A consultancy team including Limerick senior coach Paul Kinnerk have said \u201ca cultural shift\u201d is required in Wexford.<\/p>\n
Former Donegal and Tipperary football coach Michael McGeehin of Sport Ireland was also involved in contributing to the coaching and development element of the county\u2019s new strategic plan 2026-2030, which was published earlier this week.<\/p>\n
In a list of \u201ctake home messages\u201d, clubs in Wexford are called on to raise their standards and objectives.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA cultural shift is needed: a mindset of ambition, standards, and shared accountability across every parish and team,\u201d the plan reads before listing the other messages.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuality coaching is the spark. When we lift the standard of coaching, we lift the standard of every young player in the county.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe passion in Wexford is undeniable. Now it needs direction, structure, and sophistication to reach its full potential. The future of Wexford GAA will be built by clubs who take responsibility and grow their own strength. True success is self-sustaining.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need to climb one big mountain. Just keep winning the small hills, one by one, together.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
A quality review system for county teams, which will be conducted by external experts, is also on the agenda as well as the development of a sports psychology and player-wellbeing programme.<\/p>\n
The county\u2019s director of hurling is to oversee under-age squads from U14 to U20 \u201cwith key focus on quality of coaching, elite player pathway and develop a shared curriculum, principles of play, and player competency framework\u201d.<\/p>\n
A head of athletic performance is to be appointed and he or she will have a strategic emphasis on squads. A high-quality coach development programme is also to be established.<\/p>\n
A 4G pitch to facilitate year-round hurling training and coaching of coaches is also recommended.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an exciting moment: a chance to align, modernise, and create a player and coaching culture that Wexford can be proud of for years to come,\u201d said Kinnerk.<\/p>\n
A need to change Wexford\u2019s culture and mindset is also listed among the challenges facing Wexford. Others listed include apathy, a lack of people contributing to GAA in the county, silos across squads and committees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to work together,\u201d the document reads. \u201cWe have to work together. This is on us, the people of Wexford.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Former world boxing champion Bernard Dunne, who is the county\u2019s head of talent and cultural development, will oversee the implementation of the strategic plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Dubliner was appointed to the role last September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A consultancy team including Limerick senior coach Paul Kinnerk have said \u201ca cultural shift\u201d is required in Wexford.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,850,112],"class_list":["post-339817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-hurling","tag-football","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}