Brolly and McNulty,what gives?

charlie1980

I like Joe,it,s obvious that he has brains to burn but his lampooning of Enda McNulty in yesterday paper went abit too far,I actually felt uncomfortable reading it.
In literary terms,Brolly strung Mcnulty up,layed him out and then gutted him.
Hell Joe?Mcnulty probably believes in his own spiel.
You are better than that Joe.

Dirty Dingus McGee

charlie1980 wrote: »

I like Joe,it,s obvious that he has brains to burn but his lampooning of Enda McNulty in yesterday paper went abit too far,I actually felt uncomfortable reading it.
In literary terms,Brolly strung Mcnulty up,layed him out and then gutted him.
Hell Joe?Mcnulty probably believes in his own spiel.
You are better than that Joe.

He's not.

robbiezero

He likes to get very personal unnecessarily as per the jibe against Marty Morrissey, as per his ridiculous vilification of Sean Cavanagh after the drag down of McManus. There is probably plenty of material there to have a go at some of the snake oil being sold as sports psychology etc, but there is no need for it to be so personal against one man.

HanaleiJ5N

Ah sure no, Joe's allowed say/do whatever he wants, sure he gave a fella a kidney a few years back, don't think he ever went public with that particular information though....

Hesh's Umpire

charlie1980 wrote: »

You are better than that Joe.

No, he's not.

beggars_bush

Joe might be a wee bit insecure with himself

That's fine.
Just don't belittle other people because of it

Dirty Dingus McGee

For some reason he seems obsessed with destroying the concept of sports psychology despite having no clear evidence that it is a load of nonsense and also not realising that none of these sports psychologists are taking advantage of anyone.Adults are choosing to use them and are not being forced into it.He's going on like he's almost providing a public service with some of his articles on the subject and saving the world from them.

Considering sport psychology's prescence amongst professional sport I suspect they can be quite useful for some people and shouldn't be outright dismissed like Brolly is doing.

His obsession with Enda McNulty is really quite pathetic.

beggars_bush

The mind is always stronger than the body

If you don't train the mind, the body won't follow.

Joe seems very entrenched in his ideas about things

Utopia Parkway

Joe doesn't have much time for sports psychologists in general. Pretty much labelling the whole thing a cod. Not just McNulty although McNulty is probably the best known in Ireland so is a prime target for him.

In fairness anytime I hear McNulty the term "spoofer" immediately jumps to my mind but maybe other people could get something from it.

charlie1980

Could you imagine some one like McNulty having a wee word with Mick Lyons before a big championship game with Dublin.
FFS!
Personally I think what McNulty is selling is a load of tosh.A good manager knows his players,he knows when to cajole or have a quite word.

The Lost Sheep

charlie1980 wrote: »

Could you imagine some one like McNulty having a wee word with Mick Lyons before a big championship game with Dublin.
FFS!
Personally I think what McNulty is selling is a load of tosh.A good manager knows his players,he knows when to cajole or have a quite word.

A good coach does know his players and when to cajole and when to have a quiet word but McNulty is a psychologist. He can take things further and deeper than any single coach can. Look at many of the best athletes in world sport and plenty will have been to a sports psychologist at times. Look at one of Irelands greatest ever rugby players, O Driscoll,

charlie1980

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

A good coach does know his players and when to cajole and when to have a quiet word but McNulty is a psychologist. He can take things further and deeper than any single coach can. Look at many of the best athletes in world sport and plenty will have been to a sports psychologist at times. Look at one of Irelands greatest ever rugby players, O Driscoll,

As far as I know alot of inter county teams employ sports psychologists if they have the money but their input can not be measured in any meaningful way regarding success or make players play better.Maybe you are right and some players get some positives from it

But I am old school

talk is cheap

Dyr

He can rip the p***s out of performance gypsies like mcNulty all he wants. They thoroughly deserve it.

Joe seems to be trying to convince us that he is some sort of anti capitalist working class hero and a virtue for everything that is right.

