GPA Team of the year just announced

[Armamike]

Sympathy vote for McMenamin and McMahon!

Why would anyone have sympathy for Champions?

Because there has been that much wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past few weeks about their exclusion from the all stars. The Irish news was up in arms - they couldn't comprehend it, particularly in McMahon's case. Reminds me to a lesser degree of the Paddy Bradley saga a couple of years back.  There was that much crying from the Irish news and the boul Paddy himself over the years, they eventually said f**k it, take the bloody thing. 

[boojangles]

Without getting into the merits of who actually deserved an award, I don't think that too many can argue that the GPA do a lot of point scoring with their awards. They basically ensure that anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one.

Cant agree there.The team is picked by the players so unless they forget about all the votes and just pick there own team,cant see how its a way of making up for players who didnt get All-Stars.I think the GPA team lately has reflected the real Team of the Year.
Joe McMahon was nominated against Alan Brogan and Redmond Barry.

[under the bar]

Without getting into the merits of who actually deserved an award, I don't think that too many can argue that the GPA do a lot of point scoring with their awards. They basically ensure that anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one.

Eh?  The players vote, not the GPA governing body!  Unlike the Allstars which are picked by the Dubs/Kerry-salivating southern media whores, the GPA awards actually have some credibility.

[Tyrone Dreamer]

   

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O'Connor bemoans Kerry players' non-selection

Kerry manager Jack O'Connor
31 October 2008


Former Kerry team-manager and Chairman of the GPA football team of the year selection committee, Jack O'Connor, has expressed his disappointment that not more Kerry players made the chosen XV.


Copied that from the hoganstand. Does the selection committee just pick the players that are nominated for the team of the year and then the players all get a vote on who is actually selected?

[paddypastit]

Does the selection committee just pick the players that are nominated for the team of the year and then the players all get a vote on who is actually selected?

Precisely

[rrhf]

When does this award ceremony take place?

[orangeman]

When does this award ceremony take place?

After Donal get's things sorted in Cork.

[ExiledGael]

Without getting into the merits of who actually deserved an award, I don't think that too many can argue that the GPA do a lot of point scoring with their awards. They basically ensure that anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one.

100% right. It's a little pathetic, think there a lot more negative than positive reasons for their own scheme.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Without getting into the merits of who actually deserved an award, I don't think that too many can argue that the GPA do a lot of point scoring with their awards. They basically ensure that anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one.

100% right. It's a little pathetic, think there a lot more negative than positive reasons for their own scheme.

Just like Colm Mc Cullagh, eh?

[ExiledGael]

Without getting into the merits of who actually deserved an award, I don't think that too many can argue that the GPA do a lot of point scoring with their awards. They basically ensure that anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one.

100% right. It's a little pathetic, think there a lot more negative than positive reasons for their own scheme.

Just like Colm Mc Cullagh, eh?

Despite your own views Joe McMahon's absence was the story and lead headline in all the papers on the day after the All-Stars.
Maximum exposure and playing the media.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Despite your own views Joe McMahon's absence was the story and lead headline in all the papers on the day after the All-Stars.
Maximum exposure and playing the media.

One poster says that "...anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one." And you said that that was one hundred percent correct.

There was controversy over Mc Cullagh's omission (whether it was the main controversy or not is totallly irrelevant to the primary allegation). So you're both wrong (despite what you may think yourself).

[Bud Wiser]

Being a GPA member is not a prerequisite.

T'would be fairly uncomfortable teeing off to the first hole of the K Club for the annual gig if you were not a member and had being voted on the team of the year by your fellow players.  Does anyone know:

Is Shane Ryan a member?
Do players who are not members get to vote?
Is the selection down to the players only? (Or is it a charade and then the real decisions are made ala Cork Hurlers, "this is our decision and if you don't like it we are off")

Can anyone positively state the answers to all of these three questions?

[The GAA]

Surely if non gpa members were voted it'd be called the "non gpa" team of the year?

are there many county players who aren't members?

[ExiledGael]

Despite your own views Joe McMahon's absence was the story and lead headline in all the papers on the day after the All-Stars.
Maximum exposure and playing the media.

One poster says that "...anyone that was controversially left out of the real All Stars gets a GPA one." And you said that that was one hundred percent correct.

There was controversy over Mc Cullagh's omission (whether it was the main controversy or not is totallly irrelevant to the primary allegation). So you're both wrong (despite what you may think yourself).

OK the original use of the word 'anyone' was slightly misleading. Personally I don't think McCullagh was 'controversially' left out.

[Armamike]

I don't recall much of a rumpus about McCullough's omission from the all-stars. Maybe around Dromore.