The Dominance of Dublin GAA *Mod warning post#1*

Exactly, very true. Gavin as a manager, Cluxton as a captain, the best leadership any GAA team has ever had, when married to the one-off talents of McCarthy, McCaffrey, Brogan et al. Of the truly great team, McCarthy is a shadow, probably destined to move to full-back where he can still do a job, and only Fenton and Kilkenny are left of the greats of the six-in-a-row. Even Con O'Callaghan, who will go on the longest is already 26. Behind him, there are very few who have the potential to be remembered as all-time greats.

In fairness, I never seen anyone state that dublin were going to win 10 in a row and anything else was an impossibility, which seems to be the point that many are trying to ridicule here, which is a load of bs really.

I know my own personal view that I had expressed on here, and that I still believe, is that even when dublin eventually did lose, they would just churn out another team and the thing will start over again, and that in the grander scheme of things, they have been pushed out of kilter with their rivals, which in turn is going to negatively affect the competition. I stand over that completely. They didnt produce the greatest team of all time in a coincidental turn of events - the team came about from the funding pumped into coaching in the county that didnt and doesnt exist elsewhere. Another team will follow soon enough. What then? More spiels about the great - insert manager and player names. Another greatest team? What are the odds! Nobody buys that, including most of those who are saying it.

In all honesty, the fact that dublin losing a semi final in extra time, and then a few league games where they have a raft of their main guys missing, is seen as thos massive fall from grace and has their own fans half-gloating on here, only shows how far detached from reality they have become. That has often been a standard season for my own county, and kerry also. Blooding players, trying things, maybe a few guys not as fit as they should be early doors. Dublin could win their next couple of games and be on a bounce for the championship.

Dublin have all the advantages and nothing has changed in this regard. If Mayo for example had gotten to host their All Ireland replays against Dublin in Castlebar, are people of the opinion that it would not have tipped the balance in Mayo's favour in a few of those encounters?

Leinster's Capital City and County Populations:

1. Dublin City 554,554

2. Fingal County 296,020

3. South Dublin County 278,767

4. Kildare 222,504

5. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County 218,018

6. Meath 195,044

Fingal County + a third of the City = North Dublin.

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County + a third of the City = Mid Dublin.

South Dublin County + a third of the City = South Dublin.

Dublin is 3 counties in 1. The 3 counties of Dublin designated a third of the city is the long-term viable solution for the game.

The conundrum is to have a Dublin entity in a competitive or exhibition game for old times sake. St. Patrick's Day in Croke Park is being freed up. Possibly Dublin v Rest of Ireland is the solution there for nostalgia's sake.

MacKenna 2019 - Dublin should be split in four

MacKenna 2019 - Dublin conveyor belt no sign of stopping !

quote from the above article -

‘this is a conveyor belt and, while yet another golden generation, it’s hardly once-in-a-lifetime unless a lifetime is just a couple of years. After all, the average age across the five-in-a-row remained stable’

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Maybe it is time to admit that the prophet for many on this thread was in fact a false one? One who did not nor does not have a true grasp on Dublin GAA. But merely attempted to create hysteria to make a living a ‘journalist’. While living abroad looking from the outside in.

Never mind from a county outside Dublin. An ex pat abroad with a vindictive narrative. Now many on this thread who believed the gospel of this false prophet. Now appear very foolish.

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I do not count 2020 Covid year. But you need only look at the Dublin match reports from the league 2021 and Wexford in the championship onwards in particular. This fall did not happen overnight. Standards dropped.

Stats under Dessie Farrell NFL 2022 pre Tyrone in Omagh.

Does not make pretty reading from a Dublin perspective.

On top of this -

12 players have retired since the 2018 AI final panel. They have not been replaced with players of a similar quality.

Bernard Brogan was not in the panel by the way due to injury.

The whole thing is now a perfect storm of a mess. Lost quality. Poor sideline management and no young lads of note coming through.

Nope not gonna happen Dublin is one County only, Long term viable solution is mergers

Another nonsense post , Dublin Gaa is one County only .

A few years ago ?

Dublin applied for and received funding of provincial status. Funding of provincial status should bring provincial responsibilities.

You seem to have changed tact slightly since you can no longer validly use the conveyor belt spilt argument. You are now back to going the opposite way and claim Dublin should act like a province. Yet curiously you have not mentioned the logistic challenges Dublin GAA have that few if any counties have. Price of land. Lack of availability of land. Tyrone built a Centre of Excellence for a cheaper equivalent of a single piece of land Dublin GAA purchased in the spawell. With nothing built on it. Think of that for a moment.

Your arguments against Dublin GAA seem very duplicitous and devious. Depending on how Dublin are performing you can

1) Call for a Dublin split into xyz

2) Claim Dublin are a province anyways and should do better and act like one

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For that is Ewan MacKenna’s two pronged argument you are parroting. Designed to ‘win’ any argument against Dublin GAA no matter how poor or well they do.

No nuance or intrinsic Dublin variables are ever discussed by Dublin GAA detractors. No mention of Vast swathes of non GAA Dublin. Some areas have huge populations only one club. Some have no senior club. Cost of living, price of rent difficulty in traversing from one side of the city to another etc.

Such as other countries in Leinster merging ? Make 12 strong teams based on geography to me that is logical. A home and away two tier league championship. Clubs merge all the time why not counties? If spilts are mooted the very next sentence should include ‘merger’.

Kerry are a pround people and you have your heritage , like it or not Kerry has destroyed Munster football with there total domination "81 Munster titles" Kerry are intelligent people , Kerry need to be split in 2 , enough is enough , There needs to be intelligent dialague

Yes, it should.

The recently announced championship format would have to expand to 4 groups of 5. 2 groups of 5 in the Tailteann Cup. The remaining 4 plus New York should contest an extra tier.

Agreed with the Mergers , but lets not forget the splitting of Kerry should be on the agenda also, there domination of Munster has to stop

Dublin play where they are told to play , Kerry GAA and are well funded , better than most and want for nothing , Kerry have ruined Munster football , "81 Munster titles" they need to be split for sure .