Kildare team doctor to ignore new sideline rule

rodney trotter · January 30, 2013, 11:42:51 PM

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This seems to be a presidency of ludicrous hobby-horses. It's not as if everywhere you go in GAAdom the number of the support crew on the line is the first thing on everybody's lips. O'Neill would spend his time better by concentrating on the real problems in the game.
Yes and no. There is a culture in the club game especially for the sideline to be packed with subs, injured players, recently retired players, up and coming players, administrators, and mascots. Not to mention managers, selectors, coaches, and medical staff. In Down league football it can be a joke. In Down Championship football we are allowed 11 (yes, 11) non-players on the sideline (figures correct as of 2010, this might have since changed). Frankly it's daft. On a practical level, being a linesman is actually impossible when two entourage-laden teams meet. It almost inevitably falls into "you're not telling them to move off the pitch" whataboutery.

If they can get this madness out of the county game, then it'll be easier to make/enforce the same demand at club level. And I believe that's what they're trying to do.

In club championship in Derry it is secretary, chairman, physio and manager. Seems to work well.

It's not. We had 7 men on the line a couple of years ago. Ludicrous!! Secretary and Chairman have no business whatsoever being on the sideline. Manager, Assistant, Physio, Doctor . . . sin é

Agree the secretary and Chairman shouldn't be there. Too many people having opinions. and then trying to influence the manager and selector into making decisions.

A decent manager should not be listening to a secretary or chairman or anyone else other than a selector.

Secretary normally has to be near the manager to make as they normally keep account of subs.

So for a club Team it is going to have to be Manager, Selector, Physio and Secretary.

Yeah the secreatary probaly does need to be there but not the chairman, didn't mean to make it sound like the manager listened to what was being said by whoever was on the line. He is there for a reason , selector would be the only input

Hardy · January 31, 2013, 10:20:50 AM

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Jinxy · January 31, 2013, 10:24:32 PM

The flourbags flouting GAA rules again.
'Quelle surprise' as we say in Meath.

mylestheslasher · February 01, 2013, 08:57:15 AM

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I think a new rule book should be introduced for Kildare, full of blank pages they can fill in themselves.

Or give them a rule book and some tip-ex that they can take out the ones they don't like.

seafoid · February 01, 2013, 11:01:32 AM

Quote from: Jinxy on January 31, 2013, 10:24:32 PM
The flourbags flouting GAA rules again.
'Quelle surprise' as we say in Meath.

The Meath accent is great for the ould French "r"

NAG1 · February 01, 2013, 11:27:57 AM

This is one of the things that soccer have actually got right, looks ridiculous at some of these games with 20 lads up and down the line. The Doctor should be on the bench with the subs and if required by the physio called on but not before it. Otherwise the designated box for the Manager only would clean a lot of this up.