Athletics Weekly

HI sidelined - I PMed you rather than publisie adn confidential conversations on line. I know we are not making any comments specifically about this LInt but I woudl be very interested to hear what Geoff has to say about Wales' lack lustre performance again. Geoff, if you didnt know, is pretty switc...

I wouldn't be writing anyone off quite yet - make a good judgement at the end of the season. OK so some of the psirnts are not up to it but again it is early days although not shwoing many signs of good form for later. Rhys has moved back to his caoches in Wales hasnt he - so much for the innterferi...

I have not been involved too much recently but what I saw in the L1 and L2 was mostly rubbish and even though it was aimed at a basic level, there was too little basic skills taught. The u coahc site is useful but you cannot learn evrything by a website. Ithink as time goes by people will start aski...

I think a lot of it was contractural - it may have been CVC or Collins who had parts in the lottery contract that criticism of a host of things to do with UKA etc may result in a loss of funding and there was also a bizarre part of it which appeared to suggest that a positive atitude and conforming ...

I agree Sam - maybe in some events we needed some technical know how but jus becuase we havent had mnay good female shot or discus throwers at the top level is simply because we have ot had the athletes and many of our 6 foot women do notwant to be throwers. We do not have lots of big strong girls o...

Sorry exile - I was half asleep - I agree with you - it was athlete 101 and respectfully disagreeing with him. I am not against foreign coaches at all , but I think we have had far too many recently and paid a lot, working with our best and not exactly made a big difference across the board. We have...

Sorry exile , (now corrected to athl101) but you are somewhat misguided about the coaches you refer to. Not all of the athletes they were involved with were successful and in some cases it is pretty easy to pick the best athletes and then take credit for them not doing much better than before. Ruthe...

I would have liked to have seen Kevin Tyler at the helm but now all the foreign coahces who came over in the first wave have all gone -I think we should repair much of the damage done in the non elite part fo the sport who feel disenfranchised. MAny of the jobs have turned in to poisoned chalices an...

Do you mean a 'long handled spoon' ? I havent hear that expression since O level English days or should I say reading ye olde English! and recently saw it in relation to an article about thatcher's death.

I have no need to disbelieve that we talked. I know I was critial about our sprinters in genreal and why the occupied 60% of the funding if not more at the time but I remeber that COllins had got the structures in place and also we had the best junior adn u23 results for some time and there were nea...

They are my opinions! CVC brought in his team (of foreigners) and I am sure he had some say in how much they were paid (Bob weir was not one of his appointments and he was got rid of without having served a year or a complete winter so how could you decide if he had been effective?) - e.g. Lough cen...

HA ha - who dares wins! Few if any will dare speak out because the same people are still in charge! Dare I suggest that your identity has already been requested and revealed to UKA? BTW when I sat down and spoke to him at length in the US I thought he was a good bloke and someone I could do business...

Kermit, I appreciate what you are saying and with respect to me - but I was asking not about politics in general but what were the specific politics here. I just realised he is in charge of UKA and England as well. I think you are right about archiving but the people who I have championed like Malco...

I also think this is a good appointment and popular because- and call me old fashioned - number 1 he is British coach and number 2 he is a coach with a very successful background in coaching elite performers which will sit well with the rank and file. It is demonstrating that there are places in the...

Just run - i dont underestimate the NCAA haivng been there for a couple of years and kept an eye on results. With ref to brett adn dai - they woudl have been juniors or sophomores when the US have 4-5 years of competing or eligibility at that age. All f those i mentioned would hav got poitns and mad...

Jeremy if you look at current teams and previosu teams for lough brough they would get points in the NCAA finals. Look at last years results and in the field especially the Loughborugh team and UWIC team of recent years would score points. E.g Brett morse, dai Green, and a high jumper (2.25 adn ong ...

I can not think of many marqueeuni athletes if any who do not do BUCS or have not attended. 10.41 wins the 100 and 11.97 the women with plus winds. Not that good of a standard. If you look at the CBP's the BUCS are pretty near to NCAA Div II or even Div III but I would expect most events woud win th...

Zane is continuing to improve which is great news but what I want to know is what do they feed them in Jersey? Kelly Sotherton and quite a few other marquee athletes have come from this tiny Island. Maybe a mid 19 throw this year 20m plus next year - then we have a genuine decent shot putter on the ...

Anyone notice Brett Morse on BGT - those Welshies can hold a note eh!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTmhDyxBybU

JOhn trower- mike meneil are the obvious ones that come to mind. Neil black and ericsonn are good guys who people can work with - Neil has been aorudn throgh many adminstratiosn and as a bright guy will know where the mistakes were and willt ry nt and repeat them. can these guys please get jt and mi...

The point is though disckobolus - all things are not equal and if that was the case - how owuld you explain Greg making 10m in a year on Nick this year and hwy hasnt nick made a 10m improvement...yet It doesnt work like that. Individuals develop at different rates for exampe look at the U15 all time...

Kai is good - heis very verygood - but it doenst really matter how long he has been throwing as he looks quite proficeint to me when i saw him the other day Gill threw 24m t this age and 20.80 with th e6 then 22.80 ish which is awesome. I t will be intersting to seehow far he throws the 7 over the n...

Sam - I was referring more to the coaches who athletes are being directed to for so called performance coaching and not the original coaches. My suggestion and my conclusions are born out of rather crassly I admit - looking at the results. I liked Esa but when he took over we had some decent thrower...

I was being devils advocat - BTW IF you look at the U17 and U20 all time top 5 all but one is in circulation at the moment and only Myercough has made the top 10 seniors so far. We need to be bridgin the gap beteeen top juniors to to seniors - but it is encuragin that some of our best ever juniros a...

Did anyone see that we had an 18.20m shot putter in the women's event recently - on further examnation I thin k it was an U17 discus throw. t has been correccted now but sometimes there are a few errors. I cannt spea for jeremy but he may have been making a point that this was not a senior performan...

I think it just goes to prove that in some events they have been barking up the worng tree with the worng people leadng the event jimbo - I dont want to sound like a records but John trower is one of the world best javelin coaches adn when ever I go overseas they assume he retired and want to know w...

It is good to see that the four young throwers who have gone to the US for university have all thrown PB's already and sitting high up on thier ranking lists. In the case of our tWO javelin throwers - i thiNK THESE are theit fiirst PB's for over a year. It shows we have got talent in this country We...

Both of the Brownlies are awesoem runners - the win the triathlon as they are 2 minutes faster than the rest of the field!

For the 2012 season, minimum NFL base salaries are ... 1) Rookie - $390,000 2) 1 year - $465,000 3) 2 year - $540,000 4) 3 year - $615,000 5) 4-6 year - $700,000 6) 7-9 year - $825,000 7) 10+ year - $925,000 I am sure he will be on more than that - but not a bad starting salary for your first job at...

WE have been competing in these relays for years and the Mt Sacs have beent he favourite because as far back as dale thompson's days athltes have gone to California for WWT and competition. Mt Sac is probably a better standard. A few years back Andy Norman out on a sheffield relays - maybe because h...