Clunge.
In fairness there’s only about a three week window around Christmas when lads can go out and have a normal enough life, going out getting pissed, heading to the local niteclub. It’s actually noticeable when you see county lads out because it’s so rare. Especially if their club has a long run or they are preparing for the Fitzgibbon/Sigerson etc.
The demands have gone insane. Not just for the bigger more successful teams but right across the board.
If Colm Galvin decides to go off and enjoy himself in the states for a summer like most normal young lads I’ll nominate him for alright sort of the year. GAA is fantastic but it’s only a game at the end of the day.
[QUOTE=“dodgy-keeper, post: 1110745, member: 1552”]In fairness there’s only about a three week window around Christmas when lads can go out and have a normal enough life, going out getting pissed, heading to the local niteclub. It’s actually noticeable when you see county lads out because it’s so rare. Especially if their club has a long run or they are preparing for the Fitzgibbon/Sigerson etc.
The demands have gone insane. Not just for the bigger more successful teams but right across the board.
If Colm Galvin decides to go off and enjoy himself in the states for a summer like most normal young lads I’ll nominate him for alright sort of the year. GAA is fantastic but it’s only a game at the end of the day.[/QUOTE]
I couldn’t agree more
2009 called mate, it’s over.
You made a balls of that.
Why are Clare playing Galvin when he’s gone for Championship?
Excellent from McGrath there, nicely finished by SOD.
Hard to see us hurling past July this year. Balance of the team is still wrong and our hurling and tackling is simply not good enough at present.
Can’t see it being rectified under this management team. Serious need for a fresh voice and fresh thinking. While today was a close contest it was quite flat for long periods.
[QUOTE=“The Big Cheese, post: 1111016, member: 1137”]Hard to see us hurling past July this year. Balance of the team is still wrong and our hurling and tackling is simply not good enough at present.
Can’t see it being rectified under this management team. Serious need for a fresh voice and fresh thinking. While today was a close contest it was quite flat for long periods.[/QUOTE]
And KK were not overly pushed and also very under strength.
It’s Tipp to lose.
I think Galway could win Leinster and AI
[QUOTE=“dodgy-keeper, post: 1110745, member: 1552”]In fairness there’s only about a three week window around Christmas when lads can go out and have a normal enough life, going out getting pissed, heading to the local niteclub. It’s actually noticeable when you see county lads out because it’s so rare. Especially if their club has a long run or they are preparing for the Fitzgibbon/Sigerson etc.
The demands have gone insane. Not just for the bigger more successful teams but right across the board.
If Colm Galvin decides to go off and enjoy himself in the states for a summer like most normal young lads I’ll nominate him for alright sort of the year. GAA is fantastic but it’s only a game at the end of the day.[/QUOTE]
You bitter bollix
You’re forgetting the reward vs commitment.
Just because you went at it half arsed and failed to make the squad on match day doesn’t mean the rest of the squad made the sacrifices in earnest.
If Clare do win next weekend, it would be interesting if the GAA decide to increase the number of teams in 1A to 8
[QUOTE=“ProjectX, post: 1111075, member: 1742”]If Clare do win next weekend, it would be interesting if the GAA decide to increase the number of teams in 1A to 8
:D[/QUOTE]
Only Cork try to change the rules to suit themselves.
They’re hoping to keep him obviously. Davy said today they planned to have a talk about it after the league. They’re well fucked without him.
[QUOTE=“The Big Cheese, post: 1111016, member: 1137”]Hard to see us hurling past July this year. Balance of the team is still wrong and our hurling and tackling is simply not good enough at present.
Can’t see it being rectified under this management team. Serious need for a fresh voice and fresh thinking. While today was a close contest it was quite flat for long periods.[/QUOTE]
They had spare hand tackling down to a fine art in 2013. Seem lost without it.
[QUOTE=“dodgy-keeper, post: 1110745, member: 1552”]In fairness there’s only about a three week window around Christmas when lads can go out and have a normal enough life, going out getting pissed, heading to the local niteclub. It’s actually noticeable when you see county lads out because it’s so rare. Especially if their club has a long run or they are preparing for the Fitzgibbon/Sigerson etc.
The demands have gone insane. Not just for the bigger more successful teams but right across the board.
If Colm Galvin decides to go off and enjoy himself in the states for a summer like most normal young lads I’ll nominate him for alright sort of the year. GAA is fantastic but it’s only a game at the end of the day.[/QUOTE]
that slightly weird Tony Griffin also touched on something similar in his book " screaming at the sky"
now his idea of a good time was hiding away on his own in a cottage by a lake but eventually he decided that life was improtant also and he packed it in, there seems to be something rotten in Clare tho, ok, the success is there, the data shows it, but they sound like a horrible, nasty shower
Davey will prob now do a Benyamin Netanyahu on it and try and use this to his advanatage and play the siege mentality card, that lickspittle and lead free winning in own 45 fistpumper Brendan Bugler was already tweeting the unity and with us or against us shit last week … a fuck it , in the long run its pathetic, its only a game as you say after all
Woolie has come across a Code of Conduct form an “unnamed county”. There is some fucking ridiculous shit in this. Piece can be heard here
http://www.newstalk.com/Ronaldo-wouldnt-make-a-GAA-team-because-he-wears-earrings
[SIZE=6]How can GPA stay silent when its players are humiliated?[/SIZE]
[SIZE=5]There’s something wrong with a union that stands idly by while members’ lives are being controlled[/SIZE]
[SIZE=4]Colm Parkinson[/SIZE]
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Davy O’Halloran said he was ‘humiliated’ by his treatment by the Clare senior hurling management
It’s about time the GPA rebranded themselves. How about this: the GAA’s Past And Present Player Welfare Department (GAAPPPWD)? It’s lengthy but more accurate.
When the GPA began they were a rebel force that fought for their members. Players bought into it and joined en masse. Finally we had a union that had the players’ backs against lazy county boards and an uninterested Croke Park.
The reason the GPA needs to rebrand is because they are not the players’ union any longer. What players’ union would remain silent after one of their members admitted to feeling ‘humiliated’ as a result of excessive punishments handed down by a county manager?
Take it from someone who has been in his position: Davy O’Halloran would appreciate some public support from his union.
The biggest problem facing the modern-day player is the excessive demands on their time. Codes of conduct are now in vogue within county panels. Not only do county managers want to control their training lives, they want to control their private lives too.
Could our players’ union do something about this? Would the English PFA stand by while their members signed codes of conduct they were not privy to?
I received information on one county’s ‘code of conduct’ and here is a flavour of what’s in it:
l An alcohol ban is implemented on January 1. A mid-season drink is permitted when the manager and three or four senior players (two of whom are pioneers) allow it.
l There should be no mention of the team, or the GAA, on social media as it is a distraction. (One senior player tweeted a picture of himself recovering from an operation in hospital and was suspended).
l No interaction with the media allowed.
l Football boots must be predominantly black in colour. There is a designated senior player who decides whether your boots are acceptable or not.
l No ankle socks can be worn outside your county socks and no tape to be worn on your sleeves or socks.
l No highlights in your hair. (One senior player arrived to training with a hairband and that was added to the banned list).
Why is the players’ ‘union’ standing by and allowing players lives to be controlled like this?
Why are players still paying €50 membership to a ‘union’ that is being funded by Croke Park and really just a department of the GAA? You can consider my membership to the GAAPPPWD officially cancelled.
The part of the code of conduct mentioning the player who tweeted an image of himself in hospital getting a ban gives a strong him to who this county is.
Would this be typical of every county senior team or just the ones run by obsessive paranoid nutjobs?
In Tipp the drinking ban is Tuesday to Friday.