ghostfacekilla wrote: » With a bit of luck, we will never see Mark McHugh in a Donegal shirt out of blatant favouritism
Ollieboy wrote: » People do realise that Declan Bonner did the job before from 97 to 00 and didn't make a great job
Ollieboy wrote: » My real concern is the county board. I don't think they are good enough to get the right man.
Alvin Holler wrote: » I guess I just can't get too excited with Rory's departure. I think we're more likely to end up with john joe than a jim. But even more likely we'll end up with something similar.
dxhound2005 wrote: » There are good players in all the counties. Cavan, Derry and Down have good players but those counties have not won an Ulster title between them in the last 20 years. Donegal were in the same boat before Jim. Because of Jim, some Donegal fans developed a sense of entitlement. But you have no God given right to win anything, and changing the manager won't help.
ArnoldJRimmer wrote: » How many times are we going to hear this tired cliche? No true Donegal fan believes we have some god given right to be successful. Which is why Rory got a free pass for the first year or two he was in charge. What Donegal fans do want is to see some sort of progress. It became very clear that Rory was bringing the team backwards and alienating an increasing number of senior players who still have a lot to offer Donegal football. Changing manager will hopefully halt the decline at the very least
bob skunkhouse wrote: » Personally I think a lot of people are missing a fact in that - despite what we think, we don't actually have a great team there at the moment. We could get Mickey Harte himself in to manage the team, with a backroom staff of Mick O'Dwyer and Jim Gavin and we're not going to get within an asses roar of winning Sam because of the players at our disposal - yet! A few points if I may - I've gone to a good few games this year and can honestly say that at nearly every game we've gotten cleaned out at midfield. Until we can find at least one midfielder of the ilk of Neil Gallagher, we can forget about any near future success. Have a look at the last 4 in this years championship and all 4 teams boast a significant midfield pairing. 2) People are talking about all the underage talent in the county. How's this justified exactly? What have we won of late to get everyone excited? We got to a minor AI final a few years back, a few Ulster U21's successes and that's it. The Dublin team that lost to the minors in 2014 are now current U21 champions. They've progressed, we haven't. Kerry have 3 in a row at minor level. Dublin have won 5 out of the last 6 Leinster U21 titles, Mayo last year(albeit a game they should never have won), Tyrone the year before! So what I'm saying is, all this faith in the youth rings hollow enough through the lack of national success. This years minors couldn't even beat an average Antrim team. It's a well known fact that underage success is no barometer to senior success a lá Cavan U21's Galway/Clare hurlers etc etc. Let's not miss the wood for the trees in this case. 3) How many times did Eoin Ban Gallagher run into tackles v Tyrone in the Ulster SF (answers on a postcard, but I counted 4), how many times have we seen EMcHugh do it, or most of our 'young guns' do it? I don't believe it - whoever the manager is - that they've been told to just run into a player and 'see how it goes'. Which begs the question, do they have 'it upstairs' to compete at the very top level? When up against well organised teams, or packed defenses, or tougher defenders, it's not good enough to be consistently dispossessed like this. Might be good enough at u14 level catching kickouts and running through teams as if they don't exist, but at inter county football where the match ups are more equal, we need more players with a little more guile than just 'head down and run at the defence' type players.4) With regards to the management for the coming seasons, it's hard not to think that whoever gets the job is on a hiding to nothing anyway. The team is in transition and the people of Donegal need to realise it. There're too many on the team need a few years S&C coaching to bulk up to inter county standard by which time, time and results will run out for the next manager. Personally I don't see any point in bringing in a new ambitious manager who says they're going to win Ulster and Sam every year. Might be a better strategy to bring in a wily old fox in for 2 years to steady the ship and teach/coach the team a bit, wait for the team to mature a bit and then strike with the ambitious, visionary new manager able for the modern game.
charlie14 wrote: » I didn`t see it as a wise move virtually stripping the U21 team during the league to play senior and said it here at the time. I feel that by doing so it cost them a possible AI plus the benefits that could have brought to their confidence. It may not have shown up in the league, but in the senior championship in regards to S&C, the majority of those U21s were no where near the level required. Too many were thrown in at the deep end too early imo and must now have lost a lot of confidence because of it. I don`t get to see much Donegal club football nowadays, but I just do not buy the story that there was no other options. Surely there must be a number of 23 to 28 year olds at least in the county that could have been brought in alongside these U21`s to allow them to develop ? I totally agree with the need to find at least two large strong midfielders, and just today made the same comment to a number of people on the midfield of the four remaining teams. With the mark introduced teams with strong midfields are pushing up on kick outs forcing keepers to go long, and as we do not seem to have a keeper that can kick a ball to anywhere other than lump it down the middle, midfield for us is even now more important. Something that was made glaringly obvious in the league game we had wrapped up against Mayo until they introduced O Shea midway through the second half. Glaringly obvious to Mickey Harte if not Rory Gallagher though! I get what you are saying about lads blindly running into trouble and being stripped of the ball, but that to me is not the players fault, it the fault of coaching at especially inter county senior level. Actually on that subject watching Monaghan and Dublin it was something I thought Galvin has had Dublin working, on and showed during that game. To me anyway,it looked as if they were using that game to fine tune their tactics for Tyrone. Dublin knew they had the beating of Monaghan regardless of what Monaghan produced and never carried the ball into the tackle.
Minister Boyce wrote: » Jim must've read that parody piece about how to write an article like him; he goes straight into the subject matter this week in the Irish Times. No preamble! Sign of a great coach, always learning..:)
BonnieSituation wrote: » When I was reading it today it was the first thing i thought of.
Minister Boyce wrote: » His head must be fried with tactics, patterns and formations but in fairness he is always a very good read. (the tactics part that is)
retalivity wrote: » DSH reporting seamus mcaneany is in the frame for the role, alongside bonner as the frontrunner.
Minister Boyce wrote: » Banty's obviously told a trusted confidant that he would give the job serious consideration if the chance arose. I bet he's furious that his supposed friend went and and leaked it to the media:rolleyes: I'd prefer Mc Eniff back before Banty
downthemiddle wrote: Any truth in the Pat Gilroy rumours?
Redsoxfan wrote: » downthemiddle wrote: Any truth in the Pat Gilroy rumours? None.
downthemiddle wrote: Better than the Banty and Cass rumours though
