Davy Nelson: 'You want to try and keep Meath up there at the top table.'
STANDING ON THE DCU St Clare’s sidelines, with his pen and paper in hand, Davy Nelson finally got to experience what it was like to manage a ladies football team.
It will be justification for the direction he is giving his players and new coaching set-up. Coming from a man who directs plays in big theatres, managing his players on and off the field will be key to a seamless transition after Eamonn Murray.“My third time to manage a Meath team and I didn’t know it would be the Ladies if I was to look into a crystal ball a couple of years ago. It’s a great honour for me and my family.
“I have a big interest in theatre so I would read plays for leisure time and I really enjoy that as well as directing,” said Nelson. “I was fortunate enough to get that a couple of years ago with a play called ‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller. We got four standing ovations over four nights. That adrenaline is the very same as getting the win on championship day anywhere.”Nelson made the transition from actor to director in the world of theatre, just like he moved from playing on the field to managing from the sidelines.
If you look at what exactly is coaching, automatically we think of coaching players on the pitch to doing certain things. That’s fine but that’s fairly basic. You look at a lot more than that, coaching the person and helping them in their lives in any way you can, just by even speaking to them, by being a shoulder there if they need it. “That player will be a better one then out on the pitch, by extension.
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