Amateur for players - full time professional for many coaches and administrators!You can understand the players wanting to get paid, but is this the beginning of the end of this amateur game?
What I meant was that this is the de facto situation!That will not work.
What I meant was that this is the de facto situation!
Personally, I believe that the death of gaelic football started upwards on ten years ago with the advent of the "northern style" of football.
Amateur for players - full time professional for many coaches and administrators!
I was never overly mad on Gaelic games, probably because I was forced to play it at school for years instead of football, and we all wanted to play football
Er - did I SAY that I had any problem with the way that the GAA managed their own affairs? All I did was point out some facts about the situation as it currently pertains!Do you have any objection to charities such as Goal, Concern or Barnardos employing full-time professional administrators, while the majority of their work is done by amateur volunteers?
If not, what's your problem with the GAA doing likewise?
One of my sons plays GAA .... He also plays for a great club with world class facilities (paid for by us taxpayers admittedly) e.g. flloodlit all-weather pitch, carpet-like grass pitches, gym, changing rooms, skilled mentors etc.
Er - did I SAY that I had any problem with the way that the GAA managed their own affairs? All I did was point out some facts about the situation as it currently pertains!
Just for the sake of pedantry, the national Sports Capital Programme is funded not by the taxpayer but by Lotto surpluses. The skilled mentors are funded in every county within the Republic exclusively through GAA resources, although this is not the case admittedly in Northern Ireland.
To answer the original posters question, we are not seeing the death of the GAA. Simply, we are witnessing a revolution within the GAA led by the players.
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And the players are expected to sit back and keep training while they see none of this money??? Never going to happen!!
In fairness Cork County Board is not typical of other county boards. Neither is Frank Murphy a typical county secretary. And yet... Cork is one of the most successful counties at both football & hurling, and has THE best club scene in the country in both codes, and its County Board seems to have the support of the vast majority of its clubs. It must be doing something right!For far too long the players have been treated poorly compared to the administrators within the various county boards. And none more so than here in Cork. (Just read the books by Justin McCarthy, Brian Corcoran and Ger Loughnane in Clare)
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Added to this you have county boards who have to be dragged to the negotiating table for every little concession instead of them being proactive and giving when it is deemed appropriate. The Cork County Board is more like the Politburo in Stalin’s time than a board elected to administer GAA. Especially when you have the County Secretary earning a salary (and it’s a job for life!!) lecturing players about amateur ethos. In 2002 he didn’t want to give the players gym membership or a second jersey. Players who swapped jerseys after a game had to pay for them (after an All-Ireland U21 Final)
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Because of actions like this the GAA is in for a seismic shift in the coming years.
It is probably to do with the marketing to saturation point of the Premier League and Champions League and blanket TV coverage. Note: the kids don't support League of Ireland clubs.
Professionalism is coming and there is nothing anyone can do about it.
IMHO, paying GAA players will be the death of soccer in Ireland. GAA will become more attractive to soccer players, many of whom chose that game over GAA for monetary reasons.
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