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I haven't played for my club for 5 years years but moved into a new area (New county) and am going to try go back to play junior b and get involved in the club. Do i need to go through a transfer process? I don't think i need to given the timeframe but the new club feel i do.

Definitely. I needed one when playing in Australia even though I hadn't played club at home in about ten years!

I don't understand this.
If you haven't played in ten years, and you haven't been a member of a club in 10 years, surely all you need to do is register for your new club. You aren't a current member of the GAA, therefore you have no club to transfer from.

That's what I did

A few emails sent out today again!

one form mclarnon who is assistant treasurer running for treasurer, it details a very good cv and shows how experienced he is to do the job.

another one from south antrim chair to ask questions of saffron vision, he makes alot of very valid points in questioning their press release and its content and the fact some of them have been there before and didnt do much then.

he also attached the notorious voicemail lol anyone that hasnt heard it ask ur club secretary to forward the email!

we will need a live debate stephen nolan style shortly in days before convention!

Can you post the emails so we can see the CV?

[Wise up you fool, it happens everywhere and on every pitch, in every sport]

Lads Bonner was wrong.
No doubt about that.
Teamtalk were also wrong.

The bigger issue for Tyrone Gaa is sledging.
It has arisen as an issue for your Senior, Under 21 and minor teams this year.
Having attended quite a few senior club championship games in the county it seems to be fairly common in club games as well.

Wise up you fool, it happens everywhere and on every pitch, in every sport. Tyrone in the right so still try and turn it round to take a pot shot!

I hope they have finally dragged your county team of croke park or are they still there celebrating defeat?

And there it is.
The everybody does it defence so its okay.

Its does not happen in every sport

I would say it happens in the majority of sports.  I'm sure you could find the odd sport where it does happen, but in most team sports it is there and has always happened.

Yes and No
I believe it happens in most sports, but the nasty personal stuff is not as widespread.

I never wasted my energy on sledging. I was thought that a quiet opponent was a far better strategy. Never let the opposition know what your thinking!!!

But I've played with lads who never missed an opportunity to sledge when their maker made a mistake, which I believe is fair game, "bad miss" their warming up your replacement" etc, but not personal stuff about family

The first time I cam across the personal BS was playing against St Jarleths in a Hogan Cup final. During the national anthem a couple of their players never shut up about "it was their anthem" and that we were "Brits". It was totally lost on them that we were paying "their  anthem" the proper respect, and they were disrespecting it.

During the game, one of our players kept singing "take it down from the mast", which really got under the opponents skin.  And that's the other reason why I never sledged, you'll always come up against someone who can do it better than you!!!!!

Again I'll throw in the hurling question. What do you do with club players who play both hurling and football?

That's the truly hard question,

for me one solution is making football a autumn / winter sport and hurling a  spring summer sport
or make the club season last 6 months, and alternate the hurling football weekends in regards to priority

or for adults, football games are Sunday's, hurling games are Friday night etc

No easy solution, but the GAA needs to come up with a proposal some about this particular issue.

Getting rid of U-21 football, JHC, are they for real

Forgot one thing,

Eliminate development squads

Use the school system as development squads, or develop development schools for players of all abilities for clubs in a certain area and pick a development selection to play

At the moment, you can have a kid, playing three games in one week, and a couple of training sessions.

The week should be majority training, and one day of games

How many feckin' reports, to always come out with the same bs conclusions.

