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

How many more sites are you going to ask this same question ?😏

Dubs can't win. For years throughout the 90s and 2000s I was told that we should be doing better, we are an embarrassment because we have population and monetary advantages and one all Ireland in 20 years is a joke blah blah. They get their act together and start winning a few All Irelands and the same gobshites are now calling for the county to be split. It's a pipe dream lads, will never happen, you're wasting you're energy.

Dublin GAA will never agree to a split , why not merge counties ?

They’ll be split if they win enough and interest (so money in the form of crowds/tv ratings) declines enough. It’s already happened with the Leinster championship, when the All Ireland championship goes a similar way a split will happen.

Be interesting to see Dubs Kerry semi, GAA will be praying for Kerry victory because if Dublin can win Sam when they are having a disastrous year, there’s not much hope for the game.

The Munster Championship is as dead as Leinster, no doubt. It’s what will happen if the All Ireland goes a similar way is the only question left. I presume the GAA would take action at that point but who knows maybe not.

If Dublin can win it this year, with all of the squad issues/manager issues (assuming those rumours have some degree of truth) we are probably not far off finding out what would happen in that scenario.

The split is a pipe dream fella, don't do it to yourself. Never gonna happen.

Time will tell. It just depends on how you view the future of Gaelic football. I happen to think under the current format it will be Dublin winning 8+ all Ireland’s a decade which is obviously unsustainable and would absolutely lead to change. If you think Dublin will be ‘only’ winning five or less a decade then I get why you think it will never happen.

Would you compare it to winning 11 all irelands in a 15 year period? Strangely Kilkenny Hurling team was never split right? And even stranger that hurling survived. Like I said it's a pipe dream and will never happen.

Kilkenny achieved all that without the aid of massive amounts central funding that put GPOs all over Dublin and secondly are working off a population that is quite modest in size. The only stick you could beat them with is not promoting football, but if you go down that route you'd have to after half the counties in Ireland for not properly promoting hurling.

No accounting for incompetent management. Even the Titanic was sunk.

Think we might be waiting a few years for our next title , "hope to god im wrong" but 100% you are right with what you are saying.

This thread went very quiet , i wonder why lol......

And surprise surprise i disagree , nothing was won by the bitter side , the funding has been sorted , Dublin play were they are told to play , as for population Cork have a far bigger population than Leitrim , Galway bigger population than Monaghan etc etc , Dublin should absolutely not be split , mergers are the only answer , " for the good of the game " .

The funding hasn't been "sorted"? Just look at Dublin's sponsorship deals relative to other counties, in this amateur game. Plus Dublin were overfunded for so long they would have to be underfunded for decades relative to other counties for it to even approach being somewhat fair. There's no doubt about it- we will all be reaping the consequences for decades of the foolish decision from the GAA in the mid-2000s to allow Dublin to load up on money.

All semi-finals and finals, and almost all of Dublin's games full stop, are in Dublin's home ground- that's definitely not a fair state of affairs. And lastly, Dublin are such an outlier when it comes to population that they need to be split. Voluntary mergers can be offered but Dublin should be split voluntarily or involuntarily.

The issue really is that Dublin have all these problems in combination. If Dublin just played almost all consequential games at home- fine, we can move them out of there. If Dublin just had a massive population- fine, we can just split them into two teams. If Dublin just were overfunded for decades, maybe we could just equalise funding from all sources for 20 or so years. But take the scale, nature, combination and duration all these unfair advantages together and you realise no single measure will be sufficient- at least a four way split is now necessary to save the game of gaelic football and help all counties.

The fact Dublin haven't won these last two years, despite every unfair advantage under the sun, reflects very badly on them. They are still unfairly advantaged though and should be split.

Oh dear you really dont like Dublin ! What about Leitrim Sligo etc is it fair they have to compete populatation wise and financially against Cork , Galway etc ? Do you really believe Mayo Kerry Cork Tyrone etc are underfunded ? Anyway Dublin will never ever agree to a split , but sure there's no harm in dreaming.