AS the club championships are drawing towards the final stages all over the country, the anticipation and excitement ramps up. For anyone who has played the game and was lucky enough to reach the latter stages of the competition, especially the final, then they will know just how special this time of year is. The […]
AT I sat down to pen this week’s column, I’ve actually had to check myself. Normally I’m quite upbeat about things and take a positive outlook and it’s just dawned on me that my last couple of articles have had a negative slant. Maybe this realisation was brought on by the fact that I spent […]
THE dust has settled on Dunloy’s All-Ireland final defeat to Ballyhale Shamrocks, and you can be certain that Gregory O’Kane won’t countenance any talk of ‘moral victories’. Dunloy’s game-plan worked to perfection for most of the contest but Gregory will be disappointed that they didn’t kick on and seize the initiative when the game was there […]
By Patrick Morrison WHENEVER I am coaching, one of the most common questions I am asked is ‘what is the most important aspect of being a goalkeeper?’ My answer is always the same. There is no one aspect that is more significant than any other as mastery of the position needs a competent level of […]
