Amazing agents mcintyre and o shea decided to live here. I suppose life prospects for educated men is, lets say, not to promising in irelands most miserable planter county
Heâs required to write his personal opinion on how his successor in the galway job is doing? Would you ever fuck off.
He writes a column you utter fuckstick, like Tom Ryan, Nicky English, Gerlock, Anthony Daly, Tony Considine etc etc. He left the Galway job 4 seasons ago, Galway hurling is in the shit and he is not supposed to write about it in a local paper? You gimp.
We died with our boots onâŚ
In my hearts of hearts, I knew the game was up for John McIntyre and this management team when we fell so disappointingly to Waterford in Thurles.
Most of the above donât do what McIntyre does and no one gives a shit about Tom Ryan. McIntyre hasnât stopped having a go since he left the job, which he made a fuck of. He could easily leave those pieces to other journalists in the paper. He just comes across as an extremely bitter and hypocritical prick, which he is.
Galway should have way more won and are brill but why canât they win
So the editor of the sports section should leave the editorials to other journalists:rolleyes:
He has an axe to grind, and you know it.
Throw up a few links to where he grinds this axe.
He isnât required to write criticisms of the hurling management, no. He could rise above it and leave that to the journalists. If he had any class.
Having said that, there is nothing at all unreasonable in that article.
I canât be bothered, but they are there. I deleted my original post, posted drunk last night, as it was mean and harsh and personal, but I found his time in charge of Galway to be the most depressing I can remember. I personally feel we went backwards quite a distance, but that is just my opinion. I also think that though AC has made a reasonable fist of it (nothing more really), we had a lucky draw and a weak field in 2012, and he seems to have run his course, but needs to be judged on the championship. Staying in 1a was not a mean feat.
I also think that macintyre should indeed avoid getting involved in writing about the management. His main job is editor, which doesnât necessarily involve writing articles. He could be more circumspect, especially as his points, however valid, may be undermined by perceived bias.
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[QUOTE=âflattythehurdler, post: 1118303, member: 1170â]I canât be bothered, but they are there. I deleted my original post, posted drunk last night, as it was mean and harsh and personal, but I found his time in charge of Galway to be the most depressing I can remember. I personally feel we went backwards quite a distance, but that is just my opinion. I also think that though AC has made a reasonable fist of it (nothing more really), we had a lucky draw and a weak field in 2012, and he seems to have run his course, but needs to be judged on the championship. Staying in 1a was not a mean feat.
I also think that macintyre should indeed avoid getting involved in writing about the management. His main job is editor, which doesnât necessarily involve writing articles. He could be more circumspect, especially as his points, however valid, may be undermined by perceived bias.[/QUOTE]
Did Galway not win a League title in 2010 and were pipped at the post by Tipp in the QF?
He resigned from the job in 2011, not sure why he would be perceived to be biased.
Stand open for correction on this, but he did good work in the likes of Clarinbridge?
The article is simply stating facts and doesnât strike me as being bitter.
You might as well say John Giles shouldnât be commenting on the Irish team because he managed them once.
[QUOTE=âMullach Ide, post: 1118306, member: 141â]Did Galway not win a League title in 2010 and were pipped at the post by Tipp in the QF?
He resigned from the job in 2011, not sure why he would be perceived to be biased.
Stand open for correction on this, but he did good work in the likes of Clarinbridge?
The article is simply stating facts and doesnât strike me as being bitter.
You might as well say John Giles shouldnât be commenting on the Irish team because he managed them once.[/QUOTE]
The article doesnât come across as unreasonable in any way, but I have read stuff from him in the past which did. In my opinion, the team he inherited was there or thereabouts in standard and not as far back as they were when he left. The tipp game was heartbreaking, particularly as, they were unlucky, but I do think that Eugene macentee could have shored things up in the late second half as we were getting overrun from midfield. In any case that was the high watermark. The capitulations ( not the losses, but the manner of them) were soul destroying.
He had a team with some âworldâ class talent in its pomp, something AC hasnât really had.
I thought we were further back when he finished, which led to panicked attempts to catch up in the weights room.
McIntrye has a very strong club record in Galway
I also truly believe that all a manager can really do is try and make his team competitive, so the hat is in the ring, so to speak, and hope for a bit of luck. We were competitive by and large when he took over the reins (with a very strong CV). It seemed a decent appointment at the time. I donât think it worked. I disagreed with the tone of some of the articles published in thetribune about subsequent management.
He is probably ok to write articles on the club championship then?