Dublin GAA Discussion Thread MOD WARNING POST #2944

DoctaDee

Past30Now wrote: »

Great weekend of football. Good wins for Plunketts and Vincents in the Senior Football Championship. First win in a long time for Garda against Lucan Sarsfields in the Intermediate B Championship. Great win for Castleknock against Fingallians in the Intermediate Championship Final.

Massive performance from our lads. Great credit in particular to our full back line. Our two corner backs are both 20 years of age and had fantastic games, keeping their forwards quiet throughout. Our full back, 21, man marked Paul Flynn and while he conceded a couple of scores, he kept their most dangerous man relatively quiet. Feel for Fingallians, third losing final in a row. It must be sickening for them.

Brilliant day for Castleknock, pretty good evening to follow it!

Congrats to all in Castleknock, great success story with a Junior and Inter Champ now in the space of 3 years. The future is bright, plenty of young talent in the current team and lots of representation in the county underage set up means that they could well leave a mark in the SFC in the coming years. The best Inter team this year without a doubt and achieved without the marquee man and the Corcorans for most of the year.

The game itself never looked like going anywhere other than Castleknocks way, once they they got back into it after Flynns early goal, even tho Fins got it back to a point with 10 mins or so to go they never really threatened after that. I thought Hannigan, Kinneavy and Neville were immense at the back, the pace of Hannigan is excellent - Tom Quinn is as good a CB out there with his reading of the game. I thought Shane Boland ran the show, he must have covered every blade, huge work rate, Dessie Carlos had a big influence too. Feel sorry for Fins as you say it's their 3rd year in a row falling at the final hurdle. Last year Davy Byrne got the better of a fully fit Flynn for Olafs win, this year it was evident that PF was operating at 75%, no change of pace and not as dynamic as we're used to. Hopefully the break will allow him get the ankle/groin looked at and come back rested and fully fit in the new year. Well done again

Oasis_Dublin

Was it Davy Byrne who had him last year? I thought it was Colin Doyle.

DoctaDee

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Was it Davy Byrne who had him last year? I thought it was Colin Doyle.

Yeah Oasis yer dead right it was Doyle ... prematch the talk was of Byrne/Flynn matchup ..

Past30Now

DoctaDee wrote: »

Yeah Oasis yer dead right it was Doyle ... prematch the talk was of Byrne/Flynn matchup ..

Hate to see you being corrected twice in the one page, but Eoin O'Broin started at cornerback instead of Derek Kinneavy. Kinneavy was carrying an injury, but almost replaced Hannigan after the black card.

DoctaDee

Past30Now wrote: »

Hate to see you being corrected twice in the one page, but Eoin O'Broin started at cornerback instead of Derek Kinneavy. Kinneavy was carrying an injury, but almost replaced Hannigan after the black card.

LOL.. get them in while you can ! .. I wouldn't know them to see tbh, just know the general line up from the few times I've seen them play ..I'd know Graham Hannigan alright as herself is related that side of the family .. that's 2 stiff jabs youse have given me .. but I'm still standing !!

emmetlego

Some achievement by Castleknock, and doing great at both codes. Fair play. Huge catchment area too.

Gael85

Great achievement for Castleknock considering their a relatively new club too.Were they formed around 98/99?

exador

Gael85 wrote: »

Great achievement for Castleknock considering their a relatively new club too.Were they formed around 98/99?

98

Past30Now

emmetlego wrote: »

Some achievement by Castleknock, and doing great at both codes. Fair play. Huge catchment area too.

This was discussed amongst ourselves on Sunday. As a local we don't consider the catchment area as huge, because up to relatively recently, St Brigids had the whole of the area to themselves. Now there are six clubs (Brigids, Castleknock, Peregrines, Erin Go Bragh, Tyrellstown and Westmanstown Gaels) relatively close to one another.

Then you look at Parnell Park, and within five minutes you have any number of huge clubs (Vincents, Parnells, Na Fianna, O'Tooles, Chiarans, Whitehall, Clontarf, Raheny, Scoil) and you begin to appreciate the size of our catchment area.

emmetlego

Past30Now wrote: »

This was discussed amongst ourselves on Sunday. As a local we don't consider the catchment area as huge, because up to relatively recently, St Brigids had the whole of the area to themselves. Now there are six clubs (Brigids, Castleknock, Peregrines, Erin Go Bragh, Tyrellstown and Westmanstown Gaels) relatively close to one another.

Then you look at Parnell Park, and within five minutes you have any number of huge clubs (Vincents, Parnells, Na Fianna, O'Tooles, Chiarans, Whitehall, Clontarf, Raheny, Scoil) and you begin to appreciate the size of our catchment area.

And you compare the age profile of those areas, mostly older people while Castleknock would be youngish families, just perfect for Castleknock and fair play to them capitalising on it.

Hammer Archer

My own club played Castleknock in the Leinster JFC a few years back and they were very impressive in winning (albeit we were without a fair few of our first team). Both teams' colours were blue and yellow so it was decided to play in Meath and Dublin jerseys.

I know sweet FA about the Dublin IFC but I couldn't see them staying Intermediate for long. If my club had a decent management team we may have gotten a rematch this season in the Leinster IFC.

