Mayo GAA Discussion

Positive on the face of it but I wonder what is driving this. This is Mayo so we can expect further drama in the coming weeks.

Now the hard part installing a Dublin \ Kerry \ Tyrone standard of Chairman. First he has to be found, then persuaded to stand and finally Clubs need to put aside their own self interest and put in whoever will be best for County.

Personally I think we need a complete outsider. By this I do not mean a non Mayo person but a person who is a complete outsider to Mayo GAA \ Divisional Executives. Somebody who knows how to successfully run an organisation. It does not matter if from Mayo or not.

The winning or losing of next AI final starts here.

It didn't he walked. No pint employing professionals if you don't use them properly. Old saying "No point having a dog if you want to bark yourself" or something similar.

Can you explain what \ where coaches are needed and what you want them to do.

Would have no issue with your point on its own but unfortunately there are more points to consider.

• What is coaching philosophy going to be for these coaches. Let us say that we have 8 coaches in County odds are we will have 8 philosophies. 1 will follow Mickey Harte, another Jim McGuinness, Dessie Farrell, Donie Buckley etc etc so no consistency and then players arrive in minor , senior squads where different philosophies again. Thus to solve this we would need an agreed philosophy and a "Supervising Coach" in overall charge to ensure consistency of approach, manage recruitment, coach training and development etc etc Then question of where this person sits in hierarchy, does he work under county manager, Chairman or someone else.
• So now have Senior Manager, Minor Manager, U20 manager, Hurling Managers, Supervising Grass roots coach, County Secretary, Treasurer, Commercial Officer etc etc. Who is going to manage all of these potential professional ? A part time amateur Chairman who may have never managed anyone or anything in his life with a full time job. I think not.
• In team sport everybody is now looking at everyone else and learning from them and many sports professionals are moving between different sports and bringing what they learn in one to the next. The GAA is doing this as regards central management to a certain extent plus some counties are seeing the light. If Mayo does not modernise quickly not alone will it not win an AI it will end up returning to the dark days of the 70's. I think we can learn a lot from Rugby who are not as big as GAA but have to mange both Professionals and Amateurs in playing, coaching and management streams.

Of course I have an agenda here just like every poster on Boards. On this one mine is making contributions for the betterment of Mayo GAA leading ultimately to winning an AI.

Who is "our friend in London" that you wish to link me to ? I have no idea who this is.

It always amuses me when people resort to "Conspiracy theories" when ideas and opinions are put forth which they do not agree with and which they do not have the intellectual capacity to counter.

I post my own thoughts \ opinions \ ideas which are not to everybody's liking. If everybody had the same opinions Boards would never have been set up.

When somebody resorts to making a personal attack on me I know I am winning the arguement. Like playing football, when your opposing number started playing dirty you know that you have won the football battle.

Ah Tim O Leary. Just to be clear I have never met him, spoke with him or had any dealings with him of any nature. The same goes for "Mayo Man in London".

"Corporate Governance" is one of the great "buzz" expressions of our time but unfortunately most people do not seem to realise that every organisation has "Corporate Governance" some have "good" and some have "bad". Those with the "bad" invariably end up in the news for the wrong reasons a lot more than those with the "good". Compare and contrast Mayo GAA with Dublin, Kerry, Tyrone, Kilkenny, Limerick, Tipperary or indeed Leitrim, Carlow, Wicklow and Fermanagh.

I have no idea of the ins and out of the rown between Mayo GAA and Tim O Leary as unfortunately there is no real transperancy as regards operation of Mayo GAA. In some ways it is unfortunate that threatened court case did not occur as maybe we would have learned something about how Mayo GAA operates.

"Mayo GAA not being for sale" is another buzz expression which is meaningless. I don't know if LM actually said this or not but meaningless if he did.

if I decide that I want to donate to any cause I can do so unconditionally or I can do so with conditions that is up to me. if is up to receiver to decide if my conditions are acceptable to it or not. If not it would always be helpful to know why exactly both for potential donor and receiving organisation members.

I probably move among different "Mayo GAA People" to "Green & Red" but I know many who think LM did a bad job as Chairman and welcome his departure. This has nothing to do with TOL saga as none of us knows exactly what went on or who was right or wrong.

Maybe Mayo GAA should sell off the senior team to a private individual \ group of individuals for a number of years as an experiment to see if this would deliver AI success. It could do no worse than current arrangement has done for 70 years. I don't think the fans would care one bit so long as this delivered success.

Things have to change if we want success. Will they ? Probably not if new Chairman comes from current County Board gene pool.

Another interesting article by Anthony Hennigan in Western People where he focuses on Review of Mayo performance by Chairman \ County Board and effectively questions their willingness to do it in a meaningful or an effective manner. I agree with him nothing substantive will come of this review especially with Chairman heading out the door.

It was also an unpaid role that takes up a lot of time when he decided to run for chairman in 2019. You cannot use the excuse he did not know what he was getting himself into when he was already on the mayo gaa executive before he bacame chairman.....

In fairness, this is how many people view the gaa. Many see the county teams as the be all and end all and zero interest in the club's. All the controversy has been about the intercounty senior team but very little gets mentioned about the nuts and bolts of things such as boundaries for clubs, issue around amalgamations. Look at the issue around lacken not being able to fulfill championship fixtures and knock on effects to other teams in the group. How about clubs teams sitting on their hands for the better part of the summer with no meaningful games.

There have been a two tier system within the county for years, clubs are not the priority and this is what needs to change.

@Green&Red what evidence have you got that the questions are from TOL? It seems you have your bee in the bonnet about someone who walked away nearly 2 years ago and gave all his money to charity which are far more worthy clauses and if I am right quietly when he could have taken the MCB to court and caused more embarrassment

i personally don't think the questions needed to be ask because James Horan/MCB could easily have put most of the issues to bed by doing a podcast/interview with the Mayo News 2 weeks ago

whatever you may believe things are not that rosy at HQ - the chairman has resigned unexpectedly while the Conduct on the sidelines during the final needs to be reviewed.

So TOL set up a twitter account 4 years ago before he was even involved to attack the county board - NOT a hope