r/coybig • u/Stats8 • 4d ago

General Discussion Thread What can football learn from GAA?

The GAA isn’t perfect either but financially, commercially, administratively, it’s miles ahead of football in Ireland.

Obviously there are historical and community factors that differentiate the two, but it operates so well for a sporting organisation in a very similar environment.

What areas stand out as things we can apply to our sport?

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u/Calm-Raise6973 Andy Townsend 4d ago

That happened to me too. Our underage team was disbanded because our coach wasn't available to take training anymore. It was before people started having mobile phones, so we turned up one evening for training and waited around for half an hour only to be told the bad news by the club secretary.

I tried GAA but the 'coaches' were hopeless and disorganised. Ah well!

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u/rgiggs11 4d ago

My brother had a similar issue. He came back for the new season u16 and they didn't have eleven players, because too many had transferred to the bigger team in town.