Changes in the GAA - super thread

Fann Linn wrote: »

threeball wrote: »

There's lads higher up than me asking those questions already so no point in me asking but good to know I touched a nerve. Ye don't like being confronted with the truth.

Nope. Just making the point that some county boards can't be trusted. Others, like Dublin, invest wisely.

Hard to know how well it's invested there's so much of it sloshing around in the Dublin coffers. Be hard to make a bollox of it with €17m to play around with.

Fann Linn wrote: »

Nope. Just making the point that some county boards can't be trusted. Others, like Dublin, invest wisely.

Invest all our (GAA) money wisely
That's the biggest joke of all.
There are clubs in Dublin with better facilities than most counties have.

A strike will eventually happen if as I predict Dublin go onto do 10 in a row and more. Especially as we'll have a super compatible and exciting hurling championship not dominated by Dublin. They might have won the hurling once or twice by then but not enough to ruin it. Counties will eventually say enough is enough. I think they'll just hand Dublin byes at the beginning and forfeit the match but eventually counties will come together and say you can have Sam Dublin but the rest of us will play a different competition and only counties are invited.

A civil war is coming and it will be popcorn worthy. I wish we could just skip dublin's next 5 or 6 sams and get it going already.

We all know thats not going to happen.

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Gotta say - love how the Dublin apologists are spinning away and deflecting and distracting like mad on this thread

Keep at it lads. Giving us all a welcome laugh

Gotta say - love how the Dublin haters are getting more desperate with their stupid suggestions.

Keep at it lads . Giving us all a welcome laugh :rolleyes:

How sad is that ? Sorry teacher :rolleyes:

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

Gotta say - love how the Dublin apologists are spinning away and deflecting and distracting like mad on this thread

Keep at it lads. Giving us all a welcome laugh

Not deflection just reality.
Of the options suggested by people on here and probably yourself, do you truly believe,
A)Dublin GAA will be split into 2/4/6/8.
B)Fans will boycott games.
C)Inter county players will go on strike rather than play Dublin.

kilns wrote: »

Do you think this will go on forever or will this Dublin team decline as per my post yesterday and it will become again a 4 or 5 horse race like it always was? Why was there never any outcry that realistically even when it was at its most competitive only 4 or 5 teams would ever have a chance every year. Nothing has changed for the likes of Louth. Leitrim, Sligo, Antrim in the last 50 years, they are still cannon fodder, where is the outcry on this? Or are some people just selfishly looking out for their county alone (those teams that have come close - i.e. Mayo) and that is why their anger is directed at Dublin and not at the system overall. How would they suggest they level the playing field between the likes of Mayo and Leitrim or Kerry and Waterford etc etc

I've said years ago counties should be amalgamated to make them relevant. Leitrim and Sligo, Westmeath and Longford, Offaly and Laois, only a small sample of counties who do need to join together to really put in a challenge but that still doesn't address the funding issue of Dublin.

Before the funding Dublin were a top county capable of challenging in any year but not unbeatable. The funding has taken Dublin to a different level due to the conditioning of players. A few counties can live with Dublin for 50 mins but they can't live with the conditioning or the replacements that Dublin have over 70-75 mins. Even Cork stuck with ye but conditioning got them in the end.

Deny it all ye want but Dublin are nowhere until the U20 grade and then at the age conditioning makes a real difference they just explode from nowhere. Dublin have plenty of average footballers with supreme conditioning. Johnny Cooper, Eoin Murchan, Philly Mc, MDMA are run of the mill players that have their equal or better in many other counties but they're as well conditioned as an Aussie rules player and thats mostly down to money. Other counties can't live with that. Dublin don't need to add wonderkids every year, just one every 3yrs to add quality to the athletes that surround them.

threeball wrote: »

I've said years ago counties should be amalgamated to make them relevant. Leitrim and Sligo, Westmeath and Longford, Offaly and Laois, only a small sample of counties who do need to join together to really put in a challenge but that still doesn't address the funding issue of Dublin.

Before the funding Dublin were a top county capable of challenging in any year but not unbeatable. The funding has taken Dublin to a different level due to the conditioning of players. A few counties can live with Dublin for 50 mins but they can't live with the conditioning or the replacements that Dublin have over 70-75 mins. Even Cork stuck with ye but conditioning got them in the end.

Deny it all ye want but Dublin are nowhere until the U20 grade and then at the age conditioning makes a real difference they just explode from nowhere. Dublin have plenty of average footballers with supreme conditioning. Johnny Cooper, Eoin Murchan, Philly Mc, MDMA are run of the mill players that have their equal or better in many other counties but they're as well conditioned as an Aussie rules player and thats mostly down to money. Other counties can't live with that. Dublin don't need to add wonderkids every year, just one every 3yrs to add quality to the athletes that surround them.

amalgamting counties isnt the answer. Tiered competition makes far more sense.
Weaker/smaller counties amalgamating wont be challenging all too often at top end of competition and these counties would do far better in a competition where they play more sides of their level and have realistic chance to win.

threeball wrote: »

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Deny it all ye want but Dublin are nowhere until the U20 grade and then at the age conditioning makes a real difference they just explode from nowhere. Dublin have plenty of average footballers with supreme conditioning. Johnny Cooper, Eoin Murchan, Philly Mc, MDMA are run of the mill players that have their equal or better in many other counties but they're as well conditioned as an Aussie rules player and thats mostly down to money. Other counties can't live with that. Dublin don't need to add wonderkids every year, just one every 3yrs to add quality to the athletes that surround them.

What do you think Dublin are doing with their money for the conditioning of the players that the likes of Cork, Kerry, Donegal and Tyrone aren't?