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

Dark days for inter-county GAA. We've seen a general reduction in supporter interest, in part due to the dour, negative style of play that Dublin introduced and perfected under Jim Gavin (endless handpassing, slow buildups, only taking high percentage shots, no high fielding, 15 men behind the ball often) becoming the dominant style of play. Nothing illegal about this, it's on the GAA to change it, but it's not good to watch. Probably was a good thing that Armagh won as while they do employ this style as well, they're among the less defensive of teams nowadays.

We also saw the complete collapse of interest in Leinster in particular, once a great competition. There are issues with Provincials in general but no Province has seen such a marked decline as Leinster in interest and supporter (and potentially player) participation. This of course relates mostly to what has already been discussed on this thread.

Dublin may have lost by a point at home vs Galway, for which Dessie Farrell should be very ashamed, but none of the fundamental issues have been fixed. The GAA probably rue the day they made the decision to give Dublin alone all that additional funding and use Croke Park as a home pitch for the NFL as well, in the context of other very pronounced advantages. It's caused terrible damage to the inter-county game.

Strange how this anti Dublin nonsense is allowed to go on from this obsessed poster ! And lets be clear it is 100% anti Dublin , designed to get a reaction , no point in reporting as it is a waste of time , as the obsessed anti Dublin poster appears to be allowed to post this nonsense time and time again .

I presume you are talking about Munster as well?

Nope Munster is fine , Kerry winning 85 Munster titles and winning something like 14 out of the last 16 Munster titles tis grand like , all that poster can see is Dublin 🙄

Indeed !!

Pretty much. The same arguments and counter arguments have been done to death at this stage. I dont really think there is anything new that can be added. But no doubt the same couple of posters will go at it until the thread is locked again

no it’s not, it’s a couple of you rehashing the same BS to each other again and again and again.

Again its the same poster who keeps bringing it up again ! its there in front of you .

And you’ll be bring up the same argument in response ; “what about Munster?”…just agree to disagree and move on

man on internet in “I am not to blame, the other guy is” claim shocker

You see what you want to see , 14 years of Dublin bashing is a fact !

Yep agreed they did recognise it on another thread and he brought it straight back up on this thread, i always thought trolling/goading is not allowed , if the goading was stopped there would be no feeding them ,how it is allowed to continue is the question

That's a complete misrepresentation- I've repeatedly said that none of these issues (Dublin's dour, negative style, funding, playing at home etc) are Dublin's fault. The blame lies with the GAA. And what I've proposed to address things helps Dublin. So it's not "anti-Dublin" in any way whatsoever. There is nothing reportable in my posts either.

Donegal played defensively in 2011, for sure, but while still defensive, they played more attractive football from 2012 to 2014. Whereas the dour, negative style I mentioned in my post was introduced and perfected by Dublin in the latter part of Jim Gavin's tenure. Nothing illegal about it, and if it wins matches within the rules, more power to the team. But it was awful to watch so it definitely wasn't of the highest quality. And other teams have now copied it. It's up to the GAA to change the rules to bring some spectacle to the game we all love.

Dublin have been beaten fairly repeatedly in recent years- this year, 2022, 2021. Whereas they have never won fairly. In a general sense, because their victories have come off a platform of unfair advantages in population, funding, playing at home etc. In a more specific sense too, they've been on the beneficial end of some extremely questionable refereeing decisions too, particularly in the last decade vs Mayo. I suppose that comes with home advantage though ultimately so can probably be bundled in under that category of unfair advantage. In the final too, while Armagh were undoubtedly defensive, at least they attacked with some pace. Galway were content to handpass around the 45 so can't exactly call it a good spectacle, as with Dublin.