Meeting of Grassroots to Discuss our Strategy re GPA

[Seany]

Dear All,


After yesterday's announcement about pay-for-play in the GAA, a group of concerned GAA people are coming together as follows:


Wednesday 5 December



7.00pm



The Elk



(between Castledawson and Toome on the main Belfast/Derry road)





The aim is to hold an open meeting to see what the grass-roots view is about this absolutely seismic shift in GAA policy.


If you're concerned about this whole issue, please come along.



And it would be useful if you could circulate the content of this email to like-minded people.

Time to do Something. Let's All GO!!!

[Armagh4SamAgain]

but its the same nite as the gathering at maddens

[bennydorano]

Can we call ourselves the Continuity GAA or the Real GAA or something catchy?

[Bensars]

on a regig of GPA.................GAP    Gaels Against Professionalism

[orangeman]

Can someone ring Pat Darcy, Tyrone County chairman who said yesterday that the government should have given the money to St. Vincent de Paul instead of the GPA - Fair play to you Pat.

[DMarsden]

Gaels Against Progress?

[pintsofguinness]

Gaels Against Progress?

What progress?

[DMarsden]

Government funded grants administered by the sports council, which will put a small hole in the expenses intercounty players incur over the course of a year is progress. anyone who opposes it on the basis that the big bad wolf is going come in the night is the modern day version of the catholic church of the 60s

Pay for Play?

Your going to have to substantiate that nonsense claim

[DMarsden]

typical. not a fact or quote anywhere to be seen.

The George bush neocons could do no better. WOE WOE WOE!!!

[Bensars]

On that note can you quote some of the examples you refer to, of the catholic church in the 1960s

[ziggysego]

Government funded grants administered by the sports council, which will put a small hole in the expenses intercounty players incur over the course of a year is progress. anyone who opposes it on the basis that the big bad wolf is going come in the night is the modern day version of the catholic church of the 60s

Pay for Play?

Your going to have to substantiate that nonsense claim

They getting paid for playing? Yes! So it's not coming from the GAA itself, but the fact is that the players are getting paid. You can dress it up by saying it's a grant. At the end of the day they are getting money to play and threatened to strike if they weren't.

The GAA is an amature sport now, but only in name.

[DMarsden]

No, they are getting a grant towards the expense of preparing to pay.

[DMarsden]

What expenses doplayers get from the GAA towards preparation?

It is the GAA who created the elite status.

[pintsofguinness]

Government funded grants administered by the sports council, which will put a small hole in the expenses intercounty players incur over the course of a year is progress. anyone who opposes it on the basis that the big bad wolf is going come in the night is the modern day version of the catholic church of the 60s

It's being administered by the GAA and what county players haven't their expenses covered? 

[DMarsden]

Its boring answering this question.

time away from work
time away from family
loss of time used up for the GAA which others use productively (how much an hour do you rate your time at?)
expense of dietry requirements
blah blah blah.

The usual riposte is don't do it but the next fleet of players will only be in a wet week when they look for the same. why turn down non GAA money to put a little towards the work that goes into what you see on the telly in july or august?