Dublin GAA Discussion Thread MOD WARNING POST #2944

Squareball

DoctaDee wrote: »

Dean is well on the road to recovery training well and is about 2 weeks behind the others. On a related theme Denis Bastick is by all accounts absolutely flying

Dean came on as a sub for the mun last night so should be good to go.

DoctaDee

TheNap wrote: »

Syls have also lost a lot of country lads from last year . Could be a bad few days for teams who have invested a lot in the last few years ( Parnells knocked out last year )

Was only thinking something similar with Monicas playing AFL4 and never having won a Junior Champ, were beaten 1st round again last week .. some teams and Champs just have no love...

dubliner 2

Cluxton is refusing to play for Parnells.

Surely he can't then play for the county?

Grudaire

dubliner 2 wrote: »

Cluxton is refusing to play for Parnells.

Surely he can't then play for the county?

Oh!?

Why's that?!

dubliner 2

Grudaire wrote: »

Oh!?

Why's that?!

Why is he not playing for Parnells?

Kilmacud beaten by Plunketts tonight. A small shock there

Twiceasnice97

Dublin and limerick played a challenge last night. close at the finish but after about 45mins the dubs were 3 - 15 to 2 - 8 ahead apparently

Saint Sonner

dubliner 2 wrote: »

Why is he not playing for Parnells?

Kilmacud beaten by Plunketts tonight. A small shock there

Might sound like a silly question but is that crokes now out of the championship?

amlinopta

Yes, Crokes are out, there's no back door any more in the Dublin SFC. Only got going in the last few minutes, two point margin flattered them.

Squareball

dubliner 2 wrote: »

Cluxton is refusing to play for Parnells.

Surely he can't then play for the county?

He plays with their intermediate team.

ProudDUB

Plunkett's were up by 11 with just 15 minutes to go and, then they took their foot off the gas & let Crokes back into it. The score line doesn't do them justice. BB gave Rory O'Carroll a terrible time of it.

Slattsy

Plunketts were always a team that on their day could ruffle anyones feather.
Really fancied them a few years ago to go on to great things, but their back line is awful.

ProudDUB

Their back line kept Crokes to 1-5 (or something like that) for the first 45 odd minutes of the game. Plunkett's were up by 3-10 at that stage. Croke's went on a bit of run in the last quarter & made the scoreline look more respectable. Going on that display, they could be a force again this year, if they can keep both of the Brogans healthy and in form. I'd wonder how they'd do against battle hardened teams like Ballymun & Vincents though?

Gael85

dubliner 2 wrote: »

Cluxton is refusing to play for Parnells.

Surely he can't then play for the county?

Cluxton not refusing to play Parnells.
wants to play out field at club level, playing on their intermediate team

DoctaDee

Gael85 wrote: »

Cluxton not refusing to play Parnells.
wants to play out field at club level, playing on their intermediate team

Indeed that's true, played in the HB line when I seen him a couple of weeks ago.. largely anonymous nothing spectacular other than a beautiful point a la Maurice Fitz sideline ball

dubliner 2

Gael85 wrote: »

Cluxton not refusing to play Parnells.
wants to play out field at club level, playing on their intermediate team

Ok. Time to stop beating around the bush. I am amazed that no one in the media has brought this up.

It is a matter of public fact that Cluxton sought a re-grade this year (lists of re-grades sent out to clubs in Jan/Feb), which in itself is somewhat amusing. The idea of one of the best players in the country playing on his club's second team is laughable. But thanks to an anomaly in Dublin where league and championship are in no way connected Cluxton, who of course had his regarding refused, can play for the second team in league games but not in the Intermediate championship. So in essence he IS refusing to play for Parnells as he has not made himself available for Senior championship and he is not entitled to play Inter championship.

Playing outfield is a red herring. He has played outfield in the past and throwing your rattle out of the pram simply because you don't like the manager simply isn't on.

So the question still stands. How can he be selected for Dublin when he is refusing to play Championship for his club?

keane2097

Sure wasn't Eamonn Fennell playing for Dublin despite not having a club for a couple of years?

