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

That's an argument to do away with Provinces...

What you really mean is YOU had no issue with Kilkenny winning because it was hurling and your own county could keep on winning in football with their unfair advantages.

amazingly when Dublin are the main obstacle to a Kerry hegemony you want them hobbled but won’t countenance discussion of balancing the field in a way that might reigns Kerry’s advantages in

what a surprise

Well thank god for that , why wait ? please close this sham of an anti Dublin thread down now .

Rather than splitting counties, maybe a US type draft system should be considered.

Identify the best young players in the country and then allow the worst counties have their pick of the best young players.

This would be radical, but radical steps are needed at this stage.

And before someone says its a daft idea, its no more daft than splitting counties.

Sorry, but low attendances at a football match is 100% not a crisis that warrants splitting a County in 2 or 3 or 4.

Apart from anything else - from a financial POV there is a sell-out rugby match on this weekend, three Bruce Springsteen concerts in May, AC/DC later in the year as well as all the QF Gaa matches that will sell well.

So financially, I dont think its a massive issue if attendances are low. Its not like they are any higher anywhere else in the country.

Incidentally - GAA is missing a trick.

The LGFA Leinster Final Dublin vs Meath is on at 11.45am on May 12th as a pre-cursor to the mens game.

I'd have have a fairly strong view that the LGFA game should be the main event. Two of the top 4 teams in country, last 2 all Ireland champions, have already played to a huge crowd in a league match in Navan earlier in the year.

11.45am is a joke time for a throw in for a big game like this and the GAA are almost asking to be accused of disrespect.

Missed opportunity….

So we should not split Dublin because a lot of people like Bruce Springsteen? I have to admire your ingenuity in defending the indefensible.

Dublin should not be split full stop . Are you another hiding Kerry man , dreaming of a return to Kerry domination ?

As i mentioned earlier please close this sham of an anti Dublin thread down now .

I'd have to agree.

In an honest debate about the Dominance of Dublin GAA - there are about 7 or 8 points to be made, on either side.

These have now been said.

And been said again, and again, and again.

This thread says a lot more about peoples addiction to social media (myself included) than it does about the GAA - that people keep coming back to repeat the same points over and over and over, just so that they can get a response.

Now, let me duck for cover while AN OTHER poster comes back to tell me I'm a clown. (And repeat).

Unfortunately you are correct. The Leinster Championship is dead as a competition. I don't believe it'll ever be fixed now. I lay the blame solely at the door of the GAA.

Football in all the other counties has been destroyed. Look at the likes of Kildare - a home game this weekend in Hawkfield. A capacity of about 1k. The once great Meath a shell of their former selves. It genuinely makes be sad.

Paltry crowd at the final today. Is that 18 in 19 wins?

I see the Dublin ladies hammered Meath as well.

be honest that was a really good final 30 40 k at the game galway wasnt sold out last week and it was just over 20k , louth were excellent today , tommy durnin , sam mulroy are top drawer footballers and if they continue should be all star nominations if they continue on that foot

con o'callaghan and the likes of brian fenton were at full tilt today

23k showed up not 30/40k and the womens Leinster final was on also. Dublin friend of mine said Louth parked the bus and dublin were not arsed.

There was nearly double the crowd at a Munster hurling round robin game in cork.

Scotland originally had four professional teams like Ireland - two have folded already (The Borders and Caledonia). The Welsh regions (and Scottish) are largely subsidised by the money generated from the 6 nations and international games, the GAA does not have this international element to fund professionalism.