The Dominance of Dublin GAA *Mod warning post#1*

odyssey06

Gachla wrote: »

How can you explain Dublin ladies, Dublin underage and Dublin clubs along with men's football and hurling all improving at the same time? Some coming from nowhere?

I don't think it needs much explanation. Given the popularity of GAA in Dublin, it was only a matter of time, with a County board and a proper plan, their potential translated to success on the field. Often in sports, it can take failure to spur success in sleeping giants. I don't think Germany would have destroyed Brazil in 2014 world cup, had German FA not reacted to Germany's embarrassing defeats to Croatia in 1998, England in 2001 and being outclassed by Brazil in 2002 world cup final.
Based on registered players, there is nothing unusual about Dublin's success, all that is unusual is that it was so long in coming. The senior football team is over-achieving at the moment, thanks to a combination of the right manager and a golden generation (as Kerry and Kilkenny have in previous eras). But they should be winning 3-5 titles per decade unless they have the misfortune to come up against era defining teams like Micko's Kerry, Boylan's Meath or another storm from Ulster. This is their era.

MayoAreMagic

odyssey06 wrote: »

Explain to me how if professional was the key part of that sentence why are our results not identical regardless of what professional coach is holding the position?
Was Billy Walsh replaced by a volunteer?

A very good coach can make all the difference. Like Jim Gavin.

Well I would say professional coach was the key phrase, in the sense that it was the loss of a paid expert in the field that made the difference. Therefore, obviously his contribution was telling. There was no mention of losing a volunteer making a telling difference. Thereby we can dismiss outright this idea that the professional coaches are not improving quality and that volunteers are what make the difference.

Jim gavin is a good manager no doubt. I dont think he is really involved in coaching skills though. Id imagine those things are a requisite before you get near jim gavin. Not exactly the same. However, gavin is, it is reasonable to assume, a professional coach. There is debate about his payment per se, but there is definitely benefit in kind of some description. He isnt a volunteer anyway...

Gachla

odyssey06 wrote: »

I don't think it needs much explanation. Given the popularity of GAA in Dublin, it was only a matter of time, with a County board and a proper plan, their potential translated to success on the field. Often in sports, it can take failure to spur success in sleeping giants. I don't think Germany would have destroyed Brazil in 2014 world cup, had German FA not reacted to Germany's embarrassing defeats to Croatia in 1998, England in 2001 and being outclassed by Brazil in 2002 world cup final.
Based on registered players, there is nothing unusual about Dublin's success, all that is unusual is that it was so long in coming. The senior football team is over-achieving at the moment, thanks to a combination of the right manager and a golden generation (as Kerry and Kilkenny have in previous eras). But they should be winning 3-5 titles per decade unless they have the misfortune to come up against a team like Micko's Kerry, Boylan's Meath or another storm from Ulster.

But Dublin ladies never won an All Ireland prior to this sudden upsurge in fortunes. Dublin never won an under 20/21 All Ireland. No Dublin club had ever won a hurling All Ireland. Dublin hurlers never won anything with their own players. The list goes on. How does that fit into your theory? They weren't sleeping giants in any of these. Quite opposite to what you said, it's very, very unusual.

Martina1991

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Mayo and Tyrone do not have the issues with Greenfield sites that Dublin have also I feel there is misconception of how long it takes to travel in Dublin.

17k is nothing in the country but it could take 2/2.30 hours to travel from the Northside to Tallaght /UCD for example

And how long do you think it takes to travel from Dublin to Bekan or Castlebar a few times a week?

Like a lot of counties, players live and work in Dublin and have to travel back for training.

I think Donegal were even having Michael Murphy fly to Donegal via helicopter in 2012 for training.

But yeah, Tallaght to UCD is a bitch of a commute.

odyssey06

Gachla wrote: »

But Dublin ladies never won an All Ireland prior to this sudden upsurge in fortunes. Dublin never won an under 20/21 All Ireland. No Dublin club had ever won a hurling All Ireland. Dublin hurlers never won anything with their own players. The list goes on. How does that fit into your theory? They weren't sleeping giants in any of these. Quite opposite to what you said, it's very, very unusual.

None of those results are unusual based on number of registered players.

Are counties to be set in stone as they were in 1999?

Gachla

odyssey06 wrote: »

None of those results are unusual based on number of registered players.

