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Replying To iarmhiabu:  "Exactly. It stinks of the old boys club. We need to see more people like Shane Donoghue making representations on behalf of the clubs. Too many clubs are afraid to rock the boat in case they "do us a turn". Clubs need to start sending delegates that will take into consideration the views of the club, not the same people attending county board meetings for over 20 or even 30 years."
What did Shane say/do?

Gaawestmeath (Westmeath) - Posts: 106 - 14/07/2025 16:42:00    2625672

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Therefore the onus is on the club to send a delegate to represent their views? It's not an old boys club if clubs change their delegates but that's up to the clubs?"
Do you really think younger members who are involved in their clubs be it playing or coaching have the appetite to go up and be shut down with any progressive views they have; it's a closed shop.

OverTheHill85 (Westmeath) - Posts: 104 - 14/07/2025 18:12:59    2625703

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Replying To Iakecounty90:  "This is all great in theory until you realise how difficult it must be for fixtures committees etc to actually arrange times and dates for all these games. The amount of bs they must have to deal with from clubs, particularly due to all games being neutral venues. If only a handful of clubs around the county are willing to give our senior footballers a place to train ever, I can't imagine what it's like trying to book a pitch months in advance off the same people who've no regard for any fixture secretary or co board rep"
Agreed there is a lot to it and there should be a fixtures committe and not just one person. But lets start at the beginning. Leagues are home and away so they can be fixed. That takes us to July. Championship fixtures can still be put to a day in February without confirming venues and refs. Once you balance out the amount of games per day.

Dote (Westmeath) - Posts: 230 - 15/07/2025 11:03:57    2625803

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Replying To jobber:  "Put your name forward for fixtures secretary for 2026.Its going to be wonderful to have someone in that position who understands the fixtures situation so well and will finally sort out the years old conundrums."
Jobber I would be willing to go on a fixtures committe and put in the work into a fixtures plan but don't have enough time to attend county board meetings or do the weekly logistics. As far as I'm aware there isn't a committe in place to help

Dote (Westmeath) - Posts: 230 - 15/07/2025 11:13:20    2625805

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Therefore the onus is on the club to send a delegate to represent their views? It's not an old boys club if clubs change their delegates but that's up to the clubs?"
My point is we had been sending a delegate who we believed was representing our views and then it transpired he didn't even vote in something that we as a club had a deep rooted interest in and a detailed discussion at club committee level about because he is in an old boys club and didn't want to be seen to upset the Apple cart in the county board. We as a club should obviously look to send someone else up after this year but it's not as straightforward as that. These people are not that easy to remove and especially in the day where getting volunteers involved isn't that easy they take their position for granted and almost seem to be permanent fixtures.

mintyfresh (Westmeath) - Posts: 261 - 15/07/2025 13:00:42    2625822

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Replying To Dote:  "Agreed there is a lot to it and there should be a fixtures committe and not just one person. But lets start at the beginning. Leagues are home and away so they can be fixed. That takes us to July. Championship fixtures can still be put to a day in February without confirming venues and refs. Once you balance out the amount of games per day."
There is a committee. The CCC make the fixtures for championship.

Wmeath2 (Westmeath) - Posts: 187 - 15/07/2025 15:03:08    2625862

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Replying To Dote:  "Jobber I would be willing to go on a fixtures committe and put in the work into a fixtures plan but don't have enough time to attend county board meetings or do the weekly logistics. As far as I'm aware there isn't a committe in place to help"
Fair play.The committee is the CCC nothing to do with county board meetings.I dont know how often they meet but as an ex club delegate i imagine quite a bit when they make the Championship and league fixtures plans in january,then a bit of a lull and probably a lot from june to october. If say they take all the help they can get so chat your club secretary.

jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1749 - 15/07/2025 16:45:18    2625889

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Replying To OverTheHill85:  "Do you really think younger members who are involved in their clubs be it playing or coaching have the appetite to go up and be shut down with any progressive views they have; it's a closed shop."
Examples of progressive views being shut down please? Otherwise it's just more of your empty rhetoric

Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2265 - 15/07/2025 17:12:37    2625900

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Examples of progressive views being shut down please? Otherwise it's just more of your empty rhetoric"
Out of about 15 regular posters on this forum I'd say 14 feel the county board have created a big disconnect with the clubs; so much so our chairman has been slated for his recent rant, I've been arguing about 6 months at this stage why I feel there's a disconnect and frankly haven't the energy to go through it all again. You are possibly the only person on this forum who seems to think every decision made at county board level is the correct one; from the running of the ticket sales, to fixtures clashing on All Ireland Final day last year which you categorically got wrong, to the threat to remove home venues from clubs to the fact that fixtures need to be released more than 2 weeks in advance of championship games; you even blamed the clubs for not sending young people with no interest in the administration side to meetings when in fact if people voted responsibly in the first place we wouldn't need to be sending young ones; so my concern is that you are probably one of the exact sort of delegates that would vote in favour of the county board over your club, but probably put your hand up for re-election at your club AGM each year. There can be no other reason for your bias; maybe you hold a position as it is; who knows.

OverTheHill85 (Westmeath) - Posts: 104 - 15/07/2025 23:15:39    2625961

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