The solution is soooo feckin' easy it's a joke. In my mind they need to do something like the following

1 -Year divided up into playing seasons
     a) Club- (3-4 months priority)
     b) Intercounty (3-4 months priority)
     c) Schools and colleges  (3-4 months priority)

2 - Schedule games in an efficient manor, for example
     a) Club teams - Pick a day to play U-8 - U14 games - Play blitz's or league, doesn't matter, (for example; Friday Nights, Saturday mornings) then play the games U8 first, then U10 etc. This frees up the rest of the week for quality coaching
b) School competitions to be played during the same period (e.g. Dalton, Corn na Nog, Ranafast and MacRory played on the same day (just like schools rugby) One school plays the other in all competitions thus stopping lads playing for more than two teams) The atmosphere would be fantastic.
c) same with inter-county, senior, U21, U18 Junior, all played in the same period- forces counties to make squad decisions
d) league and championship to be run concurrently. No separate League and championship campaign, (or scrap 2nd rate provincial championships, and  condense championship

3) Club competitions can overlap inter-county and school competitions, but you can't play players who are on inter county / school teams (this actually stops burn out)

This might not be the complete answer, but in principle, overlapping competitions need to stop

The problem is not identifying the true Irish persona and using it to drive an Irish football style.

Brazil has a Brazilian style, likewise so do the Argentinians. Italy has a style that is appreciated by Italians and the French have theirs.

Irish football always seems to be looking for their style, without first recognizing what makes Irish people tick, and funneling that into their game, i.e. passion, work rate, attack minded game. Then develop a system whereby you can make it work.

Regarding soccer coaching quality, my lad plays soccer at a high level (in both the US and currently in England), and what amazes me is the different approach in coaching that he has experienced.

In the US, his coach for the past 3 years was Spanish, and he coached them a 4 3 3 formation , non tackle football, passing/ skill based games.

Basically, the philosophy is that kids shouldn't commit to a tackle if it is 50 -50 because 1 - if he misses the tackle he has handed the opp a numerical advantage, 2 -kids will pick up injuries if they keep flying into tackles.

He has coached them to tackle as a team, by forcing the opp to pass into areas that corner them, force them into kicking long or over the sideline, or into making mistakes. Once the opposition has made the mistake, the expectation is that my son's team need to jump onto the mistake, win the ball and transition into attack.

While in England, the biggest thing that they wanted out of my son is to put himself about and tackle hard, win the ball etc. etc. The coach said that he wasn't interested is the passing side, he wanted the kids to figure out how to win the ball and get out of pressure using their skills. The Spanish coach wanted them to get out of trouble via quick passing.

So, two coaches with differently cultural backgrounds, coaching the game to played in two different styles. Both may be correct and successful in their own right.

In my mind the IFA have failed on identifying the Irish soccer style, and failed to train coaches all over the country to coach that style. Until they do so, GAA and Rugby will influence the mentality of soccer youth players

Did I see somewhere that Conor McCann got a bad injury? Could be mistaken but just saw a photo floating round twitter with something on it...

Great achievement for creggan. Be interesting to see what they do in the AI. Coleraine won junior too so the Ballela fairytale unfortunately didn't happen. I think Coleraine have a few derry county boys and a lot of those footballers would have been underage derry players so probably nto really a surprise.

Great to see cushendall win. They seem to be very good in the close games. Not sure they currently have the players for an AI challenge but hopefully I'm wrong. They play Galway champions I think. I don't recall cushendall playing connacht champions over the years. Always seemed to be munster or leinster.

I believe it was his cousin Oran who got injured in a collision with Conor.

Really proud of the club, we've come a long way from the early 90's when the hurling started up.

One thing that I am most proud of is the football / hurling dual club issues that that I hear happens in other clubs have had has never really been an issue with Creggan. It was always drummed into us that the Creggan club was the be all and end all, not hurling or football. So we wanted to be successful in both codes, even if all there was to win in hurling was friendlies at the start

So if you consider 90's, the football club was starting to get organized for a push up the ranks (winning Div 2 in 94 and intermediate in 97ish, 2000ish ), but the senior management at the time always accommodated players playing hurling, (initially in a series of friendlies across Ulster, subsequently in the N Antrim junior league and then in Div 4 Antrim). So there has always been a spirit of co-operation.

Now in saying that, I would love to see the club push on a lift a senior football title in the next year or two!!!!!

Looks to be a lot of Dunloy guys on that St Louis team skull? Them and a Loughgiel McNaughton  which you don't see too often.