DoctaDee

Parnells catchment area also extends to Laois, Wexford, Mayo and up to Armagh:D

LeoB

thinkstoomuch1 wrote: »

In truth Ye have got one hell of a manager,watched him train teams last ten years,all levels man is a genuis.

He has had huge success with ucc and developed successful feshers teams on to greater things.
Reason why harnedy got on the cork team
Has a real strength working with young lads,making them top top hurlers.He gets everyone to believe in themselves.As a die hard cork man,dublin hurling is now my second team.

This is crucial in my opinion. Iv heard it said by different lads that we over coach players in Dublin and having watched a good few games this year Im inclined to agree.

Some coachs are fixated with tactics from a young age instead of developing to play more openly more often and I have felt this has held players back.

Orizio wrote: »

Unless there are some hidden diamonds out there, Cunningham doesn't have the talent to win an AI.

The talent is there ok but again it comes back to picking players with natural ability and developing that ability instead of picking big men who are robatic in the way they play.

It would be great if he did have an input with some development squads but I dont know how coachs/managers who have worked with these squads will welcome him in. This could be a problem but its where I feel we would benefit most. Give the young lads a self belief and I think we could well get to an All-Ireland final.

CurryFlavoured

Happy for James McCarthy winning an all star. Not the most spectacular year but he's been unlucky other years. Funnily enough he might have played better last season but competition at HB was much stiffer so he couldn't fit into the team.

Pierce_1991

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

Happy for James McCarthy winning an all star. Not the most spectacular year but he's been unlucky other years. Funnily enough he might have played better last season but competition at HB was much stiffer so he couldn't fit into the team.

I was amazed he missed out last year, think he's been one of the more under appreciated players of the last couple of years. Good to see him get the nod.

charlie14

CurryFlavoured wrote: »

Happy for James McCarthy winning an all star. Not the most spectacular year but he's been unlucky other years. Funnily enough he might have played better last season but competition at HB was much stiffer so he couldn't fit into the team.

I wouldn`t begrudge him the All Star, but imo, lucky to get the nod over Donegal`s Mc Glynn

corny

Tight game this evening. Crokes had the more hurling in them but really the way game went in the second half they should have been beaten.

Sutcliffes contribution was eye catching but for what its worth the Judes full back (and the men outside him really) had a smashing game.

Ref was atrocious. Apparently you have to stand 20 metres away from the free taker now yet at throw in, 10 bodies are allowed within a couple of metres of the ref. Awfully inconsistent.

passremarkable

is final been televised tonight? or any where we able to view it online?

emmetlego

Well done Vincents, put a few bob on them to win the all ireland.

Ed Winchester

Only a point in it in the end. As a Plunketts man, i'm gutted. Really thought it was our year. 3 county final defeats now for these lads.

ProudDUB

Hard luck Ed. It must be gutting for you. Given all the scalps ye have racked up, I really thought this was your year too. The game was there for the taking too, seeing as Vincents main men had fairly quiet nights, by their standards.

Ed Winchester

ProudDUB wrote: »

Hard luck Ed. It must be gutting for you.

Think thats the opportunity missed now, although i thought that in the past too. It was a great achievement to get this far. Gutted for the Brogans and Nesty. They deserve one.

Very hard to follow a game through updates on the web! Me nerves!!

Slattsy

Kept Connolly to a point and still lost. Just shows how good a team Vinnie's have.

Have too feel for Plunketts, i know a few of those boys. 3 county finals in the last few years, hard to take.

Always_Running

I seem this posted elsewhere.

Dublin sfc top scorers

Bernard Brogan 4-17
Mossy Quinn 4-13

What total did the likes of Connolly,Rock etc score in this years county championship?

emmetlego

Beating Crokes and Chelsea Kickhams in the process, only to fall to Vins, who played Eamon Fennell even though he was in Liverpool last weekend on the rip! Surprised he wasn't dropped. Feel very sorry for Olly Ps, hard to take. Chin up lads, great game, my weuns loved it too.

Kh1993

Anyone get the official attendance tonight? Walked in at 7.45 and was shocked, savage crowd, haven't seen the golf course end packed in a long long time.

Decent game, better team won in the end, but the big finish kept all us neutrals happy. Thought Vins half forward (no. 12 I think) had a belter of a game, Gill was super too.

Plunketts fought hard but I think they just isolated the inside men too much, even in the last 5 they were firing balls into Bernard when he had 3 or 4 defenders there.

emmetlego

Gavin Burke I think was 12.

Slattsy

Full house. What's that10k?

emmetlego

12k i heard before, was there for a dub v mayo floodlit game when my boys were weuns and they told me this night, so thats a reliable source!

ProudDUB

emmetlego wrote: »

Beating Crokes and Chelsea Kickhams in the process, only to fall to Vins, who played Eamon Fennell even though he was in Liverpool last weekend on the rip! Surprised he wasn't dropped. Feel very sorry for Olly Ps, hard to take. Chin up lads, great game, my weuns loved it too.

I dare ya to say that to Phily McMahon's face. :P

PP was absolutely jammers. Never seen it like that in ages. It was ridiculously warm as well, seeing as it is nearly November. The atmosphere was strangely flat though.