LinkBack URL
About LinkBacksHah ... right ... haven't been following it today to be honest ... I guess this means the saga goes onOriginally Posted by jerryp
Hah ... right ... haven't been following it today to be honest ... I guess this means the saga goes on
Did I not see Donal Óg and Ga on the six o'clock news saying that they were not prepared to play under Gerald Mc Carthy no matter what? I believe Canty was backing them up on behalf of the footballers. They were saying that this was more spin and were apparently livid because they had not cosented to any deal involving McCarthy staying on as manager. Seems to make a complete false dawn of all the speculation of the last 48 hrs.
Isn't it a pity yer man George Mitchell has been diverted to the less onerous task of sorting out the Middle East?
He's the boyo who might have had Cork back playing top-class hurling in time for the 2011 championship, given a bit of give & take (or leeway as it's [un]known in Cork) on both sides.
Does anyone else find the peoplesrepublicofcork.com's bias a tad irksome?
If a coach loses the respect of an entire team, and the subs, he has failed. QED.
Actually I might as well post this up now seeing as the Thread is back again to the fore
Got my local GAA Club letter to turn up at the EGM shortly where the following 2 motions are to be discussed and voted upon - I presume the same applies to other Cork GAA Clubs;
"1. Save in relation to routine matters of administration such as fixtures, venues, etc; the delegates of this Club at divisional or county level do not vote on the matter, without first obtaining instruction from the Executive Committee of the Club as to how that delegate should vote.
2. That Gerald McCarthy and his management team be removed as the Cork Senior Hurling Management Team with immediate effect and that this Club will take all the necessary steps to ensure that this occurs at the earliest possible opportunity."
Personally (I will be attending the Club EGM which will occur within days) I don't have a huge prob with 1. except that it obviously increases the procedures for a Club to have to go through before the delegate heads off to to vote plus I'm wondering re my actual club as to will it be the case the Executive Committee decide to tell the delegate how to vote or do the rest of us get any say in at all - I shall be raising that actual unclarified point at the EGM if no-one else does.
Personally re 2. I haven't decided definitively yet .... there are the two (or 3 or more factions) to this Cork Hurling debacle, widely reported in the Media, with both/more sides showing some rational to their stance, or all they are partly wrong, or are they all partly right and is it a case of nobody being entirely without sin. And is my Club at this EGM allowing an abstain to the Motion as well as a Yes or No vote - that's also unclear
Interesting Club EGM night ahead methinks
the dynamics of gaa politics may well change as a result of this. The papers don't seem to be picking up on it, but the junior clubs are using this issue to make a a serious power play.
Prime Time made a wishy washy reference to this recently in a general sense (as well as a very poor report on the Cork debacle)
But yep, this is being viewed with interest far outside of Chorcaí by a lot of entities.
And the saga goes on and on ... and on
Source: Cork Co board ?will not budge? | BreakingNews.ie (taken from the Evening Echo)
‘No change’ was the message from Cork Co Board chairman Jerry O’Sullivan yesterday after Cork’s latest heavy NHL defeat by Galway at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.
Gerald McCarthy is the manager of the Cork hurling team now representing the county and he will remain in that position, according to the Cloyne man.
“These are the lads wearing the jersey now, we have had defeats before with Cork teams and as I said, these are the lads now with the jersey and we are fully behind them.”
Queried on the support for the 2008 panel as against the paltry attendance yesterday, O’Sullivan was not overly worried.
“Lack of support at this time of the year is nothing unusual and even if we had our 2008 panel you probably would not have had too many extra bodies here today.
“People are not inclined to go to these games for some unknown reason. It was disappointing for the young lads that there wasn’t more support, we’d all love that.”
On Gerald McCarthy’s position and on the next meeting of club representatives scheduled for next weekend, O’Sullivan reiterated the county board’s stance.
“As I said at the Cork County Board meeting last Tuesday, they have no standing, we have made our decision and the Cork County Board is the body with the authority to make those decisions and we are standing by it.”
Meanwhile, Dohenys club in Dunmanway have clarified they were in attendance at last week’s meeting between the 2008 Cork panel and club representatives and a host of clubs in Cork are set to hold EGMs on the current dispute, with Nemo Rangers’ club meeting scheduled for tonight and Passage West set to hold one next Thursday night.
The club representatives are set to meet again with the 2008 hurlers in the Maryborough Hotel again next Sunday.
The next Cork Co Board meeting takes place two days later, though Jerry O’Sullivan reiterated at the last board meeting he would no longer be taking motions on the impasse.
Article courtesy of the Evening Echo newspaper.
Our own Club are meeting this weekend to discuss the motions and ALL Club Members have been written to asking that they attend, no doubt as are countless other Clubs around the County. Looks like "if" and that's an if the majority of Clubs support the passing of the motions (see my earlier thread for the wording of the two Motions) the County Board will just ignore it. Where is this going to end
Seán Óg's sister won the Miss Cork competition last night. Frank Murphy was last seen looking up the rule book to find grounds for objection.
Reply With Quote