Moville GAA hosts Jim McGuinness
10.01.12
MOVILLE GAA welcomed
Donegal senior football manager, Jim McGuinness, to the
club on January 5, last, to chair an open forum and
discussion on a plan for the future development of the
club at all levels.
Some 60 members of the club attended as chairman Davy
McLaughlin gave a brief overview of the forum which was
broken into three main areas, namely, senior, underage,
and community engagement.
The senior county manager was aware of the issues facing
GAA clubs in modern life with the increased number of
alternative activities available to players which would
impact on their availability to train or play for their
local clubs. He felt that with increased co-operation
between local groups, a workable solution could be found
that would benefit all the groups involved and also the
players.
He went on to talk about how his home club Glenties went
from being an Intermediate club which had never won a
senior county championship or county league to being one
of the powerhouses of Donegal GAA. He talked about the
steps that Glenties took to achieve their success and
that it was based on providing the right development
plan and support for players from under six years to
senior level. He felt that there was a strong need
within clubs to have a large number of people involved
at every level of the club and the days of one or two
people running a team are now gone and that in Glenties
they now have between 6 and 8 people involved in every
team from managers to water carriers to interested
parents who are available to provided positive
re-enforcement to players when required.
In relation to community engagement, it was felt that
clubs need to provide an ambience where the youths of
the club can come and enjoy their football and develop
at their own pace in a safe, welcoming and fun
environment.
When the forum was over Jim spent 20 minutes taking
questions about the future of the Donegal senior men’s
team and how to evolve a winning team to keep winning.
Davy McLaughlin closed the forum by thanking everyone
who had attended and gave a special thanks to Jim
McGuinness for coming up and wished him and Donegal luck
for the season. (Moville GAA) |
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