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2020 All Ireland Senior Football Championship MOD NOTE POST #1

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    #1412
    generalgerry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,415 ✭✭✭generalgerry


    The whole Leinster Championship is utterly pointless at this stage. It's just not possible for the other counties to compete against the resources and population advantages of Dublin. Not much point watching the second half, might switch over to something else.


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    #1413
    doc_17
    Registered Users Posts: 6,886 ✭✭✭doc_17


    Uncle Mclovin wrote: »
    Possibly the most annoying commentator across all sports.

    “On the curved part of the arc” was my particular favourite in the first half.


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    #1414
    Rolo2010
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    Dublin results from the championship last year.

    Cork (+13)
    Roscommon (+18)
    Tyrone (+6)

    The last game was a glorified challenge match.

    They beat Mayo by 10 in the SF.


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    #1415
    Allie Powerful Nanny
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    Dublin could field their minors and end up in the semis.


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    #1416
    ShamoBuc
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    Awesome first half by Dublin.
    Because it's Mearh, I fully expect Dublin to keep the foot on the throttle and make it even more embarrassing.
    It could get very ugly indeed.


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    #1417
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    I'm not buying the total football narrative from Spillane and Whelan.

    Meath have just not bothered turning up. Defeated before they came in the gate.


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    #1418
    Coybig_
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    It's so anti-competitive that it's hard to see how Dublin supporters could derive any enjoyment from these games.

    The best games are the closest games, and Dublin are lucky to have a closely fought game every 2 years.


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    #1419
    Hammer Archer
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 11,399 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hammer Archer


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Dublin could field their minors and end up in the semis.
    Meath minors beat Dublin by 11 last month so.....


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    #1420
    BonnieSituation
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    C__MC wrote: »
    Even jack mc McCaffrey got bored of this

    Is that what he told you?


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    #1421
    padd b1975
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    Didn't think it could get much worse than last year for Meath but it has.


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    #1422
    robbiezero
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    At least we got 2 decent hurling games in the afternoon.


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    #1423
    castletownman
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Dublin could field their minors and end up in the semis.

    Technically not because under-17's aren't allowed play adult :D


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    #1424
    STB.
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Game long over already, pathetic. Dublin fans happy, but not great for Leinster football.


    Mayo fans not happy no ?



    Because that's the level you need to play at to win All Irelands.


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    #1425
    ChikiChiki
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,950 ✭✭✭ChikiChiki


    Hammer Archer wrote: »
    Dublin have lost 2 championship games in 10 years.

    Thats not the point. This points difference at half time is absolutely atrocious.

    No fight in the jersey. As a Kildare man I see some similarities in the mentality of both counties.


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    #1426
    threeball
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    Dublin would beat a team of the rest of Ireland in this mood.

    Thats not true and never will be.


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    #1427
    FintanMcluskey
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    Coybig_ wrote: »
    Meath were a division 1 team this year.

    Dublin also beat Westmeath, (a division 2 team) by 11, and they beat another Division 2 team in Laois, by 22 points.

    Last year they beat Mayo by 10 in the Semi Final who were League Champions. They beat Roscommon who were Connacht Champions by 18!

    This beating isn't exclusive to Meath. This is how far clear Dublin are of everybody else, and how far clear they have been for close to a decade with no signs of it stopping.

    A result such as this will cause people to question the fairness of the whole thing again, but the usual suspects will shortly be along to tell us that it's everybody elses fault for not being as good as Dublin, or that it goes in waves - although no acceptance that Dublins is the longest and most devastating we have ever seen with 0 signs of stopping.

    It won’t stop anytime soon

    Mayo in 17 was the last competitive match


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    #1428
    ShamoBuc
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    Rolo2010 wrote: »
    Dublin results from the championship last year.

    Cork (+13)
    Roscommon (+18)
    Tyrone (+6)

    The last game was a glorified challenge match.

    They beat Mayo by 10 in the SF.

    I remember Cork had a right rattle off them.
    Scored more in that game than any other county v Dublin that year I think.
    But in the last 7 or 8 mins conceeded around 3-2.
    They were totally out of gas and Dublin were still full of running.


