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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "I don't know why people keep mentioning about Jim moving on, I can't see him ever going back to mange a soccer team again, maybe that's wishful thinking on my part.
I think he should stick to what he does and knows best and that's Gaelic football and Donegal.
It will like take him some time I think to get us back to hopefully being able to challenge for major honours again."
People talk about because Jim himself does. He said it last week in the build up he wants to go back to soccer again.

"Before taking the job and where Donegal were and how I ended up taking it, I just finished my Pro-licence so I want to go back there someday too. And I do want to go back someday there in the future and nobody knows what the future holds and how you might feel further on in your life. And that will be a full focus then."

TheFlaker (Mayo) - Posts: 8107 - 29/01/2024 20:05:33    2523153

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Great to see Abbey V.S doing so well in the McLarnon cup, not often we have schools competing at that level so very impressive in the ease they've had getting to the final. Future is looking very bright for Four Masters

NPadraigAbu (Donegal) - Posts: 83 - 29/01/2024 20:41:02    2523160

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Replying To High_and_wide:  "Regarding Brennan and McBrearty - they are both struggling to rediscover the scoring form we know they are capable of, but they are both working hard doing a hell of a lot of harrying and tackling. Paddy getting on a lot of ball and laying it off to other forwards which wasn't always his forte. Maybe McGuinness wants them to focus on those aspects of their playing for now, then hopefully as the season goes on they'll start contributing more to the scoreboard. Forwards pressing high and tackling hard seems to a big part of Jims new style. Great to see. The other thing is our other inside forwards Luke McGlynn and Aaron Doherty haven't shown enough to take their place"
Watching the game at the weekend I wonder is Jim going to play a total football style with players wearing 1 to 9 scoring 10+ scores per games and players 10 to 15 plus subs getting close to 50% of the turnovers.
I don't think we have the all star forwards like Galway, Kerry and Dublin who can score 1.5 against the best defences and man markers in the later stages of the All Irelands so we are going to need 10+ scores from so called Defenders and big impacts from subs in the All Ireland series if we get that far.

Tirchonailabu56 (Donegal) - Posts: 23 - 30/01/2024 00:48:52    2523212

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Thought's on piece in Examiner on LGFA meeting last week? I think McKinney raises good points. There's no perfect solution, and JP's donation was always going to cause tension between boards. It gets messy in a county like Donegal which is still developing the game with sticks and helmets, and is more acutely affected by depopulation than others. Amalgamations are common and they cause issues with domestic funding at the best of times.

That said, I think a fairer solution could have been found, and certainly think the LGFA should have had just as much say as the county board on the distribution of funds, nevermind being brought into discussions.

Correct me if I'm wrong but hurling champions Setanta, who do not field any football teams and do not have any ladies teams, would receive the full €24,000 in funding. As would Donegal Camogie champions Marciewicz Camogie (is this an amalgamation of three clubs or standalone?), who also do not field any football teams and do not have any men's teams, but share a pitch with Setanta. Whereas both team's closest competitors Burt would also receive €24,000 but to be divided between the four codes i.e. 6000 for hurling teams, 6000 for camogie teams. So the champions would receive 4x the funding of their closest rival?

SurelyToGod (Donegal) - Posts: 434 - 30/01/2024 13:20:22    2523298

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Replying To Tirchonailabu56: I don't think we have the all star forwards like Galway, Kerry and Dublin who can score 1.5 against the best defences and man markers in the later stages of the All Irelands so we are going to need 10+ scores from so called Defenders and big impacts from subs in the All Ireland series if we get that far."

