DISILLUSIONED and disappointed are some of the words used by Ireland’s top-tier event riders in these pages this week. They are referring to still – on March 21st – not having any dialogue on when their High Performance manager and team trainers would be announced.

The sad thing I am hearing from these conversations is that owners are fed up with the systems, or lack thereof, in place. That is really bad news for Irish athletes because, just across the sea, there are an array of world class riders from all over the world with comprehensive team support in place.