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    #1429
    Fann Linn
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    generalgerry wrote: »
    The whole Leinster Championship is utterly pointless at this stage. It's just not possible for the other counties to compete against the resources and population advantages of Dublin. Not much point watching the second half, might switch over to something else.

    Just for balance Kerry have won 15 of the last 20 years of Munster finals, coincidentally I think this Dublin win will match Kerry's number of cumulative wins also.


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    #1430
    tayto lover
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    threeball wrote: »
    Thats not true and never will be.

    I think they could do that.


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    #1431
    C__MC
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    BonnieSituation wrote: »
    Is that what he told you?

    Yep said dublin were getting to much money


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    #1432
    Mervyn Skidmore
    Registered Users Posts: 3,088 ✭✭✭Mervyn Skidmore


    Any chance they'll bring back the Railway Cup? Maybe that should become the All-Ireland championship?


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    #1433
    C__MC
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    Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »
    Any chance they'll bring back the Railway Cup? Maybe that should become the All-Ireland championship?

    I'm not even sure a combined pick of Ireland would beat dublin


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    #1434
    FintanMcluskey
    Registered Users Posts: 8,308 ✭✭✭FintanMcluskey


    threeball wrote: »
    Thats not true and never will be.

    I don’t know who I would pick from the rest of the country to replace anyone on that team


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    #1435
    generalgerry
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    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Just for balance Kerry have won 15 of the last 20 years of Munster finals, coincidentally I think this Dublin win will match Kerry's number of cumulative wins also.

    I don't think the margins of victory have been anywhere near as wide though, have they. Particularly in recent years. It doesn't have the same completely pre-determined feel to it that the Leinster Championship does.


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    #1436
    sailing
    Registered Users Posts: 208 ✭✭sailing


    GAA inter county football, a game I have loved since my dad brought me to my very first championship series in 89 has lost it’s attraction. The hierarchy haven’t adapted to a completely unfair system for years now. It’s pretty much a professional game for the top few teams with unlimited money being pumped in. Two of the Dublin panel live in my estate. New Mitsubishi Outlanders with their sponsorship on the side of it. Two very nice people, but it’s very clear from being around them a lot that it’s a profession rather than a hobby for them.

    The Provincial championship needs to go. A two tier All Ireland must be adopted similar to hurling. Funding capped, and we may then see the emergence of a somewhat level playing field. It’s interesting that if Mayo make this years final they will have played no home game in the championship at all. Dublin will have played nearly all of their games in Croke Park. Just no need for it.

    For as long as the current system prevails, nothing will change in the future.


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    #1437
    doc_17
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    FintanMcluskey wrote: »
    It won’t stop anytime soon

    Mayo in 17 was the last competitive match

    Wrong. Kerry last year.


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    #1438
    Chalk McHugh
    Registered Users Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭Chalk McHugh


    generalgerry wrote: »
    I don't think the margins of victory have been anywhere near as wide though, have they. Particularly in recent years. It doesn't have the same completely pre-determined feel to it that the Leinster Championship does.

    Watching Kerry v Tipp, Waterford, Clare and Limerick always has that feel to it (no disrespect to those counties).


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    #1439
    Barlett
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    What muck this is, waste of everybodys time. Massive structural changes are needed.


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    #1440
    Coybig_
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    Fann Linn wrote: »
    Just for balance Kerry have won 15 of the last 20 years of Munster finals, coincidentally I think this Dublin win will match Kerry's number of cumulative wins also.


    Kerry managed to do this in a province with 5 other counties where everybody but Kerry prioritise hurling.

    Dublin have managed to do this in a province with 10 other playing counties where everybody but Wexford prioritise football.


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    #1441
    threeball
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    tayto lover wrote: »
    I think they could do that.

    Not a chance. Give the 15 best players outside Dublin 3 months together and they would win easily. The really top players would just thrive being surrounded by players of equal quality. Kerry and mayo run dublin close and they would only have 2 each on the team.


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