Celebrity Bainisteoir – Anyone Can Manage a Football Team. Can’t They?
Talking Balls Comments
Talking Balls has tried hard to avoid watching Celebrity Bainisteoir, but the other evening we happened into a house where it was on and the hoors that lived there wouldn’t turn it off.
The two teams were Sneem from Kerry and St Patrick’s from Limerick. The GAA remains an amateur organisation, reliant on people that have taken the time and effort to coach players to keep the thing going. That’s not to say they are any good but at least they have some capability. Celebrity Bainisteoir suggests the contrary – that any bollix can manage a gaelic football team.
Letting some of these folks loose on your team would be like asking me around to your house to sort out your plumbing. Plenty of screwing and banging but no results. Whether letting two totally inexperienced coaches in to manage a perfectly respectable GAA club is a moot point. Can it do any longterm damage? Probably not. Cannot it do any good. Well, I suppose the clubs must have got a few quid for it as the episode last night suggested every youngster was wearing a brand new club hoodie.
Emma O’Driscoll, formerly from the manufactured band Six – so she has previous for being on dreaded reality television – took charge of the Limerick team whilst John Maguire managed the Kerrymen. The two highlights? Other than the keeper deflecting a piledriver of a shot over the bar off his head, were Maguire giving a teamtalk whilst players fired jerseys across the room as if he wasn’t there and worst of all Emma’s half-time teamtalk where she squeaked through gritted teeth ‘Failure. Is not an option.”
Hopefully next week my failure to remember that Celebrity Bainisteoir’s on the new telly will make my weekend so much better.
