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McConville (who I actually quite like) claiming Rian O’Neill (his nephew) needs protection from refs. Have a day off Oisin.
In the preliminary quarter final you can’t play a team you played before - is that the same case for the quarter final? Only one possibility in the preliminary quarter final but could be two in the quarter final - might get restrictive enough.
My Iptv service has crashed since Wednesday. Anybody DM me a new one?
My annual subscription expires next week. Anyone advise a good one?
It's a fine line. Keeping all kids interested and giving them a love for the game. I'm with an U10s and we try to play all the kids. If we have more we maybe give them a kid for each half. Or I we are low we might put a younger sibling in the goal. Kids always want to know who wins but it's getting them active. The best will shine through. But the others get a sense of team and the club. Keeping them involved in gaa is the biggest result be it a fan or club member . I find soccer really tough on kids. My own lad couldn't even get into a club. Rugby I've no experience off.Our primary school tournaments are competitive, and we have a competitive league and a non-competitive league that run on the same day. We openly call it our competitive team and our development team. It works very well and every child that wants a game of football in P6 and 7 can go! There has to be some element of competition involved as children love competition from they're no age! They'll even race to the front of the dinner line if it means they win! A middle ground and common-sense approach is the best scenario. For underage games up to maybe u14 I would like a competitive half/quarter/third or whathever, of football and then a half where the score doesn’t count and everyone can get a go!
As someone said earlier, it’s the parents who are the problem 99% of the time! I have friends who turn into different people when it involves their own kids!! Usually becoming the people they once complained about themselves!
This. Parents should be f**king banned from Underage games. I have coached for a few years but as soon as my own kids are out of youth I am done with it and it is solely down to the parents. At U12.5 We had a policy that every player got at least a half. That did mean that better players got more game time as they usually stay on for the whole match. Looking back that might have been unfair as it meant the same players tended to get swapped out for each other but we decided it would be too difficult to try to give the same game time for everyone and we wanted to avoid the situation where we had 4-5 weaker players coming on en masse near the end, significantly weakening the team and frustrating the rest of the players.
on one memorable evening before the game I had one parent complaining about the lack of game time her u12.5 son was getting and threatening to take her son to a different club. I wouldnt have minded except she was going to take him to a larger club.To top it off, I went for a pint in the clubrooms afterwards with a couple of mates who have sons in the team and they were griping about us not playing our strongest team. They got a pretty colourful response on it.
I'm lucky and never had this experience with parents to be honest. But I have heard this plenty of times. Again I always made sure I everyone got equal game time. Heard plenty from the young fella about it though. So you can't win.
Rugby I think has an issue attracting and keeping kids. Heard participation numbers are down. But no first hand knowledge.
Soccer is all small sided games until 10 or 11 then it's gung go elite. Clubs poaching each others best players etc. If you don't run a good squad you can get humped 7 or 8 nil quite quickly and your best end up leaving. It's a real mess tbh.
How do rugby and soccer manage game time and deal with strong/weaker players it's not something that you hear parents in those sports giving out about?
In my experience soccer is considerably worse, less playing time and just playing the strongest team as long as they can get away with, with a few token minutes at the end maybe for subs
Too many coaches think they are Klopp or Guardiola
So HQ have dropped the big hammer on competitive club juvenile tournaments.
Knew it was coming but I’m disappointed.
We’d a good thing going in Down at u11.5. Non competitive leagues that allow teams to develop their weaker players, and a handful of club tournaments running concurrently, to allow the more developed and competitive players to test themselves fully.
There’s so many kids at 11 years old who want to push themselves and win things, and now they can’t. Not in Gaelic games anyway.
Developing the weak at the expense of the strong is a muddled strategy for any sport.
The more I think about this, it just reeks of “I don’t care if your Johnny doesn’t get anything out of our sport, so long as my Johnny doesn’t hate it”.
Danny Kennedy on BBC talking about the risk of Sinn Fein domination in some areas. Made a bit of an eejet out if himselfHis wider point is that there are prods in Slieve Gullion etc.and they are entitled to representation, so SF taking over entire areas doesn't help community relations, especially as SF reps likely won't go out of their way to help "the other side". Unionists need to help themselves by getting out and voting. Finucane handles himself well.
Exactly.Why don't you research coercive control?
The competent authorities are the ones who should be doing the investigating and prosecuting if appropriate. Not a volunteer board whose skillset is no more applicable to the problem than landing a man on the moon.
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Another question that is in my mind - why did (seemingly) none of this come out when custody of the children was up? Not casting doubt on the allegations, more on how did the combination of authorities/legal representation allow things to string along this far? Did NG receive extremely bad advice during the custody proceedings?
If the allegations are true, which inferring from a lack of strong denial from RG they would appear to have substance, then the systematic failure needs examined and rectified.
So RG had coercive control of NG's legal advisors and social services?
There must be a few GAA managers who are wifes beaters out there sweating it out!
So anyone can email a county board with an allegation and they must stand down the manager?
Who has actually said that?
It's not so much as said that, but people have done it and it works. The case here in question I'm totally behind Mrs Gallagher my point is that anyone can send an email or go on to social media and make claims about someone.
Would you be happy if you had allegations (true or false) made public via social media that would have wider implications on your kids and job and that would have even more implications on caring for your children should you lose your job over it?
The courts are there for a reason, to settle these issues. Court by social media though seems to be the way of the world.
Nobody is saying the courts should not do their job but right back at the beginning of this the “suspended pending investigation” route was explained and what steps you would need to take before suspending the individual.
Derry had their own decision to make and steps to take. All of which have already been set out.
Put yourself in Derry CB's position if they did get that email from Nicola's dad.
Your response would be that due to the seriousness of the allegations that he should go to the police with them.
In the meantime you'd have a duty of care to all to face Rory with what you've been informed about and as we've seen from his release, he probably told them (or would have told them) that these claims have been "dealt with" during the custody case and he's been cleared and now has custody of the children.
What do Derry CB do next?
They really can't be ignoring an email of that type all the same, that's really bad if they did.
Exactly.
The competent authorities are the ones who should be doing the investigating and prosecuting if appropriate. Not a volunteer board whose skillset is no more applicable to the problem than landing a man on the moon.
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Another question that is in my mind - why did (seemingly) none of this come out when custody of the children was up? Not casting doubt on the allegations, more on how did the combination of authorities/legal representation allow things to string along this far? Did NG receive extremely bad advice during the custody proceedings?
If the allegations are true, which inferring from a lack of strong denial from RG they would appear to have substance, then the systematic failure needs examined and rectified.
