Dublin GAA Discussion Thread: Mod Note - No 'Dublin Dominance' chat allowed!

Jez that was a dire u20 show by dublin

Bullied and outplayed in every aspect

Missed a fair bit but what I saw was a well deserved win for Offaly really poor from us know the lads are young so have remember that but we looked a very.poor team .

Meant for the under 20s

Thought he was still eligible this year?

Yeah is definite change in the air it is up to them now to push on while Dublin's cycle is on a clear dip. Offaly seem to be on a bit of rival in the two codes good to see. As they are a proud GAA county. I remember when I was down in match at Tullamore and Offaly GAA were doing a collection - flogging tickets for a draw. I can't remember the figure they wanted to collect. But I said 'jayus it is more than that youse need. prayers and all sorts'. That must have been 5/6 years ago at this stage something must have worked.

Better be no more than a rumour. Will be seriously ridiculous if something like that was to happen.

To be totally honest I feel a bit sick after reading that! Hope there's nothing in it.

He's only 20. It was easy for him to do it.

Will any tickets go on general sale for the Leinster Final?

Did anyone see Peter Keanes pre match interview where he started to say seven months back training and stopped and stated 3-4 months. Comical.

I missed that sale this morning but if anyone has a spare i'll give it a good home..

Thanks, they are gone now and I don’t know why ticketmaster don’t just say that when ya go online. Caught up in a meeting at work so didn’t get to check as often as I wanted to. Enjoy the game.

Interesting I couldn’t get anything at all. Will search again tomorrow.

Yeah, you are right they seemed to have gone very quickly. I was lucky to get some at all casually logging on this evening. The site seemed to loop a few times even then. Very surprised at that to be honest. Assumed the level of interest would be fairly low. Was easier to get a tickets for the Connacht final the last day.

Makes me think of how Dublin 'bulked up' Vinnie Murphy and changed him as a player completely. I remember reading that Jack McCaffery specifically asked for tailored training as he did not want to put on muscle as he would lose some of his speed.

(Here is the relevant paragraph)

"I had a few fallings out, not fallings out, discussions, with our nutritionist. At the start of the year they weigh everyone and they say, 'Jack, I reckon you should go up to 84 kilos and it would be good weight, it would be muscle', and I always, like, not to get too technical about it, but 80 kilos is what I want to be at. I like to be light on my feet because that is the way my game is. I run around like a headless chicken. And having big arms, or, like you know, you still need that strong core, but if you run into someone fast enough it's the same as running into them if you're stronger and slower. In 2013 I was probably quite slim, maybe frail is not the word, there probably were times when lads pushed me around. Tomás Brady in the Dublin set-up still brushes me aside, but that is more him being very strong than me - or so I tell myself. I consciously decided I didn't want to put on muscle"