Are counties to be set in stone as they were in 1999?

It's always very unusual when teams come from nowhere to win multiple All Ireland's. Do you think it had anything to do with the huge number of professional coaches who began their employment with Dublin GAA at around the same time as the sudden improvement across so many different areas of Gaelic Games?

odyssey06

Gachla wrote: »

It's always very unusual when teams come from nowhere to win multiple All Ireland's. Do you think it had anything to do with the huge number of professional coaches who began their employment with Dublin GAA at around the same time as the sudden improvement across so many different areas of Gaelic Games?

It was a catalyst ... the oil in the engine so to speak but it was not the engine itself.
Dublin should be competing and winning titles based on registered players and popularity of the sports.

Gachla

odyssey06 wrote: »

It was a catalyst ... the oil in the engine so to speak but it was not the engine itself.
Dublin should be competing and winning titles based on registered players and popularity of the sports.

40 million spent on coaches since 2005 is quite expensive oil, I think you'd be more likely to buy the engine for that much. Even Dublin County Board members and employees of Dublin County Board admit the huge effect the coaches have had, it's not in their interest to state this so their word can't really be doubted. I know it's not in the interests of Dublin supporters to admit this either but sometimes you just have to face up to the facts.

gaffer91

Deleted User wrote: »

All this talk about Dublin... while Kilkenny play their 15th All Ireland final since 2000. Funny world

odyssey06 wrote: »

The senior football team is over-achieving at the moment, thanks to a combination of the right manager and a golden generation (as Kerry and Kilkenny have in previous eras). .

After 93 pages on this thread and 144 on the previous thread, it's so wearying that people come on to just the same tired tripe that has been dealt with dozens of times already.

Kilkenny are completely different from Dublin. This is obvious from even a cursory glance. The unfair advantages Dublin have would still need to be dealt with even if they're weren't winning.

This isn't a golden generation, it's a never ending supply of top class footballers, developed by years of financial doping. There are other unfair advantages of course, the money isn't the only issue.

For all the people claiming "this will end soon"- what do you think about the Leinster championship? It's completely dead as a competition. I know Dubs will come on now and claim it's because other county boards don't have their act together, but every other non-Dub in Leinster being a clown doesn't hold up. There is something more sinister afoot here- it's all the unfair advantages Dublin have making than completely dominant. The All Ireland is heading the same way.

Dublin will have to be split as even rectifying the funding now will not be able to undo the harm done by the GAA over the last 15 years.

odyssey06

gaffer91 wrote: »

Dublin will have to be split as even rectifying the funding now will not be able to undo the harm done by the GAA over the last 15 years.

Dublin will never be split unless Dublin wants to be split so more guys can play senior inter county.. and if that happens it will only be a matter of time before theres an all Dublin Leinster final.
And then an All Ireland final with two Dublin teams...
So be careful what you wish for.

Kerry have 37 titles and no one says split them up. But Dublin start beating Kerry and its their turn to be top dogs and some people cant bear it.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

I really don't see how splitting Dublin would work. From what I can see, most Dubs wouldn't support a North Dublin team or a Fingal team or whatever it might be. It would have to be done from underage and even then it would be hard.

threeball

odyssey06 wrote: »

Gachla wrote: »

How can you explain Dublin ladies, Dublin underage and Dublin clubs along with men's football and hurling all improving at the same time? Some coming from nowhere?

I don't think it needs much explanation. Given the popularity of GAA in Dublin, it was only a matter of time, with a County board and a proper plan, their potential translated to success on the field. Often in sports, it can take failure to spur success in sleeping giants. I don't think Germany would have destroyed Brazil in 2014 world cup, had German FA not reacted to Germany's embarrassing defeats to Croatia in 1998, England in 2001 and being outclassed by Brazil in 2002 world cup final.
Based on registered players, there is nothing unusual about Dublin's success, all that is unusual is that it was so long in coming. The senior football team is over-achieving at the moment, thanks to a combination of the right manager and a golden generation (as Kerry and Kilkenny have in previous eras). But they should be winning 3-5 titles per decade unless they have the misfortune to come up against era defining teams like Micko's Kerry, Boylan's Meath or another storm from Ulster. This is their era.

You keep going on about the plan. The plan without money is useless. I've a plan to build 800 apartments in Dublin and make a killing. All I need is someone to put up 20 million to make it happen.