It's not an ideal situation obviously but if he doesn't want to play with his club for whatever reason he's an amateur, you can't force him to.

glued

keane2097 wrote: »

Sure wasn't Eamonn Fennell playing for Dublin despite not having a club for a couple of years?

It's not an ideal situation obviously but if he doesn't want to play with his club for whatever reason he's an amateur, you can't force him to.

Yeah from 2009-2011.

How was that transfer allowed to go through anyway. Marino and Crumlin are two different sides of the City? What was his reasoning? I know at the time a few people said it was just because Vincent's had won an All Ireland but surely there was more to it than that?

bren2001

glued wrote: »

Yeah from 2009-2011.

How was that transfer allowed to go through anyway. Marino and Crumlin are two different sides of the City? What was his reasoning? I know at the time a few people said it was just because Vincent's had won an All Ireland but surely there was more to it than that?

He moved from O'Tooles to Vinnies did he not? A stones throw from one another.

TheNap

glued wrote: »

Yeah from 2009-2011.

How was that transfer allowed to go through anyway. Marino and Crumlin are two different sides of the City? What was his reasoning? I know at the time a few people said it was just because Vincent's had won an All Ireland but surely there was more to it than that?

It was O'Tooles . He was on the fringes of the Dublin team at the time . The then Dublin manager was a Vincents man .

HooohRaaah

glued wrote: »

Yeah from 2009-2011.

How was that transfer allowed to go through anyway. Marino and Crumlin are two different sides of the City? What was his reasoning? I know at the time a few people said it was just because Vincent's had won an All Ireland but surely there was more to it than that?

He had nothing to do with Crumlin. O'Tooles are in Donaghmeade aren't they? About a 10 min drive to Marion

glued

Sorry lads you're right. My bad.

Lemlin

Slattsy wrote: »

Plunketts were always a team that on their day could ruffle anyones feather.
Really fancied them a few years ago to go on to great things, but their back line is awful.

Did Cavan's sub 'keeper Alan O'Mara start for Plunketts?

Gael85

Lemlin wrote: »

Did Cavan's sub 'keeper Alan O'Mara start for Plunketts?

O'Meara played in goal. Saved a penalty from Paul Mannion.

Lemlin

Gael85 wrote: »

O'Meara played in goal. Saved a penalty from Paul Mannion.

Did he have a good game then? O'Mara could actually play for Dublin.

He was born in Dublin. Parents moved to Bailieboro when he was a nipper.

ProudDUB

dubliner 2 wrote: »

Ok. Time to stop beating around the bush. I am amazed that no one in the media has brought this up.

Honestly think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. The media couldn't care less about the club scene in Dublin, especially at this time of year. When the club champo is getting down to the wire in October and/or it involves the glamour teams, it starts getting some press. Until then, no one really cares.

DoctaDee

Good crowd in Naul for Syls and Maurs. One way traffic at the moment Syls leadinf 1-8 to 0-3

Maurs have tagged on 5 of the last 6 points for some pride but Syls should be home with a few mins left 1-9 to 0-8

DoctaDee

Just hearing that Pats Donabate blew a 6 point ht lead to lose in IFC to Judes. Huge surprise imo and opens the door to any number of teams but I think Fingallians and Castleknock will be licking their chops

Lemlin

DoctaDee wrote: »

Good crowd in Naul for Syls and Maurs. One way traffic at the moment Syls leadinf 1-8 to 0-3

Maurs have tagged on 5 of the last 6 points for some pride but Syls should be home with a few mins left 1-9 to 0-8

Did Eugene Keating feature at all?

DoctaDee

Lemlin wrote: »

Did Eugene Keating feature at all?

Howya Lemlin...nope no Keating. In actual fact was talking with a chap who told me it was the 1st time in a long time that Syls had fielded 15 lads from in and around the local area. They had near enough the same in replacements - I counted 13

Gael85

Lemlin wrote: »

Did he have a good game then? O'Mara could actually play for Dublin.

He was born in Dublin. Parents moved to Bailieboro when he was a nipper.

only saw last 15 minutes. He was kept busy as Crokes came from 7,8 down to narrow it to 2 points.His penalty save made made the difference. Read that somewhere O'Mara from Dublin. Think he played with Trinity Gaels at juvenile level in Dublin