I partially disagree, I think Oisin Gallen is in that All Star category and Jamie Brennan definitely has the potential to be in terms of pace, I think Niall O'Donnell could be too if he got a good run.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1193 - 30/01/2024 13:26:42    2523299

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Replying To gunman:  "On the missing players we know a lot about the likes of Langan,McGee,McFadden,Ward and Niall O'Donnell but it is very disappoining that Conor O'Donnell and McColgan got injured when they were just showing how good they could be.I have a feeling that McColgan could be very much a McGuinness type of player.tenacious and direct.O'Donnell and Daire OBaoill were our best players last year,"
I agree about Caolan McColgan, he is a big athletic wing back with serious pace who is very direct. We seem to have a lot of competition for those wing back or half back line positions though, Peadar Mogan, Ryan McHugh, Eoghan Ban Gallagher, Jack McKelvey, Odhran Doherty and Caolan McGonigle all vying for those positions

Conor O'Donnell has been very unfortunate in recent years, last season he seemed to finally have turned a corner and was brilliant for Donegal in quite a few games, hopefully he has no further setbacks.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1193 - 30/01/2024 13:48:27    2523309

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Replying To Commodore:  "I agree about Caolan McColgan, he is a big athletic wing back with serious pace who is very direct. We seem to have a lot of competition for those wing back or half back line positions though, Peadar Mogan, Ryan McHugh, Eoghan Ban Gallagher, Jack McKelvey, Odhran Doherty and Caolan McGonigle all vying for those positions

Conor O'Donnell has been very unfortunate in recent years, last season he seemed to finally have turned a corner and was brilliant for Donegal in quite a few games, hopefully he has no further setbacks."
It's a pity about McFadden-Ferry too. He suffered another bad knee injury and is away in Australia now as far as I know.
You'd imagine his all action physical style would work well under McGuinness.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9515 - 30/01/2024 13:58:06    2523315

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Replying To Tirchonailabu56:  "Watching the game at the weekend I wonder is Jim going to play a total football style with players wearing 1 to 9 scoring 10+ scores per games and players 10 to 15 plus subs getting close to 50% of the turnovers.
I don't think we have the all star forwards like Galway, Kerry and Dublin who can score 1.5 against the best defences and man markers in the later stages of the All Irelands so we are going to need 10+ scores from so called Defenders and big impacts from subs in the All Ireland series if we get that far."
Well following that logic he would end up picking the likes of McColgan and Eoghan Ban as corner backs, both very comfortable going forward and taking scores. Then maybe the likes of workhorses Jeaic McKelvey and odhran doherty in corner forward positions. Can't see that happening - more likely he'll persist with Brennan and McBrearty up top and transform them into hard working, hard tackling players which is already happening.

Surely Gallen is in the all star category you're talking about?

High_and_wide (Donegal) - Posts: 84 - 30/01/2024 19:26:41    2523381

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Looks like things are improving on the pitch and it appears that they're improving off the pitch also if the improvement in the content on Official Donegal Gaa social media is anything to go by. It has improved considerably recently, loads of good information, and better graphics , easier to follow. The Matchday squad announcements are out on time and look professional.

greenfan (Donegal) - Posts: 573 - 30/01/2024 23:46:26    2523417

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Replying To SurelyToGod:  "Thought's on piece in Examiner on LGFA meeting last week? I think McKinney raises good points. There's no perfect solution, and JP's donation was always going to cause tension between boards. It gets messy in a county like Donegal which is still developing the game with sticks and helmets, and is more acutely affected by depopulation than others. Amalgamations are common and they cause issues with domestic funding at the best of times.

That said, I think a fairer solution could have been found, and certainly think the LGFA should have had just as much say as the county board on the distribution of funds, nevermind being brought into discussions.

Correct me if I'm wrong but hurling champions Setanta, who do not field any football teams and do not have any ladies teams, would receive the full €24,000 in funding. As would Donegal Camogie champions Marciewicz Camogie (is this an amalgamation of three clubs or standalone?), who also do not field any football teams and do not have any men's teams, but share a pitch with Setanta. Whereas both team's closest competitors Burt would also receive €24,000 but to be divided between the four codes i.e. 6000 for hurling teams, 6000 for camogie teams. So the champions would receive 4x the funding of their closest rival?"
Funding should maybe be divided up by Parish rather than by club by sounds of it.

