I’d love to know who that last guy/county was. That’s just fucking stupid.
[quote=“caoimhaoin, post: 893445, member: 273”]http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/most-people-would-prefer-an-operation-than-four-months-in-rehab-256625.html
I’d love to know who that last guy/county was. That’s just fucking stupid.[/quote]
I was thinking that. Unbelievable that that could happen at county level. This article is good too
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/professionalism-in-an-amateur-context-is-a-broken-model-256630.html
[quote=“glasagusban, post: 893473, member: 1533”]I was thinking that. Unbelievable that that could happen at county level. This article is good too
http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/professionalism-in-an-amateur-context-is-a-broken-model-256630.html[/quote]
Conor McCarthy is a superb writer.
As mentioned on the Wexford GAA thread, it’s been announced that Wexford U21 hurling manager JJ Doyle is taking up a full time role with the Wexford County Board. He was just talking about it on South East Radio and, while he said the exact title of the role and the scope hasn’t entirely been defined, it seems to be along the lines of what I mentioned in the quoted post above.
He’s staying on as U21 manager but will have overall developmental responsibility from U15 up to that grade. He said it will incorporate co-ordinating the work of development squads, agreeing training plans across squads/grades, implementing an overall system/style of play that will flow up from one grade to the next, overseeing strength/conditioning programmes. He said they’ll be closely monitoring potential for burn-out and just generally trying to fine-tune and bring on the best possible players and characters for the senior team.
I’m not sure what, if any, sports science qualifications JJ Doyle possesses but he comes across as a very thoughtful and articulate chap. Seems like the type who’d embrace that role, throw himself into it and look to develop his own expertise while going about it. He’s a very good record with the Wexford teams he’s been in charge of. I’m very positive about this move and Wexford now seem to be doing plenty of things right. 
[QUOTE=“Bartosz Bereszynskiego, post: 1016892, member: 9”]As mentioned on the Wexford GAA thread, it’s been announced that Wexford U21 hurling manager JJ Doyle is taking up a full time role with the Wexford County Board. He was just talking about it on South East Radio and, while he said the exact title of the role and the scope hasn’t entirely been defined, it seems to be along the lines of what I mentioned in the quoted post above.
He’s staying on as U21 manager but will have overall developmental responsibility from U15 up to that grade. He said it will incorporate co-ordinating the work of development squads, agreeing training plans across squads/grades, implementing an overall system/style of play that will flow up from one grade to the next, overseeing strength/conditioning programmes. He said they’ll be closely monitoring potential for burn-out and just generally trying to fine-tune and bring on the best possible players and characters for the senior team.
I’m not sure what, if any, sports science qualifications JJ Doyle possesses but he comes across as a very thoughtful and articulate chap. Seems like the type who’d embrace that role, throw himself into it and look to develop his own expertise while going about it. He’s a very good record with the Wexford teams he’s been in charge of. I’m very positive about this move and Wexford now seem to be doing plenty of things right. [/QUOTE]
hopefully he can get the support and backing to make this work. a lot of what you mention above has been in place, or was put in place/ignored already so hopefully this kind of appointment might make some difference and make it actually work.
Good to see. People with a mix of coaching, s&c and inter county experience are the perfect people to be in these roles. The problem is its usually only one of these criteria is met, the latter.
Was there previously one person with overall control in this “CEO” type role that Doyle seems to be going into? Was it Dave Guiney before he left that Director of Coaching role a while back? It needs someone who’s clued in enough to take a long-term strategic view but who’ll command the respect of people working within the different teams.
Before everything else it takes someone who is completely insane and ridiculously driven.
JJ was once a priest or trained to be a priest so those 2 boxes are ticked
bit complicated.
Guiney was the games development administrator for Wexford, so in essence had the overall control of coaching issues etc. There was another overall games committee he was on, and as part of that there was a sub committee specifically to do with the development squads. The hurling advisory thing that Griffin is leading was in this overall games group, and they were all interlinked and to combine and work together. There is a new GDA being appointed (has been, not sure if it is public yet?) so he will assume Guineys previous role and be working more with the paid coaching staff.
so Doyles role sounds like it is a mixture of a couple of the above, in that he is within the Development squad committee, but part of the overall hurling advisory. What he is trying to do was being brought to the table, but not being implemented. As I say, hopefully with a public announcement of this, and with maybe more respect for him than previous others, he will be successful with this. lot of changes are needed IMO, this is one of many that needs to happen.
strangest funny rating I have ever been given. I work hard to get funny ratings, so to get one when not trying is great @cluaindiuic . still not sure what the funny bit is though? o_O
How convoluted the system is. Committees and sub committees and CEOs and Directors.
Your “bit complicated” is an enormous understatement.
Maybe we need an “informatively hilarious” rating.
[QUOTE=“cluaindiuic, post: 1017095, member: 258”]How convoluted the system is. Committees and sub committees and CEOs and Directors.
Your “bit complicated” is an enormous understatement.
Maybe we need an “informatively hilarious” rating.[/QUOTE]
ah, I see. its a bit complicated, but should work, if it were ran properly. Therein lies the problem. thing is, in most set ups, every sub sector from schools, development squads, underage etc work independant of each other, so the idea of that set up was to ensure it all worked under the one umbrella so that there was clear input to all sectors taking in all sectors.
maybe an unintentionally funny rating?