Club Season Over?

theholyghost

Ignorant non GAA man here!

I know we are in county final territory at the moment so in general would clubs be winding down until next year. Would teams well out of the championships be training at all?

Im very eager to try my hand at football but one club told me to wait for January. Im rearing to go though.

I dont know

Yep, you’re a bit late in the year to be getting started.
Most club championships will be at quarter/semi-final stage (maybe even finalists sorted if their fixtures aren’t a disaster)
So, you’re either going to have clubs that still have something to play for, where you’ve no realistic chance of getting game time at this stage, or those that have little to play for and just want to get the remaining league fixtures run off asap. Plus plenty in between.
Go along to your local club and train anyway. It might whet the appetite for next year’s pre-season.
If you went along to 2 or 3 of our clubs trainings in a row (Tyrone Junior Club just trying to get the league wrapped up) at this stage of the year, you’d get some game time for the reserves, no matter what condition you’re in!

kstand

Depends on the club and how serious they are. If they are out of everything now, they wont go at it again until the new year. You'll have a load of alds training like mad in the muck and dirt in January and then by summer, a load of them will have gone off the whole idea again. Same in every club - new years resolutions etc.

Clareman

Most clubs wouldn't appreciate someone new turning up to their training, they would be in knock out mode and would be a bit tense, either that or they've been knocked out and are on the beer

Most teams will do something to keep themselves occupied during the winter, if there is astro turn "training pitches" check to see if there are any slots in games, a lot of teams will have games of 5 a side football with no-hands or points during the winter to keep them ticking over, it'd be a good way to get to know some of the players at least .

Realt Dearg Sec

Clareman wrote: »

games of 5 a side football with no-hands or points

Very diplomatic.

I would disagree about the issue of joining a team's training at this time of year, although maybe it depends on the club, or the level you're at etc.

Certainly our club, based in Dublin and playing junior are always delighted to see new people turning up (only hurling though, don't want to take any risks with the big ball). It shakes up training a bit, and anyway we'll always need new lads in the next year, so it would be bad for business to send lads away...they might just take up with another club. That said if you're still in the business end of the season, you would want to be a very good player indeed to be getting any kind of game time...

Unless, that is, the team are short of players, which can happen too. So I would encourage a lad to go training as long as there is training still going on.

chubba1984

RD Sec you should mention we've 11 games left to play this year too! Need all the manpower we can get....

Realt Dearg Sec

chubba1984 wrote: »

RD Sec you should mention we've 11 games left to play this year too! Need all the manpower we can get....

Could be more, just found out we have playoffs in the championship next week. But I didn't want to go derailing the thread.

theholyghost

Thanks for the replies I figured there would be nothing left to play for, so, I was wondering if training pretty much stopped until the new year or if they keep at it a couple of days a week.

Im not really worried about getting a game more curious about what training is like!

Swiper the fox

This is very interesting holyghost. Have you ever played football at any level before? Either way it's brave of you to go offering your services at this or any time of the year, GAA changing rooms can be quite intimidating until you settle in. You should work on your fitness between now and january and make sure to play some contact sport even if only 5 a side soccer, when you start off you won't want to be getting the gawks or anything like that, best of luck, I did something similar when I moved cities 10 years ago but I had a background in the games, fair play to you.

MaroonAndGreen

I would wait til January, alot easier to settle in then!

theholyghost

MaroonAndGreen wrote: »

I would wait til January, alot easier to settle in then!

Thanks I'll just stick with my other sports for the rest of the year and try to work on the skills myself in the meantime.

theholyghost

Swiper the fox wrote: »

This is very interesting holyghost. Have you ever played football at any level before? Either way it's brave of you to go offering your services at this or any time of the year, GAA changing rooms can be quite intimidating until you settle in. You should work on your fitness between now and january and make sure to play some contact sport even if only 5 a side soccer, when you start off you won't want to be getting the gawks or anything like that, best of luck, I did something similar when I moved cities 10 years ago but I had a background in the games, fair play to you.

Just to say I did it with zero previous GAA experience, didn't find the dressing room etc. intimidating. Fitness was fine but the drills etc. are a whole new world to figure out. I would encourage anyone to give it a shot at least once if they want to try it.

Swiper the fox

theholyghost wrote: »

Just to say I did it with zero previous GAA experience, didn't find the dressing room etc. intimidating. Fitness was fine but the drills etc. are a whole new world to figure out. I would encourage anyone to give it a shot at least once if they want to try it.

Have you done it in the last few days or before now? It can be intimidating or not depending on your personality I suppose, I found it difficult enough but I wasn't a complete stranger, they knew me but I didn't know most of them, I was going out with a local girl(now wife) and a couple of her neighbours asked me to throw my lot in, fair play to you either way.

theholyghost

Have you done it in the last few days or before now?

No, just this week for the first time.