The 2025 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Cluxton unwilling to step away is also a major issue at this point. Not playing the league and trying to adapt to the new rules meant Farrell should have cut him loose.

Kildare, Louth and Meath all in or around the same quality.

Anyone relatively clued into Dublin football over the last 15 years saw this coming. While people complained about money, population size, playing in Croke Park, resources etc, the reality was that Dublin were going through the greatest era in its history. The likes of Cluxton, Flynn, O'Sullivan, McCarthy, Kev Mc, O'Gara, Michael Dara, Fitzsimons etc + the 1993-95 born lads (Fenton, McCaffrey, Small, Scully, Costello, Kilkenny, Mannion etc) contributed to what was just a machine of a team. Yes of course, off field advantages would have helped but the players were the reason why Dublin dominated.

Now that the golden team is falling off piece by piece, we are seeing the issues that exist in Dublin Gaa - poorly coached underage teams and lack of talent coming through. We lost to Louth two years in a row at u20s.

Now, having said all that, with the new rules, I do still think that Dublin can be competitive this year and potentially win an All-Ireland. I would say there are 5-6 teams ahead of us, but with the new rules I think we could still potentially end up beating teams better than us.

The real issue will be over the next 3 or so years. Once the remainder of that 1993-95 group of player retires, we will seriously struggle. I think things will get very low once we see Kilkenny, Costello, Scully, Small etc go.

The fans or the players??

One thing that was disappointing to see was so little fans at Meath v Dublin. To say it was at 70% capacity would be kind

Crowd was mostly Dubs, and the rest diehard Royals.

I must admit the organisation traffic wise and parking is way better in Portlaoise than most GAA places. Great set up.

Hopefully those Donegal people there today will get tickets, but I wouldn't bet on it. All of the Armagh people there yesterday will not get tickets, many will have had the the GAA to take their money for only one of three Ulster games.

I was born in 1976 and first gaelic football memory is the 1981 All Ireland.

I never remember a Dublin team not competing to win Leinster. I seldom remember them being outside the top 4 favourites for an All Ireland.

If properly managed Dublin will be competitive in the future. They have too many players not to be.

Revenge for 2023.

DUBLIN 4-30 LAOIS 2-9. (this was before 2 pointers).

I be more afraid of Tyrone as third group seeds than Dublin. A weak group is as much if not more of a disadvantage as a strong group. Winning a weak group leaves you up against battle hardened team by the QF and SF. It has cost Kerry as much as anything else the last two seasons.

Anyone selling Louth jerseys? 😉

Just realised a repeat of the 2010 Leinster Final and all.

15 years of penance for meath , this is their chance to win it naturally and break the curse 😂

We have had 4 different winners, Tyrone, Kerry , Dublin and Armagh. It is probably as likely as not that one of Galway or Donegal will win this year and perhaps the other the following year. One more would be needed, Derry might have been that other, but they have fallen away.

This tweet gives an explanation of it (or at least an interpretation of it)

For both the 45 and the Penalty this just feels like they should be the other way around.

How long before we reenter the cycle of Mayo winning 3 all Ireland’s in 15 years with a World War in between

I’ll enjoy most of that :D