No quitten we're whelan on to chitchat 11

SSpent the day at Dundalk show. We got first prize and reserve champion with a bull calf. **** day weatherwise

I know you mean well for your son and everyone wants the best for their child. But as a coach of an u13 team I have a Pain in my hole from parents constantly giving out that there little Johnny is not startling or playing enough. As a coach u try to be as fair as possible . At that age the kids want to win and you are trying to ensure your team is set up to play as well as possible and to give all the kids a change. If u don’t win a few matches the kids are not happy and the other parents giving out that how would u win when u don’t have the best team on the field. However the amount of parents going on that their lad not playing and they turn up to 25% of trainings. etc. not suggesting that this is the case with your lad but u can’t keep everyone happy and I doubt if he is not getting a starting position in one club he is suddenly going to be in new club unless u are going from a big club to a smaller club.

Awful days weather here. Cool and pouring rain most of the day.

Tbh I would usually fully agree with everything you say with regards to the sporadic trainers but in my eyes this is a different situation than my little Johnny not getting enough game time after being missing for months on end.

He really does train twice a week the vast majority of the time as he likes football and any time he did miss training through sickness etc I made sure to text the coach with reason he couldnt make it. Just for a bit of context on his commitment, his school went on an overnight trip last week. He decided to bring his football gear to the trip with him so I could collect him and he togged in the car to be ready to play albeit a bit late for 6pm training. There are other members of that team who only train once a week as they play different sports one of the nights (which is fine too) .

When I spoke to the coach of the "new" team he said their philosophy was to bring as many kids as possible through to adult football wether that be senior, intermediate or junior B. Thats the sort of ethos i want to be associated with. I don't expect my lad to waltz into any team and he is under no illusion that he needs to work hard on his own skills but with his self confidence on the floor I think it was either take him to somewhere else or he would have opted out of gaelic football altogether.

There are other sports, we've been there with one of our kids. He was the last player to be put on for 2 minutes or whatever, always at training etc. He started running. Really grew into it, was a bit ott at it for a while.

Fantastic, some finish to get out the gap.

Was involved with minors at club for a number of years, the biggest problems was the lads that their parents were involved in the under age level on the way up along they had the attitude to getting games regardless of training, turning up on time etc. at present good friend son is playing at under 13 level and is not getting much game time because his dad played for another local club at a higher level, the young lad made the school first year team and was one of the main players on the winning team and some of the lads from his club didn’t make the team and proves that bias is big at club level underage.

There was an article about corofin football club in Galway a while back.
The man over the underage structure places no emphasize on scores or winning up until u15 or similar. It is all down to developing the players, and focusing on improvement all the time

Totally agree, if you say anything you're an asshole. They'll play the stars from the age below to make up the numbers rather than give the weak players gametime. As for the game at the end,dont get me started

wantateachpe on X is great, there is Taurus and cul camp sites too

its funny to be disappointed with silver for Adeleke after the last few days. great race and just pipped in the last few metres. things really coming together for us for the Olympics, some genuine contenders not to mention the boxers, rowers and other sports

Was a super race, she seems very grounded, not short of talk

Don't think so as a lot of countries never included it in the first place. New Zealand An Taisce will be livid with this decision

Clare Daly eliminated.... a great day