The RTE sports awards are on next weekend. Will there be any GAA winners. I hope Jim Gavin gets manager of the year. But given the way RTE sports are run- probably not.

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2519 - 10/12/2018 11:36:39    2153848

dubshurling7 (Dublin) - Posts: 1017 - 10/12/2018 12:37:01    2153861

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7346 - 10/12/2018 14:43:31    2153876

Dont see the need for potshot at RTE in OP(but given the OP its no surprise....)
Coach of the year should be Shaw

DonaldDuck (Tipperary) - Posts: 544 - 10/12/2018 15:03:25    2153880

Team of the year? Mullinalachta should get it without a shadow of doubt. Only in time will their achievement be recognised. A once in a lifetime scenario. Manager of the year between John Kiely and hockey coach Shaw.
But of course Ryle and his buddies in RTE will most likely ensure its a clean sweep for the egg chasers.

hamstring (Limerick) - Posts: 318 - 10/12/2018 19:28:11    2153918

Only insecure people will be having a potshot at rugby and using names, that vast majority of rugby people dont use for the sport, to have a go at the sport
Rugby people/teams could get many awards but the national team did have a near unbeaten year with several firsts and player/coach of the year were very good all year

DonaldDuck (Tipperary) - Posts: 544 - 10/12/2018 19:51:28    2153922

mullinaghta will not win team of the yea. the hockey team has that sewn up . they should win an award for their achievement but r t e wont recognise them . personality of the year should be joe schmidt

mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1802 - 10/12/2018 21:13:15    2153927

Joe smith has to be manager of the year, a grand slam and 3 wins out of 3 in the autumn , Ireland up to 2 nd in the world.

John kiely did a great job with limerick ending a 45 year drought as well.

Player of the year ! Again rugby with Jonathan Sexton.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 10/12/2018 21:20:35    2153929

Rugby teams/players tend to dominate these awards if they've had an anyway half decent year and seeing as, by all accounts, they've had a great year you'd have to expect them to dominate the awards this year.

GAA tends not to feature much for various reasons.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13709 - 10/12/2018 21:42:35    2153933

Autumn Internationals in rugby are no more than glorified challenge matches.
Come World Cup time these games will count for nothing.

hamstring (Limerick) - Posts: 318 - 10/12/2018 23:52:40    2153945

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 11/12/2018 09:35:50    2153954

Schmidt will get manager of the year. Sexton will get sportsperson of the year, and either Irish rugby team or the womens hockey team will get team of the year. Id be inclined to go with the hockey team. I can't see there being any GAA winners, unless its some lifetime achievement award or something like that.

On a sidenote to the sportsperson of the year, it is an absolute disgrace that jockey Rachael Blackmore wasn't even nominated. She is currently second in the Irish jump jockeys championship and has had a brilliant 2018, competing against the men. all of the other women nominated were only competing against women, but she has reached the top of her sport against the very best. Some of the women nominated were only token gestures, but they have left our a proper female sports star in Rachael blackmore

890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 11/12/2018 09:57:27    2153959

I'm all for the Women's Hockey team to be honest.

Given the backing that other teams and sports get, theirs really is a wonderful achievement.

Also be great for their profile and support for their sport holistically.

TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 11/12/2018 11:25:26    2153968

A lot of Irish people look down on the GAA when it comes to these awards because it doesn't have an international dimension. It's an Irish thing. Could you imagine the aussies being so dismissive of the AFL or the Americans of American football? Not in a million years.

Schmit bringing Ireland from being the 2nd/3rd team in Europe to 6 nations champions plus some good test wins wouldn't compare with McGuinness bringing Donegal from the 20th team in the country to AI champions in 2 years if they occurred in the same year in my eyes. It would be like winning the rugby world cup with Romania or Tonga. I doubt the powers that be would give the local achievement the same credit though.

I do think Schmidt deserves the award this year though. I felt there was more luck to the Hockey girls achievement. Them met teams ranked 10th and 11th in the quarters and semis and beat both on penalties. Still a hell of an achievement given we were ranked 16th but definitely the rub of the green in the draw.

tomhealycork (Cork) - Posts: 80 - 11/12/2018 12:00:16    2153973

Jim Gavin is going for 5 in a row next year, and so are the Dubs Gaelic football team. Surely that is a great achievement for amateur players. Regarding having a go at RTE and other sports, well I have watched and heard GAA being attacked non stop over the last 20 years, especially Gaelic football. Have you read what has been said about our great game in some of the sports media?

galwayford (Galway) - Posts: 2519 - 11/12/2018 12:32:13    2153978

Autumn Internationals in rugby are no more than glorified challenge matches.
Come World Cup time these games will count for nothing.

hamstring (Limerick) - Posts: 262 - 10/12/2018 23:52:40Why is it only non rugby supporters who dismiss the november games as friendlies?
Thats not what players, coaches, fans of the sport think of these games.

DonaldDuck (Tipperary) - Posts: 544 - 11/12/2018 13:15:44    2153985

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 11/12/2018 13:45:28    2153988

Surely there must be an 'award' of some kind for John Delaney although other minority sports will probably claim the major awards. Don' think it will worry Dublin footballers or Limerick hurlers too much.

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 11/12/2018 16:11:04    2153998

GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7346 - 11/12/2018 16:14:46    2153999

Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 11/12/2018 16:51:59    2154001