Its slightly concerning. I’d be very afraid if I were a club who was an early adopter of the one club model.
I see with Doora Barefield in Clare it’s a mess now. Everyone wants priority over everyone and they all expect it.
Supposedly they’re taking the knee before the games this weekend.
You’re joking? Surely that’s just Cork?
They’ve had enough.
Jaysis
Who are they protesting against
The man.
They can go and fuck
Seems a bit odd they want another organisation to pay the costs of this for the LGFA and Camogie. Surely this should be for Sports Ireland to handle?
Nigerian camp in chaos amid dispute over payments
OSASU OBAYIUWANARandy Waldrum, the head coach of Ireland’s Group B rivals Nigeria, ought to be looking forward to leading the nine-time African champions – the most successful national team on the continent – to their World Cup opener against the Olympic champions Canada at Melbourne’s Rectangular Stadium on July 21st.
But the Nigerian camp is not a happy one at the moment.
The 66-year-old Waldrum, from Texas, is in open dispute with the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF).
“What keeps me going are the players. Otherwise, I would have quit this job long ago,” Waldrum said in an explosive interview with the On The Whistle podcast.
“Up until about three weeks ago, I had been owed about 14 months’ salary. And then they paid seven months’ salary. We still have players that haven’t been paid since two years ago. It’s a travesty.
“In the 2½ years that I have been here [in Nigeria], I have never had one time that the federation came to me and asked: ‘What do you need, coach?’ I’m not going to be quiet any more … in October, every country was given $960,000 from Fifa to prepare for the World Cup. Where is that money?”
Ademola Olajire, the NFF’s communications director, in a vitriolic response, called Waldrum a “blabbermouth” and the “worst Super Falcons coach in history”.
“Everyone knows Fifa pays preparation money for every team going to the Women’s World Cup. The team travelled to Japan to play matches, travelled to Mexico for a tournament and travelled to Turkey to play matches,” Olajire said. “The team is presently having a training camp in the Gold Coast ahead of the World Cup. Is it ‘Mr Blabbermouth’ Waldrum who has been paying? He claims he’s been at the job because of the players. B****cks. His entire objective has always been to add leading a team at the World Cup to his CV. [He is the] worst coach to have handled the Super Falcons of Nigeria, by a country mile.”
And as if this is not enough, the players are threatening to boycott World Cup matches should the NFF not adhere to an agreement to give the players 30 per cent of the tournament revenue it gets from Fifa, which the NFF says it will no longer pay, since Fifa is paying each World Cup player a minimum of $30,000 for participating in the group stages, up to a maximum of $270,000 per World Cup winner.
Amid this chaos, it is easy to forget that Nigeria have a collection of top-level players with the talent to compete against the world’s best.
A squad featuring the Paris FC goalkeeper Chiamaka Nnadozie, Atlético Madrid’s attacking midfielder Rasheedat Ajibade, forward Desire Oparanozie, who is with Wuhan in the Chinese Super League, as well as the irrepressible Asisat Oshoala, who recently won the Uefa Champions League with Barcelona, are certainly not cannon fodder.
But can they pull victory out of the jaws of disaster and rise above the organisational and administrative chaos that threatens to turn Africa’s most consistent World Cup performers into a spectacle for all the wrong reasons?
The group stages, in which they will also play hosts Australia and Vera Pauw’s Ireland, at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane on Monday, July 31st, will provide the answers soon enough. – Guardian
The Nigerians are always up to something in the lead up to world cups
Flynner is after walking himself into a shitshow
He’s a nawful fucking ape
The GPAs latest tweet 
Mansplaining how to use email will not be appreciated by the ladies
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Imagine doing business like that - Flynn is some plank
Then they pinned it just to be sure 