Iâm with the players. Canât understand the demonising they get in the media for standing up to a manager who has lost the dressing room. What is it fucking serfdom or something? Are players supposed to comply without question with every direction they receive from some character they believe to be a gobdaw just because an even bigger crowd of gobdaws in the county board have said it should be so.
If thatâs the way it is then the Irish truly are a servile race. Look at the haunting the Waterford hurlers got for having the gumption to take a stand against that mickeyman Scully Ryan. A league title and an All Ireland semi final later the cunts who pilloried them have gone scurrying back down their rat holes.
Like it or hate it, inter county players make the GAA. Not some cunt in a county board or some chap with a clipboard making a name for himself.
Plenty of people in Galway share the view of the Galway hurlers that I outlined above, pal.
I greatly enjoyed you moaning about non-Galway people having an opinion on whatâs happening in Galway while having a good moan about Dublinâs success, by the way, so thanks for that and I hope to hear more from where that came from.
I hit a nerve marking you as servile. What galway hurling people, the few on the go bus you bore to tears? Dublin earned their success the hard way alright.
So the solution to overcome these failings is to go back with the same manager and do the exact same thing thats failed over the past four years. And youd swear they were just handibg all irelands away. They threw the chance at one away in 2013 no doubt, that was a real failing, and the management teams fault as much as the players. Kilkenny were the better team overall the other years, but a team cant beat a better team and theyve failed in your eyes. They try and change things so they might have a better chance of beating them, more failure as far as you can see.
on the other hand in every one of these cases it is possible to see a manager who has deluded himself into believing that he is best placed to deliver an All Ireland. In this case against the available evidence.
By listening to you youâd swear they were just handing All-Irelands away.
This should be obvious but the solution is to critically self-analyse where you went wrong and try and improve on it for the next year, not to throw the toys out of the pram like babies and look to put the blame on anybody but yourself, and thatâs what the Galway team have done.
We have Big Dan who is there to ensure that the lads from the West of the county get a fair crack. The evidence suggests that he is performing well in this role.
He seems to play an active role beyond being a selector. Seems very involved during matches as a motivator etc.
Canât think of professional sports where they have selectors as a distinct role though. Seems archaic to be there unless you are also coaching in some guise.