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Replying To Leitrim1234:  "As great as what Manorhamilton are doing i wouldn't agree that copying them is the solution either. It's shouldn't be a one size fits all approach.

At club level things go in cycles especially in our smaller rural clubs - a great example of this is Aughawillan who won 3 championships in the last 10 years beating larger town teams in the final with a good crop of young players but now they are odds on to be relegated in league and championship this year.

Once again I will say that we are producing a lot of high end talented footballers for a county of our size.
its the base level that needs a lot of work.

It should be a priority to appoint a 'Head of Athletic development - with two or three S&C coaches under him for a 5 year period. That alone would have a monumental effect on Leitrim football.

After that we need to look at why we can't produce our own high level coaches - This year is the first year in a decade two of our top teams (Mohill and Fenagh) will have homegrown coaches. Not one of our county champions in the last 10 years have had managers from Leitrim (Unless I'm missing one). Think of the money alone our clubs are spending on managers instead of putting it into facilities which are way behind other counties.

James Glancy when he was in his role with the County Board has a lot of great Coach Education events that if he had been allowed continue - This has completely stopped in the last 5 years. Why is that? We have a great location for it in the COE but its not being utilised."
You must have shares in James Glancy, constantly on about him.
Never any mention of Enda Lyons, Stephen McGurrin, Sean Gallagher, Brendan Delaney or the current staff.
Workshops with Philip Kerr, Mick Bohan, Steven Poacher, Mark Doran and not to mention the workshops rolled out by the current staff.
There was a nursery workshop for clubs in North Leitrim and only 9 showed up, coaches were invited to attend Development squad trainings and only 3 turned up.

So bar the county board actually doing the coaching themselves for the clubs what do ye want?

St Mary's and Annaduff held their own workshop last year and it was opened up to all clubs.

Therese were more coaches from Roscommon and Sligo at it than Leitrim.

Andy Moran and Steven Poacher both said Leitrim people are mad about their football, the love to talk about it

But in reality very few actually do anything on the pitch to make it better

anon3 (Mayo) - Posts: 10 - 13/03/2025 09:04:41    2596184

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Is Poacher going to play Cox, Honeyman, Foley and McNamara this weekend? We've already lost Guckian to injury for the U20s are we going to risk more for a game against Fermanagh when we are already relegated? County Board need to step in here if the Senior management won't take the development of these players into account.


A lot of unrest with the fact there's no competitive senior mens football until June.
Most teams got knocked out last August/early September - that's 10 months without competitive football.

LongBall94 (USA) - Posts: 9 - 13/03/2025 09:12:27    2596186

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Replying To LongBall94:  "Is Poacher going to play Cox, Honeyman, Foley and McNamara this weekend? We've already lost Guckian to injury for the U20s are we going to risk more for a game against Fermanagh when we are already relegated? County Board need to step in here if the Senior management won't take the development of these players into account.


A lot of unrest with the fact there's no competitive senior mens football until June.
Most teams got knocked out last August/early September - that's 10 months without competitive football."
Should Guckian have played v Donegal?
Played his first 70 minutes on Sunday, drove back to college, back to Leitrim and then played Donegal on Wednesday?
Surely with a player who has just returned from a hamstring injury you've got to play it safe.

Agree regarding club football.

They should have started the championship at the same time as last year but add in a few weekends off instead of starting later and only having 1/2 weekends off

anon3 (Mayo) - Posts: 10 - 13/03/2025 12:54:25    2596227

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Replying To anon3:  "You must have shares in James Glancy, constantly on about him.
Never any mention of Enda Lyons, Stephen McGurrin, Sean Gallagher, Brendan Delaney or the current staff.
Workshops with Philip Kerr, Mick Bohan, Steven Poacher, Mark Doran and not to mention the workshops rolled out by the current staff.
There was a nursery workshop for clubs in North Leitrim and only 9 showed up, coaches were invited to attend Development squad trainings and only 3 turned up.

So bar the county board actually doing the coaching themselves for the clubs what do ye want?

St Mary's and Annaduff held their own workshop last year and it was opened up to all clubs.

Therese were more coaches from Roscommon and Sligo at it than Leitrim.

Andy Moran and Steven Poacher both said Leitrim people are mad about their football, the love to talk about it

But in reality very few actually do anything on the pitch to make it better"
I do t think I have mentioned James Clancy before, here. I was talking about Shane Ward and pointed out that both managers had a lot of the same players to work with this year and perhaps long term when that crop come through that they would be well placed to work with them as adults. No skin in the game.

Backheel (Leitrim) - Posts: 191 - 13/03/2025 12:55:35    2596228

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Replying To anon3:  "You must have shares in James Glancy, constantly on about him.
Never any mention of Enda Lyons, Stephen McGurrin, Sean Gallagher, Brendan Delaney or the current staff.
Workshops with Philip Kerr, Mick Bohan, Steven Poacher, Mark Doran and not to mention the workshops rolled out by the current staff.
There was a nursery workshop for clubs in North Leitrim and only 9 showed up, coaches were invited to attend Development squad trainings and only 3 turned up.

So bar the county board actually doing the coaching themselves for the clubs what do ye want?

St Mary's and Annaduff held their own workshop last year and it was opened up to all clubs.

Therese were more coaches from Roscommon and Sligo at it than Leitrim.

Andy Moran and Steven Poacher both said Leitrim people are mad about their football, the love to talk about it

But in reality very few actually do anything on the pitch to make it better"
Spot on. We are not serious about our football in Leitrim.