Everyone is thrown under the same umbrella of his agenda from sports psychologists to pharmaceutical companies. For a man who is very active on social media himself, he had a cut at the whole social media phenomenon on one of his articles on Christmas day.
To his credit he does alot of noble charity work and is a well meaning man but he oversteps the mark with alot of his articles.

As for sports/performance psychology it would seem that Joe is getting very personal and dismissive of something he knows nothing about. My own belief is that the majority of sport is a mental battle as much as it is a physical battle.

The Lost Sheep

charlie1980 wrote: »

As far as I know alot of inter county teams employ sports psychologists if they have the money but their input can not be measured in any meaningful way regarding success or make players play better.Maybe you are right and some players get some positives from it

But I am old school

talk is cheap

Teams choose to emply one and saying talk is cheap is nonsense as this sort of performance work isnt simply talk.

Bambi wrote: »

He can rip the p***s out of performance gypsies like mcNulty all he wants. They thoroughly deserve it.

Why do they?

Dyr

The Lost Sheep wrote: »

Teams choose to emply one and saying talk is cheap is nonsense as this sort of performance work isnt simply talk.

Why do they?

Because the vast majority of those enterprise coach types are total shysters

charlie1980

this sort of performance work isnt simply talk

Is that the hard yards run,the snot coming from your nose and the bollix freezing of you plus the boring routine of pumping weights?

The Lost Sheep

Bambi wrote: »

Because the vast majority of those enterprise coach types are total shysters

Based on what?

charlie1980 wrote: »

this sort of performance work isnt simply talk

Is that the hard yards run,the snot coming from your nose and the bollix freezing of you plus the boring routine of pumping weights?

How exactly is it simply talk? Its about changing how people think and act. With your thinking then all psychology is simply talk then and no benefit....

Mouseslayer17

Joe just has little man syndrome

Paulzx

I find him entertaining despite not always agreeing with him.

He seems to think out loud no matter what the thought is which obviously get him into trouble due to his polarising opinions.

The whole "mindfullness" thing does nothing for me so I'm with him on that. He's entitled to express his opinion that it's bunkum just as the gurus are entitled to write books and sell them to people who buy into it.

charlie1980

Would you buy a second hand car of McNulty?

Just a thought!

Dirty Dingus McGee

How come Joe hasn't written any articles in the paper attacking the legal profession?

Surely there's loads of material for him there so he launch another crusade on behalf of the little guy who's being taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

How come Joe has written any articles in the paper attacking the legal profession?

Surely there's loads of material there for him so he launch another crusade on behalf of the little guy who's being taken advantage of on a daily basis.

Was thinking same thing. Solicitors in particular are only too happy to screw money out of ordinary people and capitalise on the likes of family disputes over wills, land, property.

charlie1980

It seems that alot of posters on boards think McNulty is abit of an

Arthur Daley

dastardly00

robbiezero wrote: »

He likes to get very personal unnecessarily as per the jibe against Marty Morrissey, as per his ridiculous vilification of Sean Cavanagh after the drag down of McManus. There is probably plenty of material there to have a go at some of the snake oil being sold as sports psychology etc, but there is no need for it to be so personal against one man.

You can add to the list the article that Brolly wrote about the Mayo goalkeeper Rob Hennelly.

http://m.independent.ie/sport/columnists/joe-brolly/joe-brolly-hennellys-classy-statement-was-just-a-pr-exercise-that-sums-up-mayos-celebrity-losers-35114623.html

conor05

Extract from Brollys Indo article was quite funny

''Commit finishes with a timely reminder for us all. "You cannot breathe in the past. You cannot breathe in the future. The only place you can ever breathe is in the now."

''So, Happy New Year. Commit, be smarter, and for God's sake, wherever you are or whatever your circumstances, whether you're a bin man who's finally decided to become a multi-millionaire or a single unemployed mother who is destined for Hollywood stardom, remember Enda's words. Do not forget to breathe!''