A team who drinks together, thinks together, stays together and plays together!

KevHill (Antrim) - Posts: 271 - 01/02/2012 16:33:41    1103704

Beautiful KevHill

Superglue (Kerry) - Posts: 1283 - 01/02/2012 16:40:42    1103713

Sure at this stage Brolly you must be coming to the end of the ol 'career'.

Might I suggest you hang up the boots n buy a set of golf clubs.

That way if you are hungover you are ruining no-one but yourself! None of this havin to bust yourself for some gimp who is trying to make a name for himself as a manager mallarkey. sure the management lark is little more than an ego trip for a has-been in most cases.

I understand liamwalkinstown is currently giving golf lessons for reasonable rates.

Horse (Laois) - Posts: 1146 - 01/02/2012 17:08:17    1103735

Snuf, you make us look like fools with you comments. Brolly says he is from a junior club, there are no junior clubs or teams in Dublin doing that amount of training! Brolly, do you not realise that when a manager is paid, there are going to be a mad amount of sessions!!! Thats why you train so much, manager is paid by the session!!!

moydavitt (Mayo) - Posts: 44 - 01/02/2012 17:09:50    1103738

Brolly is right, there is no reason training and matches at the weekend couldn't be held on Friday evenings or Saturday evenings. It wouldn't have to be every weekend, just a reasonable balance that you don't have to put your social life on hold to October or even later if your still in the champo, life's too short.

whitenred (Tyrone) - Posts: 156 - 01/02/2012 17:39:47    1103762

Brolly the fact is that gaelic football is an amateur sport, played by its members simply for the enjoyment. It is not like you are deciding wheter to give up on a job or an education. My point is if you think that your not fully enjoying the game then you dont have to play.

PK57 (Louth) - Posts: 1664 - 01/02/2012 17:53:55    1103777

Surely, playing an amateur sport that you love is a social life

dhorse (Laois) - Posts: 11374 - 01/02/2012 18:13:35    1103796

completly agree with Brollys likening to the saturday and friday football. God, how i miss the u14 matches on a friday evening in the middle of summer - nice hard ground, the bouncy ball and if ya got lucky enough, ya might find yourself playin a league game out in Connemara out beside the ocean and the mountains which, on a Summers Friday evenin at sunset, was a joy to behold!! and then the Saturday evenings, another momentus occasion. as Tony Davis and Mcstay said last year on The Sunday Game after the Galway Meath qualifier, the atmosphere was electric. again, another dry warm summers evening with no one doing anything so Navan was packed to the rafters. only thing that went wrong that day was the result! but yeah back to the point, i think most club games should be on Saturday evenings which in Galway is rarely the case. I even think they should switch more national league games to Saturdays. they'd certainly make more money in my view.
as for training id rather it on a Saturday morning to a Sunday. go out Sat night and enjoy yourselves without a worry. Sunday mornings as just depressing..

galwayman95 (Galway) - Posts: 292 - 01/02/2012 18:22:53    1103811

Dont mind the social life, its the fact that we get about 1-2 championship games between now and september that frustrates most of us.

Pinkie (Wexford) - Posts: 4100 - 01/02/2012 18:29:33    1103817

Horse, I agree with you on the managers thing. Usually a new manager has come about after a poor championship performance the previous year. So the new fella comes in and says 'i'l whip these fellas into shape' and it is hammer and tongs early in the year, sunday mornin trainings, no out etc etc. Then the team are flying in march and april. But because of this they peak too early, start to get browned off with everything on the managers terms and it's the same old story. What these managers dont realise is the last guy came in with the same notions, and the one before him. They were all calling sunday morning training in january and that is part of the reason they got dumped out of the championship in august by the gang down the road with half the pick they have. The truth is many managers dont see their players as people, they see them as parts of their team, and then they arent good enough to notice the unrest before it happens, just like the last fella. When what they should be doing is trying to set themselves apart from the previous guys.

TheMaster (Mayo) - Posts: 16187 - 01/02/2012 19:58:06    1103888

Our senior team has taken a different approach this year.
League doesnt start to mid April and the Championship doesnt start to August.
At the minute we are training Tuesday nights with circuits and the the lads just do their own weights as and when....
Think we might be starting sunday morning trainings shortly. To be honest it is a slight inconvenience but the majority of our team dont mind.
It just means when we do get a saturday night out we make the most of it, usually after a sat night game which happens the odd time in Derry.

Kevhills quote is a great quote and is part of the reason i think our team gel so well. Always a help on the pitch.

bosch (Derry) - Posts: 873 - 02/02/2012 15:30:54    1104339

I think Brolly has raised an interesting point. I think managers have to realise that, although they are serious and require real effort, club hurling and football are pass times that should be enjoyed.

Having Sunday morning training sessions all year makes no sense. As the year goes on players will begin to resent their free time being encrouched upon in such a way and effort/intensity can seriously drop off at the most important point of the year. In that sense those training sessions could well prove counterpoductive imo.

I played under a few managers and my club was successful when we'd a manager who knew when to train hard and when to give a bit of leeway.

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13833 - 02/02/2012 16:08:09    1104376