You want to have control? Take it
Wednesday 12th May 2010, 2:30PM BST.
FOOTBALL clubs may be left to run their own league and competitions from 2011.
Mark Le Tissier, chairman of the Guernsey Football Association, sees that as an inevitable conclusion to the constant clashes between GFA and the clubs on how best to run football.
Breaking point was reached when senior clubs, minus Athletics, who declined to attend, met at the Corbet Field to discuss how they wished to run the leagues from the next season and forwarded their set of proposals to the ruling body.
‘We are disappointed that they [the clubs] are trying to dismantle the plan,’ Le Tissier said yesterday.
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As demonstrated in the artical above, the GFA have no clue how to manage football in Guernsey. Their own players are not in agreement with the managerial body which is supposed to be promoting the game!! Hellooo! Something is not right!
Its about time that the GFA quit. I am an ex women footballer and know from my experience under their rule that they have only hindered the womens football league in the Island. The GFA have always put womens football to the back of their prioty list.
The reasons why this is true follows:
1. GTA changed the womens matches to winter league. Ok..so now from the ages of 18+ womens football now had to make up their falling numbers when their most skilled players are away at University. This also prevent our womens league from learning any new skills from this pool of ladies at University.
2. Women football matches are also on a Sunday. Perhaps I am not thinking right?? Is’nt Guernsey a Christain island? Am I right in saying that there are many practising Christains in the island which would not be able to attend matches because of their religion?
3.The GFA separated the under 16 from training with the women’s football. They did not even provide this age group with any matches. These ladies have the greatest potential to grow into brilliant footballers, however due to no matches (due to the GFA) for this age group to use their skills these potiential footballers are lost to other sports/activities.
I do believe that someone else who has a passion for womens football could do such a better job at promoting and organising this sport. Other sporting bodies in the island promote womens involvement(not just in junior sports where funding has been provided from the UK!). Football is also a game for enjoyment. There is nothing wrong with the game itself its the inability of people implementing policies and procedures placed resticting growth and enjoyment of the game. Anything which is restricting on the game can only lead to hindering the game and in effect will destroy it.
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Verity. I accept that you seem to have strong views on this, but I can’t agree with your viewpoint. My understanding is that the women’s league is difficult to administer. Is this the same league that wanted to rearrange a fixture because the X factor final was on TV? (Might have been Big Brother – not 100% sure on that one.)
The GFA staff are incredibly hard working, are rarely appreciated, and I have massive sympathy for them as they have a thankless task. I suspect that other sports may be governed better because they have learned by the parochial and self-serving sniping that has gone on from time to time with the clubs.
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I am a ladies football coach & I have to say – Verity, whilst your points are maybe valid, it is wrong to blame the GFA…
The move to the winter league from the summer was the ladies choice – all ladies players were invited to an open meeting & clubs were asked to vote – 2 people in the whole room voted to keep it in the summer (I was one of them!) & naturally the vote was carried & the league was set up in the winter.
The age restrictions were put in place by the GFA’s governing body – the English FA & I believe they were based on guidelines from UEFA, so to blame the GFA for the move to the winter & the age restrictions, is both inaccurate & wrong…
Your comments about Sunday mornings are also not accurate… I have coached &/or been involved in ladies football for nearly 15 years now & have never had a problem with a Sunday morning fixture – trust me.. if the bunch of girls I had this year can make a Sunday morning then anyone can!
As for the youth side of it, if a league was set up then it would probably contain 2 teams – there are simply not enough under 16 girls to form a league – the GFA do however run a soccer school, therefore providing football for under 16′s…
As far as I see it, the GFA are doing a great job… Trust me… as a guy that has had his fair share of run ins with the GFA in the past, I have to say all of the latest criticism is very harsh & everyone involved in football should be thanking them for the great job they do – not criticising them for rules & regulations that the clubs themselves agreed on a few years ago!!
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