Re: Offaly GAA - in Crisis
Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2017 4:41 pm
Well lads
This is another fine mess we got ourself into.
The CB stuff i'm not going to go into much detail, As what i think of the Management level of the county board is well known.
But maybe i'm been to harsh.
We talk about training our players. Maybe we should start training the CB official. Management training and decision training.
Because there Management and Decision making is rubbish.
Let have a little recap.
The CB launched a programme in the County Arms. One of the best attended Meeting in Offaly Gaa. 10 September 2014
Stage One it was called. A Good meeting. well over 100 in attendance.
A couple a weeks later
3 Training camps. again well over 100 attended.
I was really hopeful. That this was the start of something Great.
I remember talking to an ex county board official. I was looking forward to a new beginning.
He told me straight. Nothing will happen with this. It will Die a dead. The Senior County Board are more interested in looking like there doing something that doing anything.
I didn't believe him. What a fool i was.
them like everyone in Offaly we waited for STAGE TWO. Well holy fuck.
nothing happened.
I got pissed off, So i contacted Dermot Healy. to see what was happening.
Dermot replyed on the 19/02/2015
"I finished my role with Offaly in December. A plan for the development of underage hurling was drafted which was to be implemented by a three-person committee established by the Co Board."
1 April 2015 the plan was presented to the county board.
So we waited...............
Next thing we hear was when Pat Nolan exposed. on the 10 MAY 2016.
13 months of the plan sitting doing nothing.
Q a race to rush through the plan with no thought. to save face.
Instead of taking the time, to invite everyone that had taking the time to attend the Meeting in Birr and the training class or the two men that lead the meeting in Birr. The county board again to stop hard questions been asked. they launched the pathway to the club only. That is one of the worst management decision i ever seen.
Appointing Brian Carroll as director of Hurling coaching. a man that has never managed a team.
Appointing Liam Hogan. Hogan was a good coach but as a manager he not good. Fought with club, Ref and players. the wrong kind of man to get people behind him. (EDIT I'm added this note: Hogan and Carroll are excellent hurling men. really hope they stay involved but Hogan Man management skill would have to improve 10 fold and Carroll need to listen to other people. Both would be excellent coaches but they not management type at the moment. not in any way having a go at these two lads but they were not the right people for this job. they both more hand on coaches, i think, instead of management, get people on board types.)
What followed has been a shit storm. The big complain has to be the rubbish of firing the u14 and u16 management team from last year been fired after an excellent season.
u14 and u16 management team had issue around been given order from two lads that hadn't been to a match, Training or talked to any of the players.
If Carroll or Hogan had an ounce of management skill they could have sorted the issue out but like two bulls in a china shop, it was only a matter of time before the attempt to save face appointment would back fire completely.
If you told be it would be this quick. I wouldn't have believed it.
Now here we are after the County Board, Trying to save face again.
Peace talk with two lads that shouldn't have been appointed in the 1st place. (sorry lads).
The PATHWAY IS DEAD.
The above issue is one of many the county board as fucked up.
Volunteer or not. that is shocking.
Maybe there no one in the county board capable of managing Offaly Gaa.
The 10 September 2014 to the 10 August 2017, an investment of money from Croke Park and where is Offaly under age development.
Who to blame. Well, It isn't the 120 people that turned in the county arms on the 10 sept 2014.
Its not the 100 people that attended the training class in killoughey
Them people volunteer. Just cause there not on the County Board doesn't make them any less volunteers.
Its the county board who let these Volunteers down.
How to go forward.
Well, The Pathway is dead. No amount of face saving is going to recover this plan.
No one i know is interested in it. No one believes in it.
And worse most hurling people are disillusioned with it.
We need a fundamental changes at county board level.
To me it's time from the county to be split. a hurling county board and a football county board.
so the boards individually can look after there own code. Development, appointment and all thing Hurling or Football.
This is another fine mess we got ourself into.
The CB stuff i'm not going to go into much detail, As what i think of the Management level of the county board is well known.
But maybe i'm been to harsh.
We talk about training our players. Maybe we should start training the CB official. Management training and decision training.
Because there Management and Decision making is rubbish.
Let have a little recap.
The CB launched a programme in the County Arms. One of the best attended Meeting in Offaly Gaa. 10 September 2014
Stage One it was called. A Good meeting. well over 100 in attendance.
A couple a weeks later
3 Training camps. again well over 100 attended.
I was really hopeful. That this was the start of something Great.
I remember talking to an ex county board official. I was looking forward to a new beginning.
He told me straight. Nothing will happen with this. It will Die a dead. The Senior County Board are more interested in looking like there doing something that doing anything.
I didn't believe him. What a fool i was.
them like everyone in Offaly we waited for STAGE TWO. Well holy fuck.
nothing happened.
I got pissed off, So i contacted Dermot Healy. to see what was happening.
Dermot replyed on the 19/02/2015
"I finished my role with Offaly in December. A plan for the development of underage hurling was drafted which was to be implemented by a three-person committee established by the Co Board."
1 April 2015 the plan was presented to the county board.
So we waited...............
Next thing we hear was when Pat Nolan exposed. on the 10 MAY 2016.
13 months of the plan sitting doing nothing.
Q a race to rush through the plan with no thought. to save face.
Instead of taking the time, to invite everyone that had taking the time to attend the Meeting in Birr and the training class or the two men that lead the meeting in Birr. The county board again to stop hard questions been asked. they launched the pathway to the club only. That is one of the worst management decision i ever seen.
Appointing Brian Carroll as director of Hurling coaching. a man that has never managed a team.
Appointing Liam Hogan. Hogan was a good coach but as a manager he not good. Fought with club, Ref and players. the wrong kind of man to get people behind him. (EDIT I'm added this note: Hogan and Carroll are excellent hurling men. really hope they stay involved but Hogan Man management skill would have to improve 10 fold and Carroll need to listen to other people. Both would be excellent coaches but they not management type at the moment. not in any way having a go at these two lads but they were not the right people for this job. they both more hand on coaches, i think, instead of management, get people on board types.)
What followed has been a shit storm. The big complain has to be the rubbish of firing the u14 and u16 management team from last year been fired after an excellent season.
u14 and u16 management team had issue around been given order from two lads that hadn't been to a match, Training or talked to any of the players.
If Carroll or Hogan had an ounce of management skill they could have sorted the issue out but like two bulls in a china shop, it was only a matter of time before the attempt to save face appointment would back fire completely.
If you told be it would be this quick. I wouldn't have believed it.
Now here we are after the County Board, Trying to save face again.
Peace talk with two lads that shouldn't have been appointed in the 1st place. (sorry lads).
The PATHWAY IS DEAD.
The above issue is one of many the county board as fucked up.
Volunteer or not. that is shocking.
Maybe there no one in the county board capable of managing Offaly Gaa.
The 10 September 2014 to the 10 August 2017, an investment of money from Croke Park and where is Offaly under age development.
Who to blame. Well, It isn't the 120 people that turned in the county arms on the 10 sept 2014.
Its not the 100 people that attended the training class in killoughey
Them people volunteer. Just cause there not on the County Board doesn't make them any less volunteers.
Its the county board who let these Volunteers down.
How to go forward.
Well, The Pathway is dead. No amount of face saving is going to recover this plan.
No one i know is interested in it. No one believes in it.
And worse most hurling people are disillusioned with it.
We need a fundamental changes at county board level.
To me it's time from the county to be split. a hurling county board and a football county board.
so the boards individually can look after there own code. Development, appointment and all thing Hurling or Football.