townman wrote:lads would alot of the problem be we don't have the talent in the county i watched the minors again Meath this year
and they were more skillful and better strikers of the ball than offaly.
i see it in my own club the young lads give it 100 per cent but they don't seem to have the skill and cut of the lads that went
before them, we might just have to wait till they come around again, but sure we only won our first leinster in 1980.
its not just about doing the coaching that other top counties are doing most counties do it. its just seems the right players are not coming
throught in offaly at the moment.
i think we have to get it right at school levels first when was the last time we had a good St.Brendans or Bangher colleage winning side
thats where the stars of tommorrow will come from. you can't train lads the bread and butter of the game at 18 or 21 what seems to be going on
in offaly over the last few years.
Excuses! Excuses! Excuses!
Ya know its funny but a lot of like minded people like you are on the county board at the moment, just waiting for some fairy pixie to come out of nowhere and fix all our problems with a magic wand
Ah sure its all right lads if we just sit on our hands for another 10 years it will sort itself out
Keep dreaming pal
What you don't get (and probably never will) is that talent alone will never be good enough
You have to have the motivation and mindset to win as well
And that has to start at the grass roots level of a club
That means having committed coaches starting at u-6s and u-8s all of the way up
I have no doubt that your lads are committed but i doubt their coaches are
I guarantee you three years ago you would have said Donegal has no talent and had no chance of winning sam
Jim McGuinness comes along, Puts in a more professional approach to their game, demands higher commitment from the players and worked from an U-21 side who hadn't won an u-21 ulster title since 1995
Do they still not have any talent?
By Your logic they shouldn't have been able to win sam
This kind of cave man mentality is the reason why we are so low at the moment
There is a lazy lazy mentality when it comes to fixing the counties problems
everyone knows how to fix it just as long as someone else will do it