frankthetank wrote:What would the negatives of actually having separate hurling and football boards be?
private joker wrote:I'm afraid to say it but the days of dual counties, especially small population counties being successful are over. Cork, Dublin, Galway and maybe Tipperary are the only counties that can do both and be successful.
All counties can do both but will probably have success in neither. Offaly days of winning anything at senior in either code are over for the next 15 to 20 years.
Lone Shark wrote:private joker wrote: Admittedly it's a bit tougher for a hurler in Clonmore or a footballer from Shinrone and there are areas where we can improve, but it can be done.
Lone Shark wrote:private joker wrote:I'm afraid to say it but the days of dual counties, especially small population counties being successful are over. Cork, Dublin, Galway and maybe Tipperary are the only counties that can do both and be successful.
All counties can do both but will probably have success in neither. Offaly days of winning anything at senior in either code are over for the next 15 to 20 years.
Here's a crazy thought though. The point of the GAA is not to be successful, if you measure success through the prism of winning Leinster and All Ireland titles. It's a nice boost and of course you should strive for that, but the fundamental point of the GAA is to provide games for your players. In the main, regardless of where you're born within our county, it's realistic to play gaelic football and it's realistic to play hurling, and to get a decent programme of games if you do so. Admittedly it's a bit tougher for a hurler in Clonmore or a footballer from Shinrone and there are areas where we can improve, but it can be done.
And give me the choice between retaining that, or drawing a line down the county and maybe winning a Leinster title some time in the next ten years, and I'd always pick the former.
LooseCannon wrote:Apparently Paul Curran was approached for the Footballers.
Anyone have any opinion.
Personally I don't like him.
Bord na Mona man wrote:Brian Cowen is acting as mediator in Offaly hurling talks
By Jackie Cahill
RTÉ Sport reporter
Former Taoiseach Brian Cowen is the high-profile mediator in crunch talks between the Offaly county board and members of the recently resigned hurling review/implementation committee.
It emerged last month that the group agitating for change, and chaired by former Ballyboden St Enda’s manager Liam Hogan, stepped down en masse – with the blame for their departures laid firmly at the county board’s door.
Hogan revealed that ‘total frustration’ led to the move, which looked to have spelled the end for a committee set up in 2014.
Hogan’s main source of frustration lay with the apparent lack of movement to implement key suggestions from the review group, which contains other high-calibre members including former county players Brian Carroll, David Kenny and Michael Verney.
In a statement released at the start of this month, the Offaly county board insisted that it remains committed to the ‘hurling pathway plan’ and was asking group members to reconsider their decisions.
The way was paved for mediation and Cowen, a renowned Offaly GAA follower, is the high-profile figure who has agreed to step in to oversee negotiations between both parties.
The first meeting was due to take place last evening, and it’s understood that five club chairpersons were also due to be in attendance at the new Faithful Fields Centre of Excellence in Kilcormac.
Details of those talks, and whether any common ground can be found between the county board and Hogan’s group, could emerge later today.
But in a stinging overview of the Offaly board last month, Hogan publicly called for the resignation of chairman Tommy Byrne, describing him as an "absolute disaster."
https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2017/0828/ ... -mediator/
LooseCannon wrote:He might get them to talk, and to do something. Because if Tommy Byrne doesn't become interested quickly, he will be forced out.
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 10 guests