Joe Brolly

[longballin]

If a GAA manager is getting paid I think he's fair game for a pundits criticism... not sure if McGeeney got paid or not 

[Throw ball]

If a GAA manager is getting paid I think he's fair game for a pundits criticism... not sure if McGeeney got paid or not 

If a pundit criticises someone he is fair game for others to suggest he is talking rubbish.

[AZOffaly]

Part of the problem with the perception of Geezer is epitomised in that phrase "you'd go to war with/for him". We are not going to war. We are playing a game of football.

[Donnellys Hollow]

Part of the problem with the perception of Geezer is epitomised in that phrase "you'd go to war with/for him". We are not going to war. We are playing a game of football.

http://www.sportsjoe.ie/gaa/is-anyone-else-starting-to-get-worried-about-joe-brollys-continuous-use-of-war-analogies/32031

[Dinny Breen]

There is actually a campaign within the IRFU to get coaches in post game interviews to remove analogies like "a battlefield" or "hospital wards" or talking up "big hits" or "smashing players".

[StGallsGAA]

Why are analogies like "smashing players" being discouraged?  Surely every manager getting results would consider his players smashing lads?  Particularly Tony Pulis!

[longballin]

If a GAA manager is getting paid I think he's fair game for a pundits criticism... not sure if McGeeney got paid or not 

If a pundit criticises someone he is fair game for others to suggest he is talking rubbish.

absolutely...

[smelmoth]

Excellent article by Brolly in today's Indo about the savagery of MMA.

Have to agree. Great piece. Not only MMA but he highlighted the brutality that happens in boxing as well. "Savagery" describes it perfectly.

Wise up

Can't argue with that. Great argument - really dissects the issue

[smelmoth]

Brolly figuratively chasing ambulances now. Pity. He has more to offer than this.

Boxing is one of the best and purest forms of sports in existence.

There is no link between professional boxing and purity

Aside from the promotional bullshit the old issue of having punches to the head as a key aim of the game makes the whole thing hard to stomach

[smelmoth]

Very little of substance in the Carew article. Could sumarise it as "I like my friend"

[Beffs]

Part of the problem with the perception of Geezer is epitomised in that phrase "you'd go to war with/for him". We are not going to war. We are playing a game of football.

Or that his players would "run through walls for him".

If I was from Armagh or Kildare, I'd much prefer that his players would stick the ball in the back of the net, put in a few blocks and bang over a few long range points....than any of that run through walls shite. 

[Ohtoohtobe]

When McGeeney took over Kildare, we'd lost in the first round of Leinster for three of the previous four seasons.
He took us to five All-Ireland quarter-finals in a row in his first five seasons. He doesn't get enough credit for that.
The turning point of his reign was the Johnston decision, a colossal error of judgement that derailed the whole thing.
But that doesn't change the fact that he had done a very good job up to that.

[imtommygunn]

A big factor in his fortunes in armagh, i suspect, is the fact that so few cross players have commited. Clearly they have the best players in the county but barely a one there. Whether that is his fault or not i do not know.

[Disillusioned]

A big factor in his fortunes in armagh, i suspect, is the fact that so few cross players have commited. Clearly they have the best players in the county but barely a one there. Whether that is his fault or not i do not know.

Their absence says a lot more about the Cross players and those influencing their choice not to answer a call to play for the county while they await another Cross man in charge.

There is also little account taken of the fact that the Cross team is a great example of how the collective can be much more than the sum of its parts and how a myth/legend of invincibility can become reality in the minds of the opposition.  In reality there are not many Cross players in 2016 who would walk on to any county team in Ulster.    Apart from the established county players, other players who have been key to the success for Cross in the last 3/4 years have not shown the same impact at county level. 

[imtommygunn]

I'm not having a go at cross but to be a success as a manager  you need the buy in of everyone and McGeeney just doesn't seem to have that which means he is very much fighting an uphill battle. Whether that be his own fault or not I do not know.

There are 3-4 players anyway from cross who would make a very positive difference to the armagh team.

I would still say there is barely a better player in Armagh than Aaron Kernan. (In fact there aren't that many anywhere)