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

No U20 Leinster title won the last five years will make the task of rebuilding under the new manager a harder task.

Aren't we saying the same thing? How do you not be overly reliant on the older lads… you don't pick them no?

Ciaran Kilkenny is one of the mightiest men ever to play for Dublin but I watch him insist on taking ownership of every placed ball. I watch a lot of the younger players defer to him instead of backing themselves. When they get it they either look for Ciaran or they look to transition it away to one of the other trusted few. That's not healthy even if Kilkenny was at the peak of his powers.

It's a team game and the manager needs to get the best out of the team. The younger players don't need experience. They need confidence and they need a trust placed in them. None of them are thriving. Why is that. They all have talent to anyone watching closely.

Jason???

The next manager might persuade Fenton and Mannion to return to the fold

That and/or needs trials with the clubs. Intermediate even. And personally I think they need aggressive confident attitude.

Annoyingly I don’t think the problems with the team are not that bad. Full Back line and Half back line are grand. That is a good platform to work off.
Goalkeeper, A midfielder and three forwards needed. The problem is they need to be high energy and “old school”. High energy and aggressive. Not players whose first thought is sideways or backwards. Important to get a keeper and stick with him. No chopping and changing.

Aggression is really lacking in this Dublin team. Need to find a Hedgo equivalent for the footballers (like the hurlers have upfront). Dessie’s answer (during the league) seemed to be EOD. So he obviously knew Dublin were not physicall enough to be that desperate

This might be a five year fix. Until club players are taught to go back to basics, and don’t do as much slow handpassing, sideways, backwards stuff.

Watching Donegal, Tyrone, Monaghan (first half) effortlessly kick over 2 pointers with plenty of distance to spare in a lot of cases.Made it look like they were playing a different sport to Dublin.

The problem with Fenton is he always planned to ten years intercounty and step back to Raheny only. Very hard to change that mindset.

At a guess I would say Dublin have the most wide count in the championship? One pointers, two pointers the whole lot. Have looked like Mayo at times. Stupid stuff.

If Fenton and or Mannion come back, great but Dublin have to move on - can't build for the future looking back. They'll probably lose a couple more of their slawarths this year. Hopefully the new manager, with a new focus on the new rules bring new energy going forward. Dublin are not in the top 3-4 teams at the moment but not a million miles away either, there's not a huge gap between all the teams.

Make one of the younger lads captain.

Basically this Dublin team are “too nice”. Under these new rules you need dogs.
P’O’CB ok he is winning more ball than he was. But he is a timid sort of fella. Even though he is a big lump.

Much as I hate to say it Meath seem to have that sussed. Big aggressive players. I will actually be at both games today. But “undercover” no Dublin colours (too embarrassing to wear them) 😳

Meath are back! There's a real bang of 1996 of this, coming from no where to get to the semis!

That's Meath, Louth and Kildare to contend with next year in Leinster!