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12th February 2024
07:39am GMT
"I think for this to work, and for us to improve as Westmeath, or as Dublin, or as Wexford, or whatever it might be, there has to be a sense of humility here on the basis that we have to first realise that there is a problem. "The problem is, as Liam (Sheedy) said, over the course of the show this evening - he said when he was young he would have walked to training barefoot to get there, and the reason that people are stepping away is because that sense of humility at the top level is not there."There is not a realisation that there is a problem. The big thing for me is that there is massive difference between managing an organisation and leading it, and we need leaders to stand up and realise at this level for where Westmeath are at the moment - yes they have been up and down, a hard fought Division Two to get to Division One, you get to the Liam McCarthy, and you get successful days, it means an awful lot to the people of Westmeath, but where is the back up after that? https://twitter.com/RTEgaa/status/1756821287203168417 "Where are the real people on the ground? We don't need a hurling evangelist going around spreading the gospel with sessions here or there, we need continuity, we need real people on the ground. "I often wonder if you brought somebody in from a different country with no knowledge of our game whatsoever, how hard it would be too explain, firstly, provincially how we are set up, and second of all, the access to proper facilities and how it is so different from the top seven or eight, down to where I am. "Rugby has this scenario 'This is Us' - have we lost a sense of 'who are we?' I think we have lost sense of, it's about inclusivity, it's about management, but it's about leadership too." Related links:
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