By Patrick Morrison HAVING confidence is vitally important for all goalkeepers to perform to the best of their ability especially nowadays, when the position has become one of, if not, the most important on the field of play. Goalkeeping has certainly been catapulted into the spotlight with the actions and decisions of a goalkeeper being […]
ON Sunday past, Scotstown and holders Glen battled out a mammoth game of football at a wet and windy Athletic Grounds with Glen prevailing by just two points. The Derry side just did enough down the stretch to come out on top, like they have done so many times over the last few years. With […]
GOALKEEPING is a very specialised position. A goalkeeper must have a good basic skill set just like every other position on the team, but they also need to develop specific goalkeeping traits, skills and movements to be able to play the position competently. Like any sports person that is truly serious about improving at what […]
By Patrick Morrison WHAT is Effective Communication? Communication is any form of information that is relayed between two interfacing entities. Whether it be audible, visual, hand signals or even just body language if it sends a message to be received it is deemed as communication. Goalkeepers are in that precarious position of play developing in […]
By Patrick Morrison WE all know that the goalkeeping position has evolved immensely over the years especially over the modern era of Gaelic football, a change that is now also occurring in the hurling game as well at present. Long gone are the days that the role of the goalkeeper was to merely perform their […]
By Patrick Morrison MY name is Patrick Morrison, and I am a goalkeeper. I have been a good little goalkeeper all year (well I think so anyway). This past year has brought some mixed fortunes both on and off the field, but I always trained hard, and in any matches I got to play I […]
By Steven Poacher THIS Saturday morning at 10am, we have our annual Coach Education Day at St Joseph’s in Newry. The four guest coaches presenting on the day provide arguably one of the finest line-ups we have had to date. Colm Collins, former Clare senior football manager, will kick-start the day with an indoor talk […]
By Patrick Morrison ALL goalkeepers want to improve. It doesn’t matter what age, level or reason for playing as a goalkeeper, we all want to feel as if we are becoming better ‘keepers on a weekly basis. Any goalkeeper that is serious about their position will always strive to reach the pinnacle of their ability. […]
By Patrick Morrison ALL goalkeepers want to improve. It doesn’t matter what age, level or reason for playing as a goalkeeper, we all want to feel as if we are becoming better ‘keepers on a weekly basis. Any goalkeeper that is serious about their position will always strive to reach the pinnacle of their ability. […]
By Patrick Morrison Whenever I am coaching different teams and/or individual goalkeepers during pre-season I complete their goalkeeping conditioning. They regularly ask me ‘What is goalkeeping conditioning?’ After praising them for being brave enough to ask the question I then answer it for them as best I could. By now, the GAA fraternity have become […]
