Mayo GAA Discussion - Part 4

Pity its never really worked out at county level for Gibbons, who has been an outstanding club player for a good few years now

Thought 2016 might be a breakthrough of sorts for COS but again its never really worked out for him.

PARlance wrote: »

Do we know if there's a similar style development panel under Horan?

Also, it didn't get mentioned here afaik but very interesting interview from Keegan during the week. Basically said there's no drink ban under Horan because he expects them to behave like adults.

Was a great piece, Keegan is a very interesting character, am already looking forward to his autobiography when he retires

It's a subject which has gained lots of publicity in recent years. Funnily enough I actually know more cases of player-driven bans (and self-imposed ones in individual cases) than manager ones (at club level anyway).

I personally don't agree with blanket drink bans on a generic level, but I can see why they may be implemented at times, rightly or wrongly. Teams will look for anything to generate an edge nowadays at the top level. Its one less thing a manager can be blamed for after a loss

I find though that many managers in my experience give it the big un about not implementing drink bans and so on, and while they may not explicitly do so, they do conveniently schedule training sessions friday nights and first thing Sunday morning :pac:

Its amazing how times change though. I played a club county minor football 15 years ago, and a few of us had a great session the Thursday night for freshers week (saw plenty of opposition players out too!) and the match was the saturday!

I've even played plenty of championship matches in my late teens after going for a few the night before. The best ever was an under 21 game I think it was, and it was 2 days after Oxegen one year, I think the whole team was there and absolutely still dying :pac: