GPA exceptionalism

[tiempo]

4th February 2025, the day 4 were selected above all others and announced as brand ambassadors for Solgar UK & Ireland, the new vitamin partners of the GAA/GPA and title sponsors of the GAA museum.

Honest to God make it stop

[Rossfan]

God doesn't care what the GAA do.

[tiempo]

All that history twinned with a compound and filler in a tasty gelatin shell

I bet the canapés were just scrumptious

[tiempo]

Ask not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

[BigGreenField]

Gaa Volunteer Underage coaches estimated to sacrifice lifetime earnings of 1.7 billion, seems about right and as much relevance.

[samuel maguire]

Ask not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

I think the report is well put together and puts the pressure on the government to cough up. Can only be a good thing.

[Tubberman]

Ask not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

I think the report is well put together and puts the pressure on the government to cough up. Can only be a good thing.

Absolute bullshit, particularly in the successful counties.
They're all well looked after with endorsements and jobs that they would never get without their GAA profile.

[BigGreenField]

Ask not what you can do for your county, but what your county cartel can do for you

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2025/0212/1496237-county-players-incurring-financial-losses-says-report/

Current GPA members are projected to suffer a cumulative lifetime earnings reduction of €31 million


Sweet suffering Jesus

Anything to be said for a lay ministers association?

I think the report is well put together and puts the pressure on the government to cough up. Can only be a good thing.

Disagree (it is a good report) however it's an amateur game and this is the bedrock (although distorted)

Make choices on career vs GAA as suits the individual or not - up to them, being compensated for those choices is professionalism.

Alternative is to scale back the level of commitment needed - I don't see the GPA lobbying for that.

The modern club player puts in a huge shift - should they be compensated, juvenile coaches taking teams a couple if nights a week, leaving work early, giving up Saturdays, how about them? Should raffle ticket sellers get commission?

The GAA provides great opportunity as well as demands , the balance is out at the minute but loading more resource into the inter county game isn't the way to go.

[tiempo]

Do the GPA think the facilities the players use at no cost just magically appear? Have they accounted for the tens of millions of volunteer hours that brought the players to this point? Its not like the players are having to fork out to participate, they are grant funded, cut your cloth accordingly

Many moons ago Michael Murphy said his inter-county lifestyle choices weren't putting his life on hold, its how he chose to live his life. It costs to live, it costs to do anything, the GAA has an amateur ethos, the GPA have a stick up their ass and peddle this to extort more money from any available source, its their raison d'être

[Rossfan]

A Trade Union exists to seek better pay and conditions for it's members.

[thewobbler]

It's time for a game of chicken with the GPA.

Give them a time window next season, say 5-6 weeks, and give them carte blanche to hire any GAA stadium they like, and organise any competition format they like. They can then divvy up the profits any which way they like.

I don't think there's a chance in hell they'd take up the offer.

And it might help them understand that GAA followers don't go to watch players. They go to watch their schools, parishes and counties.

[Rossfan]

Err...they go to watch players playing for parishes/areas, Counties or schools.
I don't think you'll get many people to stand watching a school for an hour ( unless.....)

[Captain Scarlet]

They need to put these things out to crank up the pressure but what annoys me is that they NEVER speak out against the managers.

The boys in Croker don't have a big fuckin spreeadsheet where they plan trainings for early morning or other times. The 'GAA' are not demanding the time from lads, it's the managers and the players chose to be part of it.

Also, Educational losses when any decent lad gets plenty of scholarship perks. Car pooling and all claming the expenses too...

Like do they really want scrutiny. What was the rumblings re the Africa charity trip? They refused to take questions on it.

[tiempo]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41556919.html

[SaffronSports]

What's the issue with the Kenya trip? I know there has been a couple of Antrim ones went the last few years and they always seemed to be doing fundraising for it?