Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[Wee Roddy]

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    Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
« Reply #22308 on: January 06, 2012, 04:55:45 PM »   

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One one hand we have the Carrickmore club volunteering the move of a large piece of GAA heritage over 100mile up the road for people to sit down in and watch any brawls that may erupt through their execution of our great game and on the other hand we see the club pay out large sums for their employees to manage their adult teams. It's great to see a club with such a diverse perspective of the GAA and its culture and the importance heaped upon the volunteer to the strength of our organisation.

Such a club being what it is it's not a surprise that it seems to dominate the entries on this forum



Written like a true professional. You should take up journalism for a profession my friend

[Up The Middle]

Something you want to tell us Roddy

[Whats it all about]

St. Joseph's College retain the Tyrone under 16 Vocational Title for the second year.  Great performance from both teams and ref made sure it was a good hard but fair game.
Some result for the College

[Heartbroken]

Eglish appointing Mickey Donnelly as their new manager.

[tyronehead]

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Posts: 5
County: Tyrone

    Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
« Reply #22308 on: January 06, 2012, 04:55:45 PM »   

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One one hand we have the Carrickmore club volunteering the move of a large piece of GAA heritage over 100mile up the road for people to sit down in and watch any brawls that may erupt through their execution of our great game and on the other hand we see the club pay out large sums for their employees to manage their adult teams. It's great to see a club with such a diverse perspective of the GAA and its culture and the importance heaped upon the volunteer to the strength of our organisation.

Such a club being what it is it's not a surprise that it seems to dominate the entries on this forum



Written like a true professional. You should take up journalism for a profession my friend

A good write up in todays Irish Independent about the mercenary men and clubs breaking rules paying managers.A great piece and one actually worth thinking about the contradictions and hypocrisy so rife in our association .
The place is full of money grabbing managers , media types ,involved in college football all under the pretence of being football mad , don't be fooled these people are only interested in money .There seems to be a glut of them around the Derry border !!

[MCO]

Eglish appointing Mickey Donnelly as their new manager.

Interesting appointment, him being from their neighbouring club, good to see Eglish identifying the recent increase in fuel costs. Big year for Eglish and as to whether they can progress on from last year when they had a good start but faded somewhat.

[Up The Middle]

MCO
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Posts: 5
County: Tyrone

    Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
« Reply #22308 on: January 06, 2012, 04:55:45 PM »   

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One one hand we have the Carrickmore club volunteering the move of a large piece of GAA heritage over 100mile up the road for people to sit down in and watch any brawls that may erupt through their execution of our great game and on the other hand we see the club pay out large sums for their employees to manage their adult teams. It's great to see a club with such a diverse perspective of the GAA and its culture and the importance heaped upon the volunteer to the strength of our organisation.

Such a club being what it is it's not a surprise that it seems to dominate the entries on this forum



Written like a true professional. You should take up journalism for a profession my friend

A good write up in todays Irish Independent about the mercenary men and clubs breaking rules paying managers.A great piece and one actually worth thinking about the contradictions and hypocrisy so rife in our association .
The place is full of money grabbing managers , media types ,involved in college football all under the pretence of being football mad , don't be fooled these people are only interested in money .There seems to be a glut of them around the Derry border !!

You have some bee in your bonnet about this glut of managers from round the derry border, this must be the 3rd our 4th time you have posted this.

[Radda bout yeee]

Kildress have appointed former Derry and Lavey player johnny mcgurk as manager.

[The Bog Savage]

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County: Tyrone

    Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
« Reply #22308 on: January 06, 2012, 04:55:45 PM »   

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One one hand we have the Carrickmore club volunteering the move of a large piece of GAA heritage over 100mile up the road for people to sit down in and watch any brawls that may erupt through their execution of our great game and on the other hand we see the club pay out large sums for their employees to manage their adult teams. It's great to see a club with such a diverse perspective of the GAA and its culture and the importance heaped upon the volunteer to the strength of our organisation.

Such a club being what it is it's not a surprise that it seems to dominate the entries on this forum



Written like a true professional. You should take up journalism for a profession my friend

A good write up in todays Irish Independent about the mercenary men and clubs breaking rules paying managers.A great piece and one actually worth thinking about the contradictions and hypocrisy so rife in our association .
The place is full of money grabbing managers , media types ,involved in college football all under the pretence of being football mad , don't be fooled these people are only interested in money .There seems to be a glut of them around the Derry border !!

Sounds like someone nots happy bout not gettin the senior job

[everymanaman]

Kildress have appointed former Derry and Lavey player johnny mcgurk as manager.

First training session will focus heavily on trash talking

[wheres he takin er from]

Kildress have appointed former Derry and Lavey player johnny mcgurk as manager.

First training session will focus heavily on trash talking

Don't think kildress players need any training in that dept lol

[everymanaman]

Kildress have appointed former Derry and Lavey player johnny mcgurk as manager.

First training session will focus heavily on trash talking

Don't think kildress players need any training in that dept lol

Might bring a more cultured tone to the one liners though

[LeoMc]

Kildress have appointed former Derry and Lavey player johnny mcgurk as manager.

Shhhh. Don't tell MCO.

[nrico2006]

I don't see how it is the managers fault for wanting the money and getting it, surely the fault is with the club for paying them.  I know most on here wouldn't turn down the money that is being talked about if they got the chance.

[MCO]

I don't see how it is the managers fault for wanting the money and getting it, surely the fault is with the club for paying them.  I know most on here wouldn't turn down the money that is being talked about if they got the chance.

I have no argument whatsoever with payments, its just a useful exercise from time to time to give ourselves a bit of a health check in light of our own hypocrisy.
Johnny McGurk would have a 60 mile round journey ahead of him which is a modest trip compared to some managers but nevertheless I wouldn't blame him or anyone else for taking payment for this role. To potentially leave your family on average three nights a week for approximately 4hours a night, spend one or two additional hours a day organising and planning, potentially disrupt or interfere with you own work or career, disrupt your own family and personal life, endure the stress and scrutiny and at times abuse from your adopted club supporters and all this in the pursuit of delivering success at a GAA club that isn't even your own would ask serious questions about a man's sanity.
People who would go after this role without some sort of considerable reimbursement are usually either financially quite well off or are mentally unstable and indeed what you find is that the both can quite often be the case.
I don't see how anybody in the GAA can argue against these payments when we see fit to employ full time staff at all levels of our organisation. eg. a man can be a coach for the Ulster Council, working from 9am to 5pm during the week but is not allowed to work for a club doing practically the same job in the evenings and at the weekend, complete nonsense