3rdmidfielder (Australia) - Posts: 379 - 13/03/2025 13:09:06    2596233

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Replying To 3rdmidfielder:  "Spot on. We are not serious about our football in Leitrim."
Don't be saying that, joeman123 & Leitrim@1960 will be along to tell you you're being negative.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1191 - 13/03/2025 13:48:34    2596244

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Replying To Backheel:  "I do t think I have mentioned James Clancy before, here. I was talking about Shane Ward and pointed out that both managers had a lot of the same players to work with this year and perhaps long term when that crop come through that they would be well placed to work with them as adults. No skin in the game."
Hold on a sec

I never replied to Backheel
I replied to Leitrim 1234

So what does this tell us???

Multiple accounts with an agenda

anon3 (Mayo) - Posts: 10 - 13/03/2025 13:50:59    2596245

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Replying To anon3:  "Hold on a sec

I never replied to Backheel
I replied to Leitrim 1234

So what does this tell us???

Multiple accounts with an agenda"
Seems to be a bit of a fan club going for certain people on here alright lol

boxtyburgerbuns (Leitrim) - Posts: 163 - 13/03/2025 14:25:04    2596254

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Replying To anon3:  "Hold on a sec

I never replied to Backheel
I replied to Leitrim 1234

So what does this tell us???

Multiple accounts with an agenda"
Apologies.
I had mentioned him in a previous comment and read yours.

Backheel (Leitrim) - Posts: 191 - 13/03/2025 14:29:08    2596255

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Replying To Square_B:  "Don't be saying that, joeman123 & Leitrim@1960 will be along to tell you you're being negative."
I don't think we are negative Square_B but we are realistic. We could be a lot better. We need to drop the inferiority complex and stop making excuses.
We all want Leitrim to be doing better. We have some good young players coming through, this league campaign has been rough but hopefully better days are coming. Leitrim Abù.

3rdmidfielder (Australia) - Posts: 379 - 13/03/2025 14:33:18    2596256

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Replying To anon3:  "Hold on a sec

I never replied to Backheel
I replied to Leitrim 1234

So what does this tell us???

Multiple accounts with an agenda"
I'm not sure what my agenda would be or if your referring to me?

I've consistently said Leitrim are producing players of a high standard that we just struggle to retain them - not sure if that is an 'agenda' or something against the Leitrim Gaa coaches you mentioned and its not exactly controversial.

I've also gave my opinion that our 'Coach education' was better when James Glancy was involved in the county board - that's a separate point to the coaching of our younger players. As you have said the likes of Annaduff and Carrick have taken it into their own hands to do this - so clearly they don't think its an area the County Board have been doing well in and have taken it into their own hands. Not exactly an earth-shattering agenda.

The sheer lack of Leitrim coaches involved with our senior teams in the last decade clearly shows we have a problem producing high end coaches if even our own clubs don't trust our homegrown coaches.

Anyway, the problems facing Leitrim football are multi-faceted as we will see this weekend when I would say our seniors will be forced to play the U20 due to the lack of numbers on the county team without them?

Leitrim1234 (Leitrim) - Posts: 340 - 13/03/2025 14:34:02    2596257

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Replying To Leitrim1234:  "I'm not sure what my agenda would be or if your referring to me?

I've consistently said Leitrim are producing players of a high standard that we just struggle to retain them - not sure if that is an 'agenda' or something against the Leitrim Gaa coaches you mentioned and its not exactly controversial.

I've also gave my opinion that our 'Coach education' was better when James Glancy was involved in the county board - that's a separate point to the coaching of our younger players. As you have said the likes of Annaduff and Carrick have taken it into their own hands to do this - so clearly they don't think its an area the County Board have been doing well in and have taken it into their own hands. Not exactly an earth-shattering agenda.

The sheer lack of Leitrim coaches involved with our senior teams in the last decade clearly shows we have a problem producing high end coaches if even our own clubs don't trust our homegrown coaches.

Anyway, the problems facing Leitrim football are multi-faceted as we will see this weekend when I would say our seniors will be forced to play the U20 due to the lack of numbers on the county team without them?"
Unfortunately players are the driving force for the outside manager. I played under managers from Cavan, Longford and Roscommon and to be honest they didn't bring anything new to the table, they are there for the money. I'd love to see the majority of our clubs with a Leitrim man over them. Some clubs are putting themselves under huge pressure to pay these lads.

3rdmidfielder (Australia) - Posts: 379 - 13/03/2025 15:36:51    2596268

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Replying To 3rdmidfielder:  "I don't think we are negative Square_B but we are realistic. We could be a lot better. We need to drop the inferiority complex and stop making excuses.
We all want Leitrim to be doing better. We have some good young players coming through, this league campaign has been rough but hopefully better days are coming. Leitrim Abù."
Absolutely agree 100%. The 'poor auld Leitrim' attidute infuriates me no end. We have to loose it. We can do better. We have to do better otherwise what's the point? And yes, there's hope for the future despite the turmoil of the last few years.

Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1191 - 13/03/2025 15:53:50    2596271

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How many clubs in leitrim this year have inside managers or managers from leitrim?

sparkie (Leitrim) - Posts: 82 - 13/03/2025 17:21:05    2596280

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Replying To southleitrim_mafia:  "In his second year we were 2nd last in division 4. Which was embarrassing even for our standards. Also 10+ point defeats to Sligo, Louth and Roscommon in the championship.

While he is a good coach it is a long time before he should be discussed as a potential Leitrim manager."
He's working with the Donegal U20s at the minute as well.A busy man

masseyferguson (Leitrim) - Posts: 111 - 14/03/2025 09:05:18    2596318

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