IT has been amazing watching just how much the goalkeeping position in Gaelic football has evolved over the past 20 years. The skills that goalkeepers have been expected to perform and the levels they have been expected to play at have increased exponentially. We have become more and more accustomed to witnessing goalkeepers performing skills that […]
“Creating a player and team profile book falls under my 11th Goalkeeping Principle”
A FEW weeks ago, I had to produce a presentation for my Physiotherapy degree through the University of Ulster. The remit for the presentation was to choose a topic or area within the health sector that is a current problem/issue both for the patients themselves and the NHS as a whole. It could be about anything […]
My six goalkeeping areas are Technical; Footwork; Reaction; Recovery; Distribution and Situations.
Youngsters now at U15 level will now use size four O’Neills footballs and sliotars before progressing
“There has been no one more affected by the governmental lockdowns than our young people”.
Moving into the league, goalkeepers must turn their focus away from conditioning towards performance
Goalkeepers need to be conditioned to make explosive movements in minimum time-frames
Patrick Morrison explains how virtues and traits should define how you play the game.
Pascal McConnell certainly had plenty of presence between the posts