Luckily for Dublin they have a willing benefactor.

gaffer91

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

I really don't see how splitting Dublin would work. From what I can see, most Dubs wouldn't support a North Dublin team or a Fingal team or whatever it might be. It would have to be done from underage and even then it would be hard.

The rivalry that Dubs have between different parts of the city would translate well into inter-county football.

Regardless, pretty soon most non-Dubs won't be supporting their inter-county teams either because all games will just be rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic as a prelude to getting walloped by the financially doped juggernaut (likely at their home ground). Can't see public interest in that maintaining for very long.

The financial doping isn't the only issue- population is also a very big factor as well. Splitting Dublin would help deal with both these problems.

Bridge93

Splitting Dublin up, or amalgamation of others for that matter, is as much of a death knell for inter county Gaelic games as anything else. People simply will not buy into it in any guise.

gaffer91

Bridge93 wrote: »

Splitting Dublin up, or amalgamation of others for that matter, is as much of a death knell for inter county Gaelic games as anything else. People simply will not buy into it in any guise.

That's not true. The actual death knell for inter-county Gaelic games (or football at least) is endless Dublin dominance built on a platform of multiple unfair advantages. It has happened in Leinster and we're in the midst of it for the All Ireland.

Bridge93

gaffer91 wrote: »

That's not true. The actual death knell for inter-county Gaelic games (or football at least) is endless Dublin dominance built on a platform of multiple unfair advantages. It has happened in Leinster and we're in the midst of it for the All Ireland.

If what’s happening at the minute persists ( I have my doubts whether it will) I agree it’ll kill the game and has to be fixed. But if you think dividing or amalgamating teams is going to solve it you’re kidding yourself.

threeball

Bridge93 wrote: »

Splitting Dublin up, or amalgamation of others for that matter, is as much of a death knell for inter county Gaelic games as anything else. People simply will not buy into it in any guise.

They 100% will. It already happens in club where local identity is far more profound. Not a chance people won't show up to support even a modestly successful representative team.

Bridge93

Regardless, splitting Dublin because of population is stupid. Did someone not show Dublin’s playing numbers not to be outrageously out of line? Per capita the sports hold a fraction of the popularity they do in other counties. Presumably the hurlers are split too?
We never hear complaints over India competing in cricket with countries over 300 times smaller than them. India before anyone asks also hoover up the majority of the funds too. The BCCI as good as run the International Cricket Council. International hockey populations the same. Some soccer nations and rugby ones dwarf others in both population and funding. Yet GAA is the only one I hear arguments to split teams up on population grounds.

So if Dublin is split in 4, is cork split into 2? Galway into 2? Why not keep splitting counties up until Leitrims population can fairly be deemed equal?


Funding is an argument that can and should be sorted. Even the home advantage is easy to solve at HQ.

gaffer91

Bridge93 wrote: »

If what’s happening at the minute persists ( I have my doubts whether it will) I agree it’ll kill the game and has to be fixed. But if you think dividing or amalgamating teams is going to solve it you’re kidding yourself.

Don't have any doubts that it will persist my friend- just look at what happened in Leinster.

Splitting Dublin four ways would actually go quite a way to rectifying the current unfair imbalances.

ArielAtom

threeball wrote: »

They 100% will. It already happens in club where local identity is far more profound. Not a chance people won't show up to support even a modestly successful representative team.

I wouldn’t.

Bridge93

gaffer91 wrote: »

Don't have any doubts that it will persist my friend- just look at what happened in Leinster.

Splitting Dublin four ways would actually go quite a way to rectifying the current unfair imbalances.

Where are these four teams going to play? Outside Parnell do the other three get funding to build fit for purpose grounds? Or are they forced to share Parnell Park? Will they end up staying in Croke Park? That’s 3 Dublin teams who will never ever get a home game. Is that not a complaint others have now?

gaffer91

ArielAtom wrote: »

I wouldn’t.

Well if one individual on an internet forum says they wouldn't that's the end of the matter. :rolleyes: I thought you were retiring from this thread anyway?

Bridge93 wrote: »

Where are these four teams going to play? Outside Parnell do the other three get funding to build fit for purpose grounds? Or are they forced to share Parnell Park? Will they end up staying in Croke Park? That’s 3 Dublin teams who will never ever get a home game. Is that not a complaint others have now?

