails grounds.
PM me.
the sports centre in Adamstown.
I may be wrong... but I’m gonna call bullshit on the Gaybo catching Joe skinny dipping story!!!