I wondered has st louis won it before but seems they won it in the late 80s.

St Marys have a large pick though so might be a tough enough ask but would be nice to see a win going outside st marys, maghera or cross and passion for a change.

Is that Ciaran Kearney of Stormont fame in the middle back row

Theres Ryan Elliott, Conor Kinsela, Keelan Molly, Conal Cunning, Ciaran Elliott, Seaan Elliott from Dunloy on the team. Also Ryan McGarry who hurls for Dunloy but is a ballymena man


88 was the last time they won it

Point of Note
Antrim are the weakest at county level, but not at club, and we shouldn't mix the two up

It has been a long time since our club teams take a hammering like the Fermanagh champs did last week

St Gall's represented Antrim well, so did Cargin before them.
Last time St John's were in it, they took out Arboe
When St Paul's were in it, they more than held their own.

Antrim have good footballers, just not enough good footballers totally committed to the county

Antrim Post front page all about a huge Antrim & Newtownabbey Borough Council new pitch development at Moneyglass GAC. Talk of £3 million expenditure. Great news if true. Anyone from MG confirm. (HOOF where are you).

We (Casements) just beginning the ground works for our own second pitch development - should finish up similar to Ahoghill when finished.

Glenravel, Dunloy, Creggan, All Saints all got their grounds recently refurbished. There's going to be some great grounds in the SW in the next few years.

Bannside the Moneyglass Project is a Vision for the future which hopes to be completed in phases but eventuallt the intention would be to have superb facilities that match or surpass what is currently around the county.

Alot of people working very hard to obtain it a Dream we are determined to make a reality

God, how come sooooooo many of our clubs are able to develop such good facilities, yet the Dunsily project is in limbo???

BTW that's both City and Country (St John's indoor facility, Sarsfields, St Brigit's, to name a few in the city)

If the county was smart, they should have partnered up with a club in a central location (Creggan, Cargin, Moneyglass etc for football and Tir na nOg, Ballymena, etc for hurling, or developed regional centers of excellence one SW, Belfast and NA), and use the combination for the county teams. Working in conjunction with the clubs, the development would have been completed

Think we led the way in development BS, and possibly one reason why were have current standing with training facilities up there with the best.

Well its finally paid off CB 😉.... We've the worst facilities in Antrim for a dual senior club... Hasn't really hurt us or stopped us attracting kids

In fairness CB, I wouldn't put Cargin's long term success down to the facilities, you have always had consistent and committed quality coaches, which as an outsider, would rate quite highly

The really interesting thing about the "JB" factor, is that most of the teams that he won a championship with, could be considered breakout or step up wins, i.e. no recent winning championship form, and he got them over the line

I thought he was also part of the Moortown management when they last won as well

Can anybody confirm or deny

[Any money that these "fat cats" make for the GAA, gets redistributed down thru the clubs, capital grants etc etc. It's not like Padraig Duffy and Aodhan O'Fearail are heading off to the South of France in a private jet, for a knees up in Monte Carlo, all funded by broadcast rights dosh.]

Any money that these "fat cats" make for the GAA, gets redistributed down thru the clubs, capital grants etc etc. It's not like Padraig Duffy and Aodhan O'Fearail are heading off to the South of France in a private jet, for a knees up in Monte Carlo, all funded by broadcast rights dosh.

I have mixed feelings about the SKY deal, but surely its better for the GAA to be getting the profits for broadcasting their own games, than the likes of Setanta or Channel 7? I lived in the US for nearly 20 years. I had to drive 20 miles to the nearest Fado Irish bar to watch matches & cough up $20 for the privilege when I got there. GAAGO would have been brilliant for me, if was around then

In case it wasn't clear, that's what I was getting at.

Same story for me, except the bar stopped showing the games. Why? because the bar paid setanta 200k for the rights to show the games, for setanta to turn up and take a "gate" at the door!!!!!

The Gaa should give SKY / Fox sports the full international rights.... then watch the sport grow