Or perhaps they see a group of players who are utterly deluded about the reasons for their own failings when it mattered on the pitch.
Theyâll get their way but as a result the delusion will remain. And Galway hurling will go back into its perpetual pattern of false dawns.
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.
how far are we away from a player manager in GAA - seems a natural evolution
The selector system is a joke - mostly there for the bus trips and a sop to clubs
Apart from somewhere like Kilkenny where the selectors are integral to the teams success
The evidence would firmly suggest that Cunningham was better placed to deliver an All-Ireland to Galway than anybody theyâll get in.
Not Cody?
How does he use his selectors - like scouts (genuine question).
Picking a team by committee seems mad. Once rugby went pro even it dispensed with that
Care to flesh this one out? What evidence is that?
He had four chances and they all ended in failure.
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.
Again, reading this, youâd swear All-Irelands were just handed out like those flags sponsors hand out before matches.
Why would you think that reading my comments? Itâs a fairly silly analogy Sidney. You can stop repeating it now.
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.
English cricket.
I havenât a clue. But youâd be led to believe they wouldnât have won a thing without Michael Dempsey.
And when the same man couldnât critically analyse it and improve over four years your solution is to give him another year. What then, another year after that? Despite your claims to know people and whatever time you spend in galway,( in the claddagh isnt it?) you havenât the first clue about that team or management set up and who does what and whos listened to. I see youve stopped repeating the harte broke the door down anecdote and are now convinced that what players should do is self assess and just magically improve. If they consider their manager a hindrance not a helpafter that assessment too bad, ignore that, just look at yourselves and IMPROVE. Are you on one of you famous sessions down the back of a bus or something you are seriously rambling away here.
I didnât make it the first place, mate, I just thought it was interesting that that analogy was levelled against those who think Cunningham has done a good job, when itâs quite obviously more appropriate to those who want rid of him.
I mean, youâd swear all Galway had to do was turn up to win an All-Ireland, rather than have to beat Kilkenny, like.
I donât think anyone really believes that Sidney. Sure if that was the case theyâd have managed it with Cunningham
Who would you Galwegians ideally like to see take over the side in order to give them a better crack at it in 2016?