Cavan_King wrote: » A bit of passion wouldn’t go amiss. Not a preprepared piece of regurgitated crap that was signed off by one of the orderlies. Prepare Cluxton’s speech to those given “off the cuff” by Ray Galligan or Conor Sweeney. For the year that’s been in it, it shouldn’t have been hard for Cluxton to be able to find a bit of inspiration himself.
equivariant wrote: » The point I'm making is not about professionalism.transfer market. The point is that the NFL actively puts rules in place to counterbalance teams that have natural advantages - they have draft lotteries and salary caps etc. Of course the GAA can't exactly replicate those things, but they can try to put some measures in place to actively disadvantage the reigning champions no matter who that might be.
threeball wrote: » No ones talking about division 4 teams. None of the division one teams are laying a glove on Dublin and its not because they're rubbish. Anyone of the other top 7 can beat one another on a given day. Thats not true of Dublin. Fitness and conditioning they're streets ahead. They burn off other teams as the game wears on. Same again today. No other team will achieve that level of fitness due to their circumstances. Dublin are more akin to an Aussie rules team in that regard.
LuasSimon wrote: » It’s population that’s the main problem , if you have 6/7000 adult players like Dublin have you have a great chance of getting 30/40 top ones compared to Mayo picking from 1000 footballers . governments particularly Fine Gael have been diverting all jobs into Dublin for the last twenty years and closing many services like garda stations , banks etc in rural Ireland hence quarter of the country live in one county now - Dublin . Mayo voted in big numbers for Fine Gael the Dublin party , 4 out of 5 seats in election before last, Mayo turkeys voting for Christmas! If Enda Kenny etc had encouraged some of these factories to rural ireland , Mayo , Kerry etc might have jobs for young men and their families creating footballers of the present and future .
Cavan_King wrote: » No matter what side of this argument you’re on, and it seems that there’s no middle ground, people are either hugely one way or the other, two images from today surely show that something needs to be done.... 1. The list of local Dublin’s backroom team of 28 vs Mayo’s 17. 2. Stephen Cluxton being handed a prepared victory speech by Dublin’s media manager.
FintanMcluskey wrote: » That’s going to become a huge problem as well, and many have noticed. Undefeated this year. Well ahead of the others, and games never in doubt early on
LuasSimon wrote: » Are the counties in the greater Dublin area ( Kildare, Meath, Louth, Wicklow) the only ones who will have a chance in years to come.....at least they are close enough to Dublin ( where all the jobs are) ...the GAA can put the money into those counties, they might have the population to make some stab at beating Dublin! Most young men in the west ( kerry, Donegal , Mayo ) have to move to Dublin or emigrate for jobs...many of those who emigrated over the last 20/30 years sons now play with Dublin clubs or London.
ooter wrote: » Brian Fenton "it's just unbelievable, the benchyou never get sick of it." Amen. We'll leave it there so.
lawrencesummers wrote: » Fair play to Dublin. They have raised the bar. But sport is fickle, the wheel always turns and the Dubs won’t always be on top.
Cavan_King wrote: » I haven’t met many teachers who find public speaking difficult, it’s a fairly integral part of their job! And what public was he speaking in front of today!?
StupidLikeAFox wrote: » I hope you are right. But typically, in any sport, when these winning streaks come along it is either a golden generation or a special manager, but neither of these seems to be true. Dublin can lose footballers of the year like Diarmuid Connolly or Jack McCaffrey or a manager like Jim Gavin and they don't break a stride
ArielAtom wrote: » I’m on cloud 9. The amount of whinging backbiting and general whinging equates to the level of failure from each and everyone of the failing counties. Get your **** together as was stated by the expert panels. The truth hurts.
CorkRed93 wrote: » The Irish taxpayer paid for Dublin's success. The truth hurts.
lawrencesummers wrote: » Then Kilkenny hurling team of not so long ago was invincible. The Kerry footballers were a dead very form5 in a row. The show about christy ring had him going for nine until the rackerts came along. New Zealand were favourites for last years rugby World Cup. The only certainty in sport is that you will Always eventually lose.
ooter wrote: » They also paid for Dublin's (hurling) failure.
CorkRed93 wrote: » Its utter nonsense in Dublins case. They have a conveyor belt of talent coming through constantly. Those kerry teams of the 80s had very little turnover of players in comparison
ClanofLams wrote: » Dublin hurling has had enormously successful decade compared to being knocked out by Westmeath in 2005.
Gooey Looey wrote: » We need money to get our **** together! Here's something Dubs know nothing about, fundraisers, they don't need them. Outside Dublin it's a constant fundraiser just to survive
kilns wrote: » Laois knocked them out last year.....................
lawrencesummers wrote: » Get over it, dublin have a better team now, and they have a great side that’s dedicated and hard working where most other counties are abject in their application. .
ClanofLams wrote: » The situations are not comparable. The Kerry team you mention had one injury enforced change between the first and last of the five in a row finals.
ooter wrote: » They played an average of 4 games a year from 78 to 82, one year they only played 3 games. Very easy to pick the same team consistently when you're dealing with so few games. Different story these days, Dublin had 9 games last year.
ArielAtom wrote: » Stop whinging on an Internet forum and sort your inadequacies out. Very simple advice.
