I based my decisions on years of games and the training I was seeing in front of my eyes. Duration Jul 13, 2020 You were dealing with a mindset that I couldn't understand. "The big eye-opener for me has been exposure to the type of mindset where when you push they don't want to know," Galvin said on his former Kerry teammate Tomás Ó Sé's "I had a couple of conversations with some of the older, senior players, we'll say. Paul Galvin's first game in charge of the Wexford footballers ended in defeat at Westmeath won the counties' O'Byrne Cup clash in Enniscorthy.. "It's not a part of my brief, it's not part of my role to close doors on anybody down in Wexford. His answer was, 'Well, I'll be renting a car and I'll be doing a lot of driving around'.
"My gut was telling me about one or two of the guys who left and I didn't follow my gut on that but eventually the guys pushed the button themselves.Without much time to go before Wexford's league campaign gets underway against Antrim in late January, the county's form in the O'Byrne Cup has not amounted to much in terms of positive results.Nevertheless, Paul Galvin remains insistent that the task put before him will not be solved overnight and in the closely-watched restructuring of his side, he is attempting to build a team that will ideally hit its stride in time for the competitive fixtures.

The Finuge clubman is in his first inter-county managerial role, and according to reports in The Irish Independent this morning is not having it all his own way. "He was looking at me and it wasn't really landing with him. "I probably had reservations about him from a championship game Wexford played against Carlow in 2017. Wexford GAA are delighted to announce that the Senior Football Manager Selection Committee are nominating former Kerry player Paul Galvin for the position of Wexford Senior Football Manager on a two-year term.

People probably think I came down and made rash decisions but I really didn't. I pulled him aside and said, 'While you're away now, I want you to have a think about why you're doing this. My gut was telling me about one or two of the guys who left and I didn't follow my gut on that but eventually the guys pushed the button themselves. That happens and it had to happen. That was that, he was gone. It becomes then about two guys who didn't want to be there and their attitudes told me as much anyway. "[The other] two guys left by the back door and I had heard about it before they actually told me about it which was a disappointment. He’s making great strides in the world of fashion… Galvin explained the circumstances which led to one player departing. I said to him, 'That's fine, off you go but you need to continue your fitness programme'. He came home from his holiday and he walked off the panel. "I've looked at years of footage. It’s coming up over on his page tonight. By clicking yes you confirm your accept our privacy policy.© Copyright 2020 - Off The Ball LTD. REG #614250 Marconi House, Digges Lane, Dublin 2 One of the main talking-points ahead of the 2020 Championship season, Anthony Masterson discussed the impact Paul Galvin's arrival has already had on Wexford's Gaelic football community. The Kerry All … "This is going out exclusive to the podcast this evening at 8pm... great insight and craic with "Caught up with my old roomie and wing man tomasose5 for a chat last week.

[He had] seven or eight years [with Wexford] under his belt. "They made it difficult for everybody. Where you think you can get in the game and how you think you can improve'. "It's not my plan to close doors [but] the team needed a shake-up, I felt. He swerved a bit of work and his man got the goal.

I was going, 'Wow.
He told the local media first and told me by text message. I didn't close doors, but their actions and the noise around it probably closed doors in a manner that would be difficult to open them again. He was leaving a week later and I left it till just before the day he was leaving. I said, 'Wow'. "Energy," he proclaimed on Tuesday's OTB AM, "energy around the field is a big thing for me. The proposed appointment will be considered for ratification at the next meeting of Wexford County Board in early September. Really, I never closed the door as such on those players. "I made decisions on a couple of players," clarified Paul Galvin on Tuesday's "I thought it cast a bit of a poor reflection on everybody involved which was disappointing with all the work we've been doing. I'd watched that game closely and I did a load of research on video, club games and inter-county games. "I had a chat with one guy about a week into pre-season. Paul Galvin says his "first real test" as Wexford football manager came early in the pre-season when he had to deal with a player who did not understand the need to … Paul Galvin could think of better ways that he may spend his time as an inter-county manager. "A week into pre-season, he told me he was going on holidays for a month. Daithí Waters and Michael Furlong were those who initially departed with Kevin O'Grady and Tiernan Rossiter reportedly also leaving in solidarity with their teammates. He started laughing. "After making the trip to face Antrim on January 26th, Paul Galvin's Wexford will play their first home game the following Saturday against Carlow.This form collects your email so that we can send you emails. Surely be to God, you have your programme and you do a bit of running or a bit of gym work where you're in a place like New Zealand where you can get outdoors and do it'. "Paul Gavin's first role in inter-county management, it took the former Footballer of the Year by surprise that such interest would manifest itself in the dealings of a Gaelic football team mired in Division 4 of the National Football League. "Some of these things were out of my hands," he remarked of certain initial difficulties.

I had some reservations about him.