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The Leinster Championship is dead.
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Dublin didn't compete at u21 level for 3 years from 1986! :pac: Where are you getting decades from?
Ah, in a way, he's right that they didn't compete at U-21 for decades.
The U-21 championships only started in 1964. So Dublin didn't compete in them in the 1950s....the 1940s....the 1930s....the 1920s....and so on.
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Uncle Pierre wrote: »Ah, in a way, he's right that they didn't compete at U-21 for decades.
The U-21 championships only started in 1964. So Dublin didn't compete in them in the 1950s....the 1940s....the 1930s....the 1920s....and so on.
Funny
But it is true Dublin did not compete in the u21 for long spells after it was founded. I suggest you contact the Dublin County Board for details. Plus even when there it was not treated seriously.Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.
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But what seems to be ignored is that fact that for the 50 years, leaving aside the period of the late 90's/early 00's, most teams in Leinster has haven't exactly been knocking at the door.
Personally I see no reason to believe this will change
I don't think that's ignored at all. And unfortunately, I agree it will never change. We're never going to be in a position whereby every county in Leinster starts out thinking they have as equal a chance of winning the provincial title as anybody else. The likes of Carlow, Wicklow, and ourselves here in Wexford are always going to be minnows.
But the difference is that up to 2010, there were always probably three counties as roughly equal main challengers. Dublin and Meath were usually two of the three, and at different times over the years, the third one might have been Offaly, Kildare, or even Wexford (if you go back far enough!).
There'd also have been two or three others who genuinely felt they had a chance if things fell right for them. Even in the decade just finished, Wexford had a great chance of winning the 2011 Leinster Final against Dublin. A horrible own goal with about 20 minutes to go was all that separated the sides that day. (2-11 to 1-11).
By the way, was looking on YouTube to see if I could find that goal. I can't, but I did find this from the semi-final in 2011 instead - a hugely controversial free that Dublin got while level in injury time against Kildare:
I'm not putting it up there from an "even the referees help Dublin" point of view. I'm putting it up simply to show how close Kildare were to Dublin at that time too.
I can't speak for Kildare, but I do know it's highly unlikely Wexford will ever go so close to winning Leinster again. Just nine years ago, a genuine "golden generation" of players and a good manager was good enough to bring us close. But now, even that wouldn't be enough, because of how Dublin have become so dominant.
There was talk above of "delusion". Greatest example of it simply has to be the claim that Dublin "are the saviours of the GAA".
Even leaving aside how the GAA is about more than gaelic football (has anybody ever heard of hurling?
), they've hardly been the saviour of it. It's more likely that ongoing dominance, with no end in sight, will be its ruination. 0 -
Uncle Pierre wrote: »I don't think that's ignored at all. And unfortunately, I agree it will never change. We're never going to be in a position whereby every county in Leinster starts out thinking they have as equal a chance of winning the provincial title as anybody else. The likes of Carlow, Wicklow, and ourselves here in Wexford are always going to be minnows.
But the difference is that up to 2010, there were always probably three counties as roughly equal main challengers. Dublin and Meath were usually two of the three, and at different times over the years, the third one might have been Offaly, Kildare, or even Wexford (if you go back far enough!).
There'd also have been two or three others who genuinely felt they had a chance if things fell right for them. Even in the decade just finished, Wexford had a great chance of winning the 2011 Leinster Final against Dublin. A horrible own goal with about 20 minutes to go was all that separated the sides that day. (2-11 to 1-11).
By the way, was looking on YouTube to see if I could find that goal. I can't, but I did find this from the semi-final in 2011 instead - a hugely controversial free that Dublin got while level in injury time against Kildare:
I'm not putting it up there from an "even the referees help Dublin" point of view. I'm putting it up simply to show how close Kildare were to Dublin at that time too.
I can't speak for Kildare, but I do know it's highly unlikely Wexford will ever go so close to winning Leinster again. Just nine years ago, a genuine "golden generation" of players and a good manager was good enough to bring us close. But now, even that wouldn't be enough, because of how Dublin have become so dominant.
There was talk above of "delusion". Greatest example of it simply has to be the claim that Dublin "are the saviours of the GAA".
Even leaving aside how the GAA is about more than gaelic football (has anybody ever heard of hurling?), they've hardly been the saviour of it. It's more likely that ongoing dominance, with no end in sight, will be its ruination.
Would agree with some of what you said, although not the ruination bit. In terms of Wexford their Football resurgence seemed to coincide with the a lean spell for the Hurlers.
Is there a geographical spilt in Wexford between football and hurling0 -
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Would agree with some of what you said, although not the ruination bit. In terms of Wexford their Football resurgence seemed to coincide with the a lean spell for the Hurlers.
Is there a geographical spilt in Wexford between football and hurling
Unfortunately, the lean spell in Wexford hurling has gone on since 1968, apart from the All-Ireland victory of 1996 and few minor bright spots since then, such as winning Leinster in 1997, 2004 and again last year.
Previously pointed out how we were in 11 All-Ireland hurling finals in the 26 years between 1951 and 1977. We've only been in one since then. Oh, if only we had a Wexford Taoiseach, with a few friends on the Sports Council.
There's no real geographic split in Wexford, the way there is in many other dual counties. Obviously some clubs concentrate one game more than the other, but there's not a single large area where you could say either "it's all football there" or "it's all hurling there". I actually think it's part of our problem, but that's a whole other story.0
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