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I don't see why E Murray would be brought into COR's team. Murray himself says in interviews that his skills aren't in the technical and coaching side of things, so he leaves those jobs to others.
His talents are as a manager, overseeing the players and the background team, assigning the best person to the right task, and getting everyone moving in the right direction.

That's the main role of a manager, and that role will fall to O'Rourke. Bringing in Murray would be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth....

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1646 - 19/08/2022 14:34:17    2438038

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Replying To Blackspot09:  "No worries Brian. To be honest from seeing the posts you put up here regularly I was surprised by that one yesterday as it did seem a bit out of character so that makes more sense."
Cheers, i was just as shocked, and going how in the hell did i phantom post. And the style is nothing like mine as you rightly say. But looked Admins seem to have cleared it up., so hopefully I'll be back to normal form ;)

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 19/08/2022 15:03:37    2438043

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Replying To seadog54:  "In fairness to EM not a whole lot in what he said, he was bigging ladies sport in general and Meath ladies in particular. Doubt if many took offence, even in these times. No worse that Gerry Mac wanting to burn the hurls. Give the man a break, gave us many good days which were badly needed."
for our u17 winning an all ireland lads been called a snotty nosed gasson is not a nice remark and all that they achieved , totally inappropiate .

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 19/08/2022 17:08:09    2438058

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Replying To Blackspot09:  "No worries Brian. To be honest from seeing the posts you put up here regularly I was surprised by that one yesterday as it did seem a bit out of character so that makes more sense."
totally, 100% ...as regular here , i enjoy your post Brian, and while i don't always agree...i kinda thought that one was way outa left field for you

Thelongwoodslasher (Meath) - Posts: 385 - 19/08/2022 17:11:30    2438059

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Replying To Meathball:  "He (Eamon Murray) may have done some wonderful work to get Meath Ladies football back where it is and he should rightly be commended for what he has achieved, but I do think he undermined the opportunity of the Meath Minor girls of winning the Leinster Championship as three days before their Leinster Final he had the three best Minor Girls take part in 5 hour session (training & some analysis) with the Senior panel. It showed on the 2 girls who played outfield, they looked tired and ended up been replaced. These girls were only brought into the Senior panel to help with training and in house games. If there was cooperation between the Ladies Senior and Minor management, those three girls would have been excused from that long training session. In the absence of cooperation and in the interest of player welfare, there should be a rule in Inter County Ladies GAA, that no juvenile girl joins a Senior County panel until that County is out of the Inter County Minor Championship."
im hoping this one is also an Admin error ...as this is total BS

Thelongwoodslasher (Meath) - Posts: 385 - 19/08/2022 17:13:29    2438061

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Replying To brian:  "for our u17 winning an all ireland lads been called a snotty nosed gasson is not a nice remark and all that they achieved , totally inappropiate ."
Hmmmmmm. Is this Brian is it not Brian???

Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 870 - 19/08/2022 21:07:25    2438078

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I'm beginning to regret my innocent suggestion that Eamonn Murray might be a good choice of selector for the Meath senior mens football team…

Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1319 - 20/08/2022 11:10:31    2438089

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Three good interviews in this weeks Chronicle, ladies ex coach Paul Garrigan gives a good insight and talks about the journey from a team ranked 17th to double A/I champions. David Bradys take on the state of Meath football and COR address to the clubs ( poor turnout, hopefully down to time of year) All worth a read.

seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2150 - 20/08/2022 14:30:15    2438116

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Replying To Blackspot09:  "Hmmmmmm. Is this Brian is it not Brian???"
nope that's not me

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 22/08/2022 17:00:34    2438301

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Replying To brian:  "nope that's not me"
So now theres two Brian's, great.

Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 666 - 23/08/2022 08:34:39    2438326

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Replying To Royal.Legend:  "So now theres two Brian's, great."
They seem to have blocked whomever posted those couple of comments under my name. I think most people on here know my posting style and how i am so should be easy to pick out whats me and what's not.

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 23/08/2022 10:07:23    2438343

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So Donie Buckley is joining Kevin McStay in Mayo, so there goes that idea. Dunno who else is available to Colm at this stage and hopefully he had a back up plan if Buckley was going to Mayo, if Buckley was part of Colm's plans. I know Garrigan has left the ladies set up but would he be interested in working with the mens set up?

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 25/08/2022 10:00:46    2438624

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Replying To brian:  "So Donie Buckley is joining Kevin McStay in Mayo, so there goes that idea. Dunno who else is available to Colm at this stage and hopefully he had a back up plan if Buckley was going to Mayo, if Buckley was part of Colm's plans. I know Garrigan has left the ladies set up but would he be interested in working with the mens set up?"
COR clearly has nobody because if he did he'd have announced it by now. Didn't garrigan site the travel from wicklow as one of the reasons from stepping away from the ladies. If this was the case I assume it rules him out of getting involved with the men.

Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 870 - 25/08/2022 10:39:42    2438630

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Replying To Blackspot09:  "COR clearly has nobody because if he did he'd have announced it by now. Didn't garrigan site the travel from wicklow as one of the reasons from stepping away from the ladies. If this was the case I assume it rules him out of getting involved with the men."
Yeah, bit of an odd one alright blackspot, hopefully he does have something lined up and wasn't waiting on Buckley to move to someone else. Garrigan you're right about the travel from what i read but maybe the chance to get involved with the mens team might tempt him, but then again his family also needs to come first.

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 25/08/2022 11:15:40    2438642

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Replying To Blackspot09:  "COR clearly has nobody because if he did he'd have announced it by now. Didn't garrigan site the travel from wicklow as one of the reasons from stepping away from the ladies. If this was the case I assume it rules him out of getting involved with the men."
In recent address to clubs he said more names would be added to backroom team. Details been finalised and expected to be in position to put names before next CB meeting, hopefully all will be revealed soon. He did stress that there is a right way to conduct such matters, may explain the delay.

seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2150 - 25/08/2022 15:03:59    2438679

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Replying To seadog54:  "In recent address to clubs he said more names would be added to backroom team. Details been finalised and expected to be in position to put names before next CB meeting, hopefully all will be revealed soon. He did stress that there is a right way to conduct such matters, may explain the delay."
Would have expected that anyone going for the position would have had to have their backroom team sorted and agreed as surely this would be a factor when deciding who would get the job ???

Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 26/08/2022 19:25:24    2438774

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Replying To Analyst:  "Would have expected that anyone going for the position would have had to have their backroom team sorted and agreed as surely this would be a factor when deciding who would get the job ???"
To be honest his address to the clubs just sounded like waffle. The recruitment process is on going and there is a certain way these things are done. Reading between the lines he's saying he hasn't gotten anyone yet. Of course there is a correct way to do these things but the reality is if he has secured a coach or 2 coaches he'd have announced it by now.

My guess is the coaches he was talking to probably have him a maybe but were keeping their options open to see if there was any better offers that come along. Like going in with Mayo and McStay for example..

Reality is for us that the Meath coaching job is not an attractive job for any outside coach who is highly rated and who would be highly sought after.

Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 870 - 27/08/2022 10:00:04    2438790

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Replying To Blackspot09:  "To be honest his address to the clubs just sounded like waffle. The recruitment process is on going and there is a certain way these things are done. Reading between the lines he's saying he hasn't gotten anyone yet. Of course there is a correct way to do these things but the reality is if he has secured a coach or 2 coaches he'd have announced it by now.

My guess is the coaches he was talking to probably have him a maybe but were keeping their options open to see if there was any better offers that come along. Like going in with Mayo and McStay for example..

Reality is for us that the Meath coaching job is not an attractive job for any outside coach who is highly rated and who would be highly sought after."
Doubt COR took on the job based on what might happen and stake his reputation on the whims of others. I would have more faith in him than that. Whats the hurry naming rest of backroom team, the three in place are well capable of identifying talent, coaching s/c will come later. I,m sure there will be young coaches happy to work with a man like Colm and maybe get the chance to learn a trick or two from SB. Highly rated coaches do not always produce, as we witnessed first hand, its about getting the right fit for Meath, and in truth in will take time before we know if we got the right team together.

seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2150 - 27/08/2022 16:07:25    2438823

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Replying To brian:  "Yeah, bit of an odd one alright blackspot, hopefully he does have something lined up and wasn't waiting on Buckley to move to someone else. Garrigan you're right about the travel from what i read but maybe the chance to get involved with the mens team might tempt him, but then again his family also needs to come first."
Looks like i was right about Garrigan based on what Fergal Lynch was saying over the weekend. I swear i don't have some insider information or anything like that, it was an educated guess.

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 29/08/2022 10:48:45    2438987

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Replying To brian:  "Looks like i was right about Garrigan based on what Fergal Lynch was saying over the weekend. I swear i don't have some insider information or anything like that, it was an educated guess."
Yep hopefully he is committing . Be very interesting to see how in pans out if he does.

Will he be looking to implement the same type of style and game plan to the Men as he used with the ladies? . Hugely successful but i'd have my doubts about it in the mens game .

Or will COR as manager dictate to him what style and system he wants to implement and go for a more attacking adventurous style and if so does Garrigan have the strings to his bow to implement what COR wants?

Lots of coaches are very good and setting up teams to play one way or another either very defensive or very attacking but can struggle to be good at implementing both so will be very interesting.

I don't know enough about Garrigan to know if a defensive set up is his trademark or if he is an all round good coach who is capable of coaching teams to play several different ways.

Time will tell but good news IMO if he is getting on board as coach.

Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 870 - 29/08/2022 11:28:58    2438991

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