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Nature or Nurture

  • 18-09-2009 6:06pm
    #1
    TheJones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 125 ✭✭


    With so many views on who are, or will be the team of the decade whats the view on the manager effect? Well put another way, is it the skill of the team or the leadership of their mentor that has the greatest effect on the outcome of who is the greatest side in the modern game.

    Know that Cody's bringing out a book describing how difficult it is to get through a competitive Leinster championship to win again, but really I'm not interested in a well rested team winning through questionable penalties (Only messin!:D)

    However as a sports phsycology student I will be getting my mitts on Mickey Harte's upcoming autobiography which is apparently out in October, after reading the review on ( http://www.poolbeg.com/product.asp?strParents=&CAT_ID=0&P_ID=496 )looks like it might provide a good read an insight into the man's tactics and beliefs but whats the forums views on the bainisteoir?


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  • #2
    Yellowblackbird
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 603 ✭✭✭Yellowblackbird


    Have a look at 'knocking down heavens door' if you can get a copy of it. Great read. Be good for your "sports phsycology" also :pac:


  • #3
    Kenteach
    Closed Accounts Posts: 298 ✭✭Kenteach


    My opinion of the modern GAA manager mirrors that of a jockey. No matter how good the jockey is, if he's up on a donkey he ain't gonna win. Similarly, a good manager can only maximise the potential of the panel at his disposal. In that regard certainly, the Kerry team of the noughties was made up of better players than the Tyrone team (to use football as an example). But Mickey Harte made the Tyrone lads into a better team. Not trying to offend the ability of the Tyrone team, they are all very good and some are even better than that, but without Harte they wouldn't have achieved so highly. Kerry, on the other hand, would probably have been there or there abouts regardless of manager, and may have even surpassed their achievements with a mentor of Harte's undoubted quality.

    In hurling, certainly this decade is harder to decipher. Cody is unquestionably brilliant. But he has also been extraordinarily fortunate with the quality of players at his disposal.


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