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

Mick Fitz will stick to Clifford like super glue. He won't get a sniff.

Yeah I remember that too. I think both sides are similar in that regard nowadays, don’t believe the weather is a big deal either way.

Probably wasn’t back then either!

RIP to Jim Gavin sr , like many a west clare man in the 1960s he made dublin his home , and like many clare people that moved up, dublin made him and his family a success

i only live a few miles away from his home place , and still wonder how different things would have been had he stayed at home and manned the farm

his son never forgot his roots either , every year without fail the dubs were down in west clare for a weekend away with sam ,jim jr never forgot his roots and made sure the next generation of clare footballlers got to see more of sam mcguire then the actual kerry team of the time

Anyone listening to the Football Pod on Off The Ball with James O Donoghue of Kerry and our own Paddy Andrews it's a bit of a running joke that Gough has favoured us in big games v Kerry over the years. O Donoghue tongue in cheek hoping Gough evens it up in the final next week. I don't worry about referee's myself.

I really don't take much notice of referee's. I couldn't really say which ones i think are good or not so good. Obviously you wouldn't want to be on the end of a match defining wrong call but no point in worrying about now imo.

Hard to believe we haven't lost an All Ireland final since 1994 against Down. I was on the Hill that rainy day and it added to the misery of '91 v Meath, '92 v Donegal and '93 v Derry. I was never so depressed leaving Croke Park that day wondering would we ever win another final.

Roll on 29 years and we are looking to win our 10th final out of 10 next Sunday. Some turnaround. From nearly men to Kings of the Hill.

Yes the Peter Crowley one i remember was the wrong call. Should have been a free for Kerry.

What i mean by a running joke is the two lads have had a laugh about it numerous times. Usually Paddy taking the proverbial but James (or Jimmy as Paddy calls him) is well able for it.

Yeah was 16 semi, down by a point, Kevin Mc on Barry John.

They went down the other end and got a point, a nicely taken one by Connolly

Dublin didn't score a goal in 2016 which was a semi final. Don't forget Gough also missed the Aidan O'Mahony block on Philly McMahon and Donaghy pull down on Kilkenny in that game. Both blatant cards. The McManaman 45s was also in 2016 game. David Coldrick refereed 2015 final

I don't know. Mick Fitzsimons is a great player but I don't think he would be strong enough or (dare I say) indulges enough in the dark arts to keep Clifford quiet. I'm not from Dublin, so I could be wrong. I saw a comment about Philly McMahon maybe being the ideal type marker. That would be a very interesting match-up alright.

I'm sure many people said that Christy McCaigue would be a good man for the job. 9 points later, 4 from play and a mark. Job done. I cannot see any of the Dublin defenders being able to hold him in an All Ireland final. Stop the supply is easier said than done. Paudi Clifford will run all day for the ball, and first thing is he raise the head to see where the brother is. Maybe some sweeper system?? But Derry are as defensive as they come, and they couldn't stop the threat.

Yeah I was thinking about that this week, that Dublin team of the 90's (so much hard hard luck stories/flops) the 00's side were just not good enough when it came to the crunch.

I was wondering -

1) How many points do posters think David Clifford is worth to Kerry?

2) How many points will David Clifford have to kept to for Dublin to win?

3) Who will be the fella to keep David Clifford quiet - Mick Fitz?

DC could well end up with close to ten points with the mark ideal for him .We simply have to disrupt the ball into him as much as possible .He will be the most difficult player on the field to nullify or close to it. We need a return from our forwards on the scoreboard obviously a few points from a few to bring us up to to a winning tally .As above we have to be disciplined and not pick up cards especially early and if we do get a card get him one too so he doesn't have a free run of things . Like plenty of other players he is good at grabbing and making it look like he is being pulled down .

Kerry have the best defensive set up in the country. Only 3 championship goals conceded in last two years and best goalie Shane Ryan in form of his life. We struggle for goals in the tight. 12/ games 16 championship goals were scored against Laois, Louth & Sligo. Only 4 goals in 5 other games. Costello has no goals this year and Con hasn't scored any goal in Croke Park. Con and Kilkenny are really out of form. The narrative we would won if had Con, Mannion and Jack is wrong. If kerry score the penalty we could have been hammered. Mannion and Jack have plenty little football prior rejoining Dublin panel and are struggling to adjust to intercounty pace.

We need to avoid bringing ball into contact as kerry are masters of the turnover. This was our downfall in first half last year. Hopefully we have learned from that game.