In the example you mentioned, Setanta (Hurling) & Red Hughs (Football) are from the same Parish (Donaghmore)/Village (Crossroads/Killygordon), but are two distinct clubs. They both shared a ground until the 1990's when there was a massive falling out.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1193 - 31/01/2024 09:07:53    2523424

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Replying To greenfan:  "Looks like things are improving on the pitch and it appears that they're improving off the pitch also if the improvement in the content on Official Donegal Gaa social media is anything to go by. It has improved considerably recently, loads of good information, and better graphics , easier to follow. The Matchday squad announcements are out on time and look professional."
Any word on the academy?

ryan (Donegal) - Posts: 747 - 31/01/2024 09:31:21    2523430

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Replying To Commodore:  "Funding should maybe be divided up by Parish rather than by club by sounds of it.

In the example you mentioned, Setanta (Hurling) & Red Hughs (Football) are from the same Parish (Donaghmore)/Village (Crossroads/Killygordon), but are two distinct clubs. They both shared a ground until the 1990's when there was a massive falling out."
Surprisingly that could be just as agreeable as the current distribution, but again some clubs have more than one parish, and some parishes have more than one club.

You could argue the current distribution helps smaller clubs, but plenty of small clubs manage four codes when bigger clubs don't.

SurelyToGod (Donegal) - Posts: 434 - 31/01/2024 09:45:55    2523434

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Replying To greenfan:  "Looks like things are improving on the pitch and it appears that they're improving off the pitch also if the improvement in the content on Official Donegal Gaa social media is anything to go by. It has improved considerably recently, loads of good information, and better graphics , easier to follow. The Matchday squad announcements are out on time and look professional."
Plenty of work to do on the official website yet though. It still looks like it was built by a transition year student on work placement. But I'd agree that the social media content is improving.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9515 - 31/01/2024 09:58:33    2523436

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Replying To ryan:  "Any word on the academy?"
They advertised recently inviting applications for the Head of Academy. I assume once that position is filled the academy will start to get up and running again

greenfan (Donegal) - Posts: 573 - 31/01/2024 10:02:06    2523438

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Replying To Lockjaw:  "Plenty of work to do on the official website yet though. It still looks like it was built by a transition year student on work placement. But I'd agree that the social media content is improving."
definitely, the website needs to be torn down and completely replaced

greenfan (Donegal) - Posts: 573 - 31/01/2024 11:53:43    2523465

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Replying To greenfan:  "They advertised recently inviting applications for the Head of Academy. I assume once that position is filled the academy will start to get up and running again"
If Karl is out of the equation, surely Michael is the most eminently qualified candidate for the job. Now that would be another huge boost to the county.

SouthOfTheGap (Donegal) - Posts: 700 - 31/01/2024 19:28:35    2523583

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I see that the clubs voted to not allow St Eunans or Naomh Conaill to play in the Junior A championship. I have to say I disagree with the decision as playing in Junior A allowed their reserve players to play proper competitive games instead of one sided hammerings or concessions in the Senior B.

NPadraigAbu (Donegal) - Posts: 83 - 31/01/2024 20:10:20    2523585

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Replying To NPadraigAbu:  "I see that the clubs voted to not allow St Eunans or Naomh Conaill to play in the Junior A championship. I have to say I disagree with the decision as playing in Junior A allowed their reserve players to play proper competitive games instead of one sided hammerings or concessions in the Senior B."
I hope the same goes for a couple of clubs senior teams entering the Junior B (Reserve) competition in recent years.

peiledoir20 (Donegal) - Posts: 1006 - 01/02/2024 08:45:55    2523617

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Replying To peiledoir20:  "I hope the same goes for a couple of clubs senior teams entering the Junior B (Reserve) competition in recent years."
No doubt your on about the team that takes up a lot of your posts.

rorysboys (Donegal) - Posts: 2560 - 01/02/2024 10:20:20    2523631

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Replying To rorysboys:  "No doubt your on about the team that takes up a lot of your posts."
You're still spoofing away.

You had a good week on the predictions competition. Maybe you'd want to go to a few games and get off the couch. It might help.

LOL

peiledoir20 (Donegal) - Posts: 1006 - 01/02/2024 13:07:52    2523662

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