Previous blog by athletics team manager

jumpingman

Like to make reference to a blog the current athletics team manager posted in 2009 while being the manager at the time of the world champioship team,its was regarding 2 current athletes who have done well this year.
There was an article in the sunday independent recently re 'liveline man' criticising immediate results-maybe the team manger would want to look at it also.
Alistair Cragg-new national record holder 5000m and Deirdre Ryan new national record holder of high jump.

''Alastair went out the back door in 5k, hard to figure out where he goes from here having competed poorly in recent championships. I nailed my support for him here in public so I was wandering around the warm up area feeling sorry for him and to an extent for myself''

''Deirdre Ryan is annoyed with me, I would imagine as I have not engaged with her at all after her failure in the high jump. I will leave her like that for a few days and then engage''.

Not all about you-team manager-its about the athletes-that is why people tune in and follow the sport

bat_573

Pity noone in AAI has the cojones to get rid of the bluffer. He is despised widely.

downthemiddle

jumpingman wrote: »

Like to make reference to a blog the current athletics team manager posted in 2009 while being the manager at the time of the world champioship team,its was regarding 2 current athletes who have done well this year.
There was an article in the sunday independent recently re 'liveline man' criticising immediate results-maybe the team manger would want to look at it also.
Alistair Cragg-new national record holder 5000m and Deirdre Ryan new national record holder of high jump.

''Alastair went out the back door in 5k, hard to figure out where he goes from here having competed poorly in recent championships. I nailed my support for him here in public so I was wandering around the warm up area feeling sorry for him and to an extent for myself''

''Deirdre Ryan is annoyed with me, I would imagine as I have not engaged with her at all after her failure in the high jump. I will leave her like that for a few days and then engage''.

Not all about you-team manager-its about the athletes-that is why people tune in and follow the sport

Surely it was Patsy's honest appraisal of their performances that inspired these athletes to their recent fine performances :rolleyes:

thirtyfoot

downthemiddle wrote: »

Surely it was Patsy's honest appraisal of their performances that inspired these athletes to their recent fine performances :rolleyes:

I know you are messing and will agree with me that that whole negative motivation bang the hurleys on the table at half time and you are sh1te and prove me wrong doesn't really work with athletes.

bat_573

He's basically worse as a manager than Steve Staunton (not that management in athletics and soccer are the same thing but somehow in athletics the manager seems to claim credit or else criticise athletes when he has nothing to do with them).

What about high performance director Kevin Ankrom? By the sounds of most reports a total idiot and another layer of bureaucracy added in.

Fair play to the bunch of clowns on the AAI interview board that gave him the job via skype. 140k per year salary he's laughing alll the way to the bank. Bull****ted his way to it claiming credit for Nick Willis and Valerie Vili (Adams) in New Zealand even though he had nothing to do with their success. "Our Alex Ferguson" as described by an Irish athletics official (imbecile)/water carrier/free holiday man. Another job well done AAI. Take a bow. Athletics in Ireland continues to be an afterthought.

hunnymonster

I'm locking this thread as it was started by a one post wonder with an axe to grind. Regular posters, I would remind you about the no personal abuse point in the charter. Feel fine to discuss preforamances of managers based in fact but avoid language like "bluffer", "bunch of clowns", "total idiots" etc.