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I saw that minor football all stars were announced this week. When did this become a thing? I never heard about them before. I assume there are also hurling ones but I couldn't see them. Either way my question is, is having all stars for 17 year olds a good idea? I'm not sure it is. onlyhurling (Galway) - Posts: 800 - 15/09/2018 15:13:29 2141876 Link
its crazy to have and should be removed. It started last year through Electric Irelands sponsorship of the competition i believe DonaldDuck (Tipperary) - Posts: 544 - 15/09/2018 15:51:09 2141880 Link
Replying To onlyhurling: "I saw that minor football all stars were announced this week. When did this become a thing? I never heard about them before. I assume there are also hurling ones but I couldn't see them. Either way my question is, is having all stars for 17 year olds a good idea? I'm not sure it is." Winning team played 16 competive games & did over 100 training sessions, gave up being dual players & summer jobs as required so surely these 15/16/17 year olds deserve some recognition. The GAA have no problems with it, they introduced this new age grade & lauded the teams from the Ard Comhairle for their efforts. Too many Helicopter Parents as one underage manager put it. Uimhir.a.3. (Galway) - Posts: 409 - 15/09/2018 16:57:03 2141886 Link
Replying To onlyhurling: "I saw that minor football all stars were announced this week. When did this become a thing? I never heard about them before. I assume there are also hurling ones but I couldn't see them. Either way my question is, is having all stars for 17 year olds a good idea? I'm not sure it is." Agree. Bestowing an "All Star" award on a young kid is the kind of thing that can go to their head. You might see fewer minors in future making it to senior level for that very reason. Granted of course if some kid with poor self esteem plays well enough to get an award, official recognition like this might give them a boost they need. But on balance I think it is a bad idea. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1902 - 15/09/2018 17:21:26 2141888 Link
Winning team played 16 competive games & did over 100 training sessions, gave up being dual players & summer jobs as required so surely these 15/16/17 year olds deserve some recognition. The GAA have no problems with it, they introduced this new age grade & lauded the teams from the Ard Comhairle for their efforts. Too many Helicopter Parents as one underage manager put it. Uimhir.a.3. (Galway) - Posts: 224 - 15/09/2018 16:57:03 You can recognise and rewards kids for the work/effort put in without giving them awards called all stars. We've all seen plenty of adult players do well and get awards etc and it goes to their head nevermind 16/17 year olds. Minor is not about winning its about development. 15/16/17 year olds on these squads are getting plenty of recognition simply from playing on these teams. If they get to latter stages of the competition they get to play live on tv. They get to play in front of 10000/20000 even more on biggest of days. Lauding teams and praising them is quite different from giving awards called all stars. This is nothing like helicopter parenting DonaldDuck (Tipperary) - Posts: 544 - 15/09/2018 18:01:05 2141892 Link
Winning team played 16 competive games & did over 100 training sessions, gave up being dual players & summer jobs as required so surely these 15/16/17 year olds deserve some recognition. The GAA have no problems with it, they introduced this new age grade & lauded the teams from the Ard Comhairle for their efforts. Too many Helicopter Parents as one underage manager put it. Uimhir.a.3. (Galway) - Posts: 224 - 15/09/2018 16:57:03 You can recognise and rewards kids for the work/effort put in without giving them awards called all stars. We've all seen plenty of adult players do well and get awards etc and it goes to their head nevermind 16/17 year olds. Minor is not about winning its about development. 15/16/17 year olds on these squads are getting plenty of recognition simply from playing on these teams. If they get to latter stages of the competition they get to play live on tv. They get to play in front of 10000/20000 even more on biggest of days. Lauding teams and praising them is quite different from giving awards called all stars. This is nothing like helicopter parenting DonaldDuck (Tipperary) - Posts: 544 - 15/09/2018 18:10:50 2141895 Link
Replying To Uimhir.a.3.: "Winning team played 16 competive games & did over 100 training sessions, gave up being dual players & summer jobs as required so surely these 15/16/17 year olds deserve some recognition. The GAA have no problems with it, they introduced this new age grade & lauded the teams from the Ard Comhairle for their efforts. Too many Helicopter Parents as one underage manager put it." Well said. Of course it's a nice recognition for these lads. And may I congratulate the Meath players on getting theirs. And indeed all the players named. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 16/09/2018 09:39:35 2141945 Link
Dont really have a problem to be honest with them, sure awards exist in clubs etc. Congrats to all the winners. TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 16/09/2018 10:30:50 2141950 Link
Replying To DonaldDuck: "Winning team played 16 competive games & did over 100 training sessions, gave up being dual players & summer jobs as required so surely these 15/16/17 year olds deserve some recognition. The GAA have no problems with it, they introduced this new age grade & lauded the teams from the Ard Comhairle for their efforts. Too many Helicopter Parents as one underage manager put it. Uimhir.a.3. (Galway) - Posts: 224 - 15/09/2018 16:57:03 You can recognise and rewards kids for the work/effort put in without giving them awards called all stars. We've all seen plenty of adult players do well and get awards etc and it goes to their head nevermind 16/17 year olds. Minor is not about winning its about development. 15/16/17 year olds on these squads are getting plenty of recognition simply from playing on these teams. If they get to latter stages of the competition they get to play live on tv. They get to play in front of 10000/20000 even more on biggest of days. Lauding teams and praising them is quite different from giving awards called all stars. This is nothing like helicopter parenting" If that's the case should we get rid of MOTM in minor games as well? Its just an award for performing well. Seansul01 (Dublin) - Posts: 6 - 16/09/2018 11:48:31 2141964 Link
Replying To onlyhurling: "I saw that minor football all stars were announced this week. When did this become a thing? I never heard about them before. I assume there are also hurling ones but I couldn't see them. Either way my question is, is having all stars for 17 year olds a good idea? I'm not sure it is." A crazy stupid idea, for what is effectively a juvenile competition. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4895 - 16/09/2018 17:47:36 2142013 Link
having seen a fair amount of the minor games this year, the hurling selections seem reasonable with a good split across the teams that performed well in the provincial competitions and then how they performed in the All Ireland series. onlyhurling (Galway) - Posts: 800 - 24/09/2018 16:07:10 2143558 Link
Great Idea, the minor All Stars. The only question i have when they get the trip to Dubai as a result do their Parents travel with them or is their a nominated GPA Rep? WunderBar (Galway) - Posts: 290 - 25/09/2018 12:01:24 2143692 Link