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Pauw says she was harassed by player’s father
Mary Hannigan
The absence of Tyler Toland from the Republic of Ireland football squad for the last 18 months has been a source of some puzzlement for followers of the national team, but manager Vera Pauw has thrown some light on what has become a fractious relationship with the 19-year-old.Pauw alleged she had been subjected to “harassment and intimidation” by Toland’s father Maurice after she dropped the Donegal teenager from her squad, an allegation he strongly denies.
“The only time I ever spoke to Vera was about 18 months ago, by phone for around 30 minutes, it was a hard conversation, but to suggest that it was ‘harassment and intimidation’ is just ridiculous. It was nothing of the sort. All I care about is Tyler, and I felt like she’d been treated extremely unfairly, so that’s what the conversation was about. As a father, I have a right to stand up for my daughter, her welfare is my only concern. These allegations are a joke.”
When asked if Toland, who became the Republic’s youngest ever senior international back in 2017, just 43 days after her 16th birthday, was still part of her plans, Pauw suggested she would not be considered until she phoned to apologise.
Offend
When asked to specify what Toland had done to offend her, Pauw didn’t specify, other than to imply the player was simply aggrieved about being left out of the team.
“I said before that Tyler Toland had to call me, and that was not for nothing. I have seen the articles in the paper, I have seen Twitter. But when a dad harasses me and a dad is intimidating me for 50 minutes – I had to hold my assistant back – and the player says she will never, ever play for you any more as long as you are coach, and the reason was that she was not in the line-up . . . I want to make that clear for once because there is a lot going on.”
“Young players make mistakes, but she needs to realise she has made one and not try to put it on my plate. I could have made a case of it, but I’ve not done that to protect her, but she is now going to the papers as if I don’t select her. She needs to call me, (to say) that she wants to play for me again . . . She decided that I did not like her, and so together with her father she decided she would not play for me.”
Pauw dismissed the suggestion that the onus should be on her, as coach, to contact the young player, who is currently on loan at Glasgow City from Manchester City.
“Not when harassment and intimidation is involved. Because I have my rights too, and this has done a lot to me … It’s the first time in my life I do not protect a player, but stand up for myself. Harassment and intimidation is not part of our game – and I need to be protected here.
“She sent me a standard text message after I had a few talks with her agent. We agreed three times that she had to call me to explain her behaviour, and three times she said yes. Would you text somebody if this is the background? Maybe a bit of guts would help her. I’m not the one breaking her career, I only want to save the career of Tyler Toland. But I’m also a human being.”
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Maurice sounds like a cunt
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You’d suspect so.
He took on the wrong woman there.
The people over Camogie and LGFA need shooting
FAI officials right about now
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Flynn timed his departure nicely.
I know people might see this as a tad misogynistic but the GAA could well be inviting a lot of grief for itself if the camogie association and LGFA is brought under its wing
The players are looking for parity on everything the men are getting
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Let them try and get along with each other first
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What exactly are men getting?
I’d imagine anything the men get is down to the individual county boards?
Of course they are. But it still needs doing.
Do they want parity with the Limerick Hurlers or the Limerick Footballers I wonder
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The Dublin wimin have sponsored cars and everything.
They need them to deliver the lunches to the mens team
And ironing
The sooner the better.
Partially because camogie officialdom makes me despair and partially because the club I’m involved with now is one of the last bastions of dinosaur GAA men who seem to think girls are aliens.
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I thought the camogs and lgfa had refused to go into the gaa?