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

Of the starting 15 on Saturday who will be under 30 come next year's championship? I'm counting 5 here, who am I missing:

Gannon

Cofaigh Byrne

McGinnis

Bugler

O'Dell

Mickey did actually lay the foundations for Louth.

Will be a big step up though the backroom team should be better than the last group .He will have to be given a couple years and that's no gimme with impatient supporters and at this very early stage Meath could bag a couple Leinster titles over the next while which will add a bit of pressure .Unless some of the lads who will be given more game time next year step up ,it will take a few years to get back to the top .

I'd put my house on it that he will be the new senior manager. Will he take the same backroom team that he had for Louth?

Keys has been wrong before. Will be a big surprise if Ger doesn't become the new Dublin senior manager now, big step up with a lot more expectation on his shoulders, Darcy could well be on Brennan's management team though.

Cannot believe that Dublin hurling has its biggest game in a generation coming up this weekend, and ye still cant even stop talking about football.

Anyone I've spoken to from Cork believe they'll win by 4 or 5 points. Certainly it looks like they'll outnumber the dubs 3 to 1 in Croker.

I'm hopeful that we'll go well. Everything points to a Cork win but i wouldn't discount the idea that Dublin have taken a step forward to really compete with them.

I actually think the Kilkenny game is more a barometer of where Dublin at/heading than the Limerick one. I've watched it back since and we were very competitive in general play and carried a serious goal threat. The problem for us is that we were awful in giving up goal chances ourselves.

That looks to have been addressed with no goals given up to either Galway or Limerick but Cork are the acid test aren't they. If they sniff blood they'll go for it.

If we hold them out and we're not spooked by the occasion I think we can sneak it. Up the Dubs.

Hill three quarters Dubs, outnumbered everywhere else.

Real danger of getting a Cork accent by full time!

That first half flew by. Cork getting in too easy for goals, obviously. But just about hanging on.

Not too disappointed. There's little the lads could have done differently. Cork are miles better physically and tactically they forced us to play a game that emphasised their strengths. We were badly bullied in the middle third.

Hard luck lads. What an atmosphere of colour and occasion. It was like an all Ireland that first half. After about 20mins a huge roar of COYBIB echoing through Croker. Good to see the hurlers getting a backing.

Cork were near perfect today nobody would have beaten them. It's a shame you hit the crossbar in the first half. Needed every goal chance to try and rattle cork.

Think saying we did kind of alright is a bit of a stretch conceding 7 -26 is an awful total might have worth it to try and do damage limitation after goal three or four .