Antrim Hurling

[El Plato]

Heard the county minor manager ripped through the team after game last weekend.  Heard by parents picking kids up!
How the Down team shouldn be on same pitch, lazy bunch of so and sos, not fit to wear the antrim jersey.

Who do the minors play next?

"Mol an oige agus tiocfaidh si"  Praise the young and they will flourish/thrive - He's really setting a good example to young lads, he should not be anywhere near them if you ask me   I am seriously thinking of writing a letter of complaint, but sure who would act on it, the Casement Mafia?   I hear some parents/clubs are threatening to withdraw their young lads from the squad?

Yeah, cause that would show the kids a good example as well 

Whats the issue here, players played crap manager lands a few home truths, this is what is wrong with this generation and their pandering parents.

Cant/ Wont take any sort of criticism and always look for the easy way out, pull out of the panel and bitch about the manager.

What would be wrong with a parent for once saying to their young lad, yes you were poor and yes your manager was right to give you a rocket. So for the next game you go and prove that you are good enough and that you deserve to play IC Minor hurling. Too little responsibility is being taken on board by players at all levels.

Correct. Shows how mentally tough they are that they respond to adversary by having  wee cry and telling on the bad man rather than show some kahunas and appetite to come back stronger.

You would do well not to be making reference to 'Kahunas' here lad (Kahunas is BIG Balls, this is a Wee Balls site), don't appear to exist on this fora.  I was only stating what I was told, that 'some parents' were non too pleased with the Managers tyrannical outburst.  Don't shoot me, I am just a little 'Duck! 

[Last Man]

Heard the county minor manager ripped through the team after game last weekend.  Heard by parents picking kids up!
How the Down team shouldn be on same pitch, lazy bunch of so and sos, not fit to wear the antrim jersey.

Who do the minors play next?

"Mol an oige agus tiocfaidh si"  Praise the young and they will flourish/thrive - He's really setting a good example to young lads, he should not be anywhere near them if you ask me   I am seriously thinking of writing a letter of complaint, but sure who would act on it, the Casement Mafia?   I hear some parents/clubs are threatening to withdraw their young lads from the squad?

Yeah, cause that would show the kids a good example as well 

Whats the issue here, players played crap manager lands a few home truths, this is what is wrong with this generation and their pandering parents.

Cant/ Wont take any sort of criticism and always look for the easy way out, pull out of the panel and bitch about the manager.

What would be wrong with a parent for once saying to their young lad, yes you were poor and yes your manager was right to give you a rocket. So for the next game you go and prove that you are good enough and that you deserve to play IC Minor hurling. Too little responsibility is being taken on board by players at all levels.

Correct. Shows how mentally tough they are that they respond to adversary by having  wee cry and telling on the bad man rather than show some kahunas and appetite to come back stronger.

Its a big problem with all but a few U16/minors playing in and for Antrim atm. As a coach it would drive you nuts but at the end of the day ganchin only makes you feel better and the players just forget about it when they walk out the door.  They just cant live with any level of pain or the potential of getting a slap and hurling away regardless. All in the mind stuff.  Parents thinking of taking their kids away might be better served asking themselves why their sons are so ill equipped
to handle themselves.

[north_antrim_hound]

Heard the county minor manager ripped through the team after game last weekend.  Heard by parents picking kids up!
How the Down team shouldn be on same pitch, lazy bunch of so and sos, not fit to wear the antrim jersey.

Who do the minors play next?

"Mol an oige agus tiocfaidh si"  Praise the young and they will flourish/thrive - He's really setting a good example to young lads, he should not be anywhere near them if you ask me   I am seriously thinking of writing a letter of complaint, but sure who would act on it, the Casement Mafia?   I hear some parents/clubs are threatening to withdraw their young lads from the squad?

Yeah, cause that would show the kids a good example as well 

Whats the issue here, players played crap manager lands a few home truths, this is what is wrong with this generation and their pandering parents.

Cant/ Wont take any sort of criticism and always look for the easy way out, pull out of the panel and bitch about the manager.

What would be wrong with a parent for once saying to their young lad, yes you were poor and yes your manager was right to give you a rocket. So for the next game you go and prove that you are good enough and that you deserve to play IC Minor hurling. Too little responsibility is being taken on board by players at all levels.

