Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 3

DoraDelite wrote: »

jj72 wrote: »

Do yo u think FM is the second player that has the issue? I had heard a different name

MC is the second player AFAIK.

That's who I understand is also the other player who had 'issues'.

Green&Red wrote: »

Theres a lot of talk of slander and lawsuits here, which to me sounds like absolute nonsense

As Happilylost said "not safe" could mean anything, literally anything. She's also not named anyone so I'm not sure who the slander is against, maybe the county board but thats a massive stretch

What has happened is she's been called out on apparent absolute nonsense but also f**ked up womens football in Mayo for a long time. For enough herself and FM will retire but very hard for the other 6 to come back while Leahy is there and its hard to expect him to step down for doing absolutely nothing wrong only to stand up to a cliche within the group

No winners here, Leahy will limp on next year so as not to be leaving the remainder of the group, they'll find it very hard to do well without 5-6 starters (which team wouldn't?)

Its a ****ing mess

Exactly not safe could mean anything. So by saying that they left it open to all sorts of interpretations including some very sinister things that were doing the rounds. If the players had been specific they could have avoided letting the names of management be dragged through the absolute muck

Leahy and mgt should start demanding apologies now.

seligehgit wrote: »

Should be an interesting documentary.

https://www.con-telegraph.ie/news/roundup/articles/2018/09/14/4161971-cora--the-greatest-premieres-on-sunday/

It was made before CoraGate kicked off though.

We might. When this mess is all over, Australia may well be the only place she'll be able/let/willing to play a bit of footie. It will be a terrible shame & an ignominious end to a great career. But if the writing on the wall is true, she has only herself to blame.

muddle84 wrote: »

I don't think i could be bothered watching that now.

I'd rather watch the last five minutes of last year's All-Ireland on repeat than watch that tripe.

Bunny Colvin wrote: »

muddle84 wrote: »

I don't think i could be bothered watching that now.

I'd rather watch the last five minutes of last year's All-Ireland on repeat than watch that tripe.

Umm, I think I would rather watch the Cora thing, but only because I was there and I still remember that oh so familiar feeling, it was also worse than the others as about 15 minutes to go we were in the lead...

Westernyelp wrote: »

It's amazing how quickly some people can turn on you . When you make a mistake. Even at the end of a long illustrious career. And when the facts are still fairly sketchy. Shame

The facts are not sketchy she made a cu1nt of her self cos she was told she was to be a sub end of story.
She though or her ego wasn’t having any of it and all the sh1te that has gone in since is her own doing.

Westernyelp wrote: »

It's amazing how quickly some people can turn on you . When you make a mistake. Even at the end of a long illustrious career. And when the facts are still fairly sketchy. Shame

The only sketchy "facts" here are the "personal and sensitive" welfare issues at first given for the reason for the walkout, and then Cora Staunton`s claims of an "unsafe environment" when an independent inquiry found no substance to the original claim.
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In today`s environment to make such unsubstantiated claims involving a female football team where males are involved in its management, are reckless in the extreme. Especially if one of those males, ii as a previous poster has said, a schoolteacher.
How long and illustrious a career anyone had does not in any way take away from how reckless and damaging to reputations claims like that are.
If anything such reckless unfounded claims by anyone with a long and illustrious career only adds to the damage to reputations.
Nowadays if a male acted in such a manner how long do you think his gig would last with RTE and not have a TV programme highlighting his career pulled from the schedule regardless of how long or illustrious it was?

Daughter's training was cancelled this morning, heard the Ladies County Board sent out word to cancel all activities.... wonder is that BS?

TCDStudent1 wrote: »

Why would they do that?

More than likely a BS rumour. Just wondering if anyone else heard.

ureds wrote: »

The instructions from the LGFA are that the only activities are the 7s competitions and the Ladies finals tomorrow.
All other matches and training to be cancelled.
If anyone gets injured in training they will not be covered by insurance.
It's a countrywide instruction.

Do you know the reasoning behind that? Seems very odd.

charlie14 wrote:

In today`s environment to make such unsubstantiated claims involving a female football team where males are involved in its management, are reckless in the extreme. Especially if one of those males, ii as a previous poster has said, a schoolteacher. How long and illustrious a career anyone had does not in any way take away from how reckless and damaging to reputations claims like that are. If anything such reckless unfounded claims by anyone with a long and illustrious career only adds to the damage to reputations. Nowadays if a male acted in such a manner how long do you think his gig would last with RTE and not have a TV programme highlighting his career pulled from the schedule regardless of how long or illustrious it was?

Do we have to bring bloody gender politics into everything these days?

Westernyelp wrote: »

It's amazing how quickly some people can turn on you . When you make a mistake. Even at the end of a long illustrious career. And when the facts are still fairly sketchy. Shame

The decent approach would be for the players that went to apologize for their actions and release a very simple statement to that effect.

They are burning themselves by not doing what anyone should do when you are wrong. The problem is people see what they have done, are not happy with their actions and the choice of words which are very damaging.

Its time for them to act like proper adults and people will have more respect for them. We all make mistakes but you have to recognize the mistake in order for people to forgive otherwise you get a hammering

Westernyelp wrote: »

Do we have to bring bloody gender politics into everything these days?

Unfortunately that innuendo was brought into the mix by the players who walked with their "personal and sensitive issues" statement at the outset, and yet when an independent inquiry found no case to answer was still added to by Cora Staunton`s "unsafe environment".



Peter Leahy for his own sake and that of his management, (and rightly so), had to address the issue after Staunton`s statement where he more or less made it clear it was nothing more sensitive or unsafe that a few players ego being hurt.
In light of his interview the silence from those players involved who threw around those innuendos is telling imho.



Enough of this bull**** from Staunton of the truth will out variety being left hanging over peoples good names and reputations.
Either put up or shut up and apologise.