Probably could share stadiums for league games I'm sure. Anyway, no point in getting bogged down in the nitty-gritty; the most important thing is to make the split happen and then everything else will fall into place. I wouldn't fret too much about any hypothetical problems- the GAA has proven themselves very adept in recent years as rustling up vast amounts of money to help Dublin.

Bridge93

gaffer91 wrote: »

Well if one individual on an internet forum says they wouldn't that's the end of the matter. :rolleyes: I thought you were retiring from this thread anyway?



Probably could share stadiums for league games I'm sure. Anyway, no point in getting bogged down in the nitty-gritty; the most important thing is to make the split happen and then everything else will fall into place. I wouldn't fret too much about any hypothetical problems- the GAA has proven themselves very adept in recent years as rustling up vast amounts of money to help Dublin.

The ‘nitty gritty’ is exactly what should hold anything up. Look at brexit and the hassle little details people didn’t consider have created to the whole process. You can’t just blindly walk down some romantic road and say ‘ah sure it’ll be grand’

ArielAtom

gaffer91 wrote: »

Well if one individual on an internet forum says they wouldn't that's the end of the matter. :rolleyes: I thought you were retiring from this thread anyway?



Probably could share stadiums for league games I'm sure. Anyway, no point in getting bogged down in the nitty-gritty; the most important thing is to make the split happen and then everything else will fall into place. I wouldn't fret too much about any hypothetical problems- the GAA has proven themselves very adept in recent years as rustling up vast amounts of money to help Dublin.

I suppose if one individual on the internet says they will it’s true to. I had to respond to that post. Utter garbage. I’ll be gone again until someone texts me that there is another cracker of a post from one of the usual suspects.

A lot of Dublin’s success is also down to other counties going backwards. Which is nothing to do with Dublin

gaffer91

Bridge93 wrote: »

The ‘nitty gritty’ is exactly what should hold anything up. Look at brexit and the hassle little details people didn’t consider have created to the whole process. You can’t just blindly walk down some romantic road and say ‘ah sure it’ll be grand’

It'll be better than the status quo, for sure. The status quo isn't "grand".

Teams could share a stadium for league games. They could train at different places. The problems you're mentioning are easily surmountable.

ArielAtom wrote: »

I suppose if one individual on the internet says they will it’s true to. I had to respond to that post. Utter garbage. I’ll be gone again until someone texts me that there is another cracker of a post from one of the usual suspects.

The only garbage posted has been by yourself and your acolytes. Very repetitive stuff too I might add, I don't know where you get the energy to just keep churning out the same debunked nonsense over and over.

The choice is: Do we want to allow Dublin and their financially doped success to destroy the inter-county game or do we want to try and save our sport? You want the former, I want the latter.

gormdubhgorm

threeball wrote: »

So now you're claiming the spend on inter county in Dublin is higher because of green space costs for kids and and buildings you've never had to pay for as it was given by Croke park or DCU. The mind boggles

No I am saying in general in Dublin there are a lack of green field sites Dublin at the lower levels for kids just to play.
Particulary in the city centre.
It is understandable you are only thinking of the higher levels ,I am thinking in the more general sense.
That problem does not arise in rural areas.
What I am saying to you is there are problems in Dublin that many rural people would not appreciate.

Bridge93

gaffer91 wrote: »

It'll be better than the status quo, for sure. The status quo isn't "grand".

Teams could share a stadium for league games. They could train at different places. The problems you're mentioning are easily surmountable.

Right so your solution to solve inequality is to reverse the inequality. Sounds logical. Your argument can be whittled down to just weaken Dublin, everything else doesn’t matter and how it’s done doesn’t matter. Even if it continues to kill the game as it’s dying now

Bridge93

Interestingly I work with a guy on the extended mayo panel, one in the Roscommon XV and one in the Cavan XV. Each of them has said they have no interest at all in beating Fingal or Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown or whatever. They want to beat Dublin. Different mindset I suppose when it’s highly ambitious and high achieving athletes rather than people moaning down their keyboard

threeball

ArielAtom wrote: »

threeball wrote: »

They 100% will. It already happens in club where local identity is far more profound. Not a chance people won't show up to support even a modestly successful representative team.

I wouldn’t.

You'll be in a small minority then