Correct. Shows how mentally tough they are that they respond to adversary by having  wee cry and telling on the bad man rather than show some kahunas and appetite to come back stronger.

we cant judge if we didnt hear what was said. if he was getting personal with some players etc thats not on. but if they are getting a collective bo*licking for an under par performance then take it on the chin and no whinging. anybody that ever hurled has heard this stuff and going crying to the parents is over the top.

[NAG1]

There is a fine line between what you can and can't say to kids but I'm taking this outlook....

we cant judge if we didnt hear what was said.

IMO I would have thought it would be safe to assume that he wouldnt be insulting the lads parentage or getting into personal insults. Yeah I would say it was probably colourful and close to the bone at times. As most on here would know am not a massive fan of the manager in question but I would defend him on this one and condemn the pettiness of either the lads or parents involved in putting this story around.

[DearyMe]

Who is the county minor manager?

[NAG1]

Yeah totally agree HS

Just my opinion that this would be the type of lad/ parent that would buckle under pressure anyway so maybe no big loss.

[Last Man]

Yeah totally agree HS

Just my opinion that this would be the type of lad/ parent that would buckle under pressure anyway so maybe no big loss.

+1

[NAG1]

Yeah totally agree HS

Just my opinion that this would be the type of lad/ parent that would buckle under pressure anyway so maybe no big loss.

Fcuk I don't know if you can say that, Nag. I wouldn't like you to be the go to man on child protection issues if that's your attitude....

HS, wasnt referring to any kind of child abuse thats on a different level. My point simply was that if a lad/ parent cant take a good old fashioned managerial rant (i.e. as I said above one without personal insulting) then to me that shows a lack of strength of character and in my experience these are the personality types that crumble when it comes to the crunch anyway.

I know we are talking in the hypothetical here but I had prefaced that by saying that I didnt think the man in question would have gone down that route. If I am proved to be wrong on that one would happily hold my hands up and say yeah he crossed the line and any parent would / should withdraw their lad in that case.

[Last Man]

Yeah totally agree HS

Just my opinion that this would be the type of lad/ parent that would buckle under pressure anyway so maybe no big loss.

Fcuk I don't know if you can say that, Nag. I wouldn't like you to be the go to man on child protection issues if that's your attitude....

You wouldn't have it in the policy document but not many would see you "burned at the stake" for quietly holding this opinion.

[johnneycool]

Got a beating from Ballycastle at the weekend past. They look to have got themselves organised a lot better than they have been in recent years, although their trainer (Cassidy I think) would do better than running on the field every farts end.

They started with the aid of a stiff breeze and we were going reasonably well, point for point for long enough then a few moments of madness let them in for a soft goal, followed by another dropping off Grahams hand into the net, as well as a well taken goal by their corner forward. That give them a seven point lead at half time.

They were then able to pack their defence and we never made any inroads into that lead as we don't have any aerial ball winners at all in our forwards. McAuley and Pinkie were catching all that came their way with ease and putting good ball into their forwards.

We may rue those home points as we'll not pick many up away from home.

[Milltown Row2]

Yeah totally agree HS

Just my opinion that this would be the type of lad/ parent that would buckle under pressure anyway so maybe no big loss.

Fcuk I don't know if you can say that, Nag. I wouldn't like you to be the go to man on child protection issues if that's your attitude....

You wouldn't have it in the policy document but not many would see you "burned at the stake" for quietly holding this opinion.

You're talking about 17 year old lads. not f**king babies!! Most of these 'kids' are working or heading to college in September. probably mouthy wee shites also to boot.

Providing he pubically didn't run down someone on their own and the bollocking was a collective then this is a non story. It's this sort of thing that stops people getting involved with taking teams.

[manballandall]

Is that what stops St Galls from getting a HURLING manager MR ?
Any developments with that yet ?
Still not training ? lol

[Milltown Row2]

Is that what stops St Galls from getting a HURLING manager MR ?
Any developments with that yet ?
Still not training ? lol

Our treasure won't release funds for hurling balls so we can't train, until then we'll just play football, plenty of those things lying around

[manballandall]

Having difficulties with the club committee isnt a good start for any manager but not having access to balls is a major issue for any manager....surely its not bad .
Is this another cry wolf situation like your no training scenarion which was totally blown out of the water last wednesday against the premier club. ?

[Milltown Row2]

probably mouthy wee shites also to boot.

Any other assumptions we want to make about them?

FFS!

Yeah, probably glue sniffers and sheep shaggers FFS

Oops that was just the minor team i was on. Ed McCoy was playing lol