If anyone is selling or not using 1 spare ticket for the Kilkenny Dublin In Parnell park tomorrow. Ideally looking for 1 stand ticket as its sold out on Ticketmaster. Send me a PM if anyone has anything, thanks.
Just a heads up tickets are online now for the Roscommon match but they don't appear when you go into the Ticketmaster app. Good thing I've been checking everything all week. What a joke.
Seniors doing well. I thought third place would be the best they cpuld do and i exoected them to do that but with a woylunded Kilkenny in Parnell on Saturday and Galway not firing on all cylinders away in Salthill there is an outside chance we could make a Leinster final. Still think a Kilkenny v Galway final is the most likely outcome but we're in with a chance. Saturday's game will be interesting.
Speaking of hurlers, the senior team are doing ok. I said during the league that if you want to be taken seriously, you have to put big numbers on teams like Antrim, and that's exactly what they did the last day. Kinda astonished that they're on top after three games, albeit with the two toughest games to come, but there won't be another opportunity coming along like this so easy.
Kilkenny will be buzzing for it though, trying to make up for a somewhat shocking start to their season.
Galway were missing Niland who scored 2-8 against us in group match. And a couple other players. They hammered us that day by 16 points so although they were weakened it's still some 25 point turnaround.
Offaly pipped us by a point in group game in Parnell so very little between the sides.
I presume it's a neutral venue for final possibly O Moore Park where we played last night.
It could have 7 or 8 goals too.
Should be a good final against Offaly.
O'Dulaing's lift and strike on the turn late on was a thing of beauty btw.
David Purcell is a fine hurlers. Good to see us score 4 goals. Dublin team at intercounty hurling usually struggle to score goals.
Impressive win from the U-20 hurlers. That's quite a trimming to give to Galway
Great performance all round. Led from start to finish. Good to see a Dublin hurling team so clinical and hungry for goals. That's a comprehensive nine point win v Galway we'll take that any day.
Watched a bit of Offaly beating Kilkenny. Young Screeney is some player and it sets up a what should be a belter of a final.
Good group these under 20s.
Link for the game is up on Ticketmaster just hasn't said when on sale yet FFS.
Whats the story with the tickets for the Roscommon game are they going on sale by themselves? All there is ATM is the group package.
Yeah i'd be quicker to praise Louth than I would criticise Dublin. It was a good game. Not a great spectacle of course but a decent standard.
McCarthy moved well in the second half. Good to see. He had been unconvincing thus far.
Also Louth stayed in a really wide set up in attack. Right to the touch lines. When they broke forwards caused chaos. Used their keeper as sweeper aggressively as well. Ironically caused the Dublin goal. But Louth were brave. They had a go without being silly about it. Looked very good tactically.Seriously impressed with Louth. I think Ger passed the audition!?
Louth were well set up and were not going to get beaten like last year .We just never got up to it and played like we believed we would win handy no matter .I was a bit disappointed they were able to defend so well against us ,it took a bad play from the keeper to get the bit of a gap that we needed.Mick Fitz was turned very easy and that a disappointment. A team has to turn up and play in every game ,it should be a bit if a warning today that it applies to us as well .
Louth deserved that goal for their play. What was Fitzsimons at there? Dublin have been pretty terrible today, Fenton the only one of them up for the challenge.
Louth have been so disciplined, playing with loads of men back. Dublin haven't been able to build a lead to get them to change.
Finally a goal for Dublin, can they push on now.
Louth with 15 men inside their 45 when Dublin gain possession to attack. Not their own half their own 45. Dublin finishing has been woeful though. Including that goal chance…. Left 5/6 straightforward scores behind them…
That is dreadful by Basquel, terrible miss.
I know it's early in the game, I know it's hard for Dublin to get up for these games and Louth are playing well but Dublin are fairly poor and pedestrian so far.
Leinster Football Final - should be renamed "Ger Brennan's Dublin manager audition".
Never in doubt !! Will need to really up our game from here. Big result for Antrim , puts Dublin in a good position
That was tighter than I expected, 5 point win over Carlow, doesn't augur well for what's ahead!
3rd spot might come down to points difference.
Strong team named for the match against Carlow tomorrow. Hopefully we can be a bit more direct and get a few goals, we'll need goals to progress
Was down in Wexford - great result. Dubs were chasing the game right from the start (it didnt look like a penalty to me) but showed a lot of character. Hopefully this gives them a big boost now going into the rest of the championship. Saw lots of kids there from Crokes and Plunketts - fair play to the clubs for bringing them down.
Anyone go down to Wexford Park? By all accounts we scarcely deserved the draw but positive nonetheless that we were able to eek it out.
I hope your right on Cluxton treating it like a challenge match.
I thought O'Hanlon/Comerford were grand overall. The problem is Cluxton was brought in specifically because if his kickout expertise, and sweeping. Not for his "normal" goalkeeping.
If Cluxton does not have those majority of kickouts nailed (plus frees) what is the point of playing him? It would be terrible if he plays like that against one of the big guns, makes an error and is made look very foolish. It would not be a great way to end a career.
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Maybe someone else knows this when John O'Leary was dropped for Byrne. How long did O'Leary stay as sub goalie for Dublin was it a year or two?
He wasn't happy with Parnells recruitment policy about 10-15 year when they sold land and brought in a load of outside players. He dropped down and played with their second team. Not aware of any fall out last year.
He didn't play with them in a few years, not just last year. Some fall out going back a while when Parnell's were getting a lot of big name players
