The decline of Dublin GAA at intercounty level

Any Dublin player approached was prior to them winning a AI senior medal.

Every county goes through cycles.

At least the Leinster championship will be interesting for a few years. 3 or 4 teams capable of winning.

I don't think Dublin will an AI for at least 5 years but it's inevitable they'll have a great team again.

They'll reach quarter finals and semis, but there's a lot of quality teams at the business end of the championship so it's hard to win an AI.

Kerry and Donegal are favorites right now.

Tyrone are a coming force with their underage success.

Armagh and Derry also strong.

Galway are string but their better players are getting older.

It'll be interesting to see Mayo.

Cork and Meath are coming forces also.

Are all approaches made public ?

Does every player who thinks about going over have to declare it publicly ?

Home advantage does matter. It does in all sports. Just because Dublin don't always take maximum benefit from it doesn't mean that it isn't a huge advantage to have. Other teams would love to have played all their All-Ireland finals, semi-finals etc in their home stadium. But it was only Dublin that had this advantage. Which was combined with other significant unique unfair advantages like population, funding which were unprecedented in their combination, nature, scale and duration.

So yes, Dublin have slipped a bit in recent years, particularly in the All-Ireland series. While they lost the provincial last year, that was off the back of the Leinster Championship being an uncompetitive shambles for almost 20 years. One swallow doesn't make summer. The current Dublin management should absolutely be criticised for not taking full advantage of the county's unique advantages, as Jim Gavin showed can be done so easily. But it doesn't mean the fundamental problems affecting the prestige, integrity and fairness of inter-county football have been fixed.

Meath have less All Irelands than Galway so I can't imagine they consider Croke Park as familiar territory. They were so far off the mark in last year's semi final I dont think they will be any nearer this year. They need to win leinster first before any dreams of an AI.

Playing in a Hurling province does matter , Kerry with a ridiculous 84 Munster titles have an unfair advantage for over 100 years, time to split in 2 , or move them out of Munster.

The current team have to consider Croke Park as familiar territory. Their home league games are being played in Croke Park this season. They are in Croke Park almost every second weekend.

It wasn't really anything to do with the population. The population has always been there, and other sports in the city as rivals to the GAA. I think the begrudgery was more to do with the funding. Back in the day, Bertie wanted to boost Dublin GAA, so he aided them financially. That's all fact and the details are all online. When the success kicked off approx. 15 years ago, and especially when Dublin were winning year after year, then unsurprisingly, there was a fear amongst other counties that the financial aid had led to a team that was almost unbeatable, due to the resources that they had at their behest. People had lost interest in the game, as what was the point in trying to compete? When other counties have this batch-type of excess for a few years on the bounce, people don't take as much notice, because it is assumed that they will fall back to the pack again. But with the money element involved in Dublin GAA, there was a fear that it had created a set-up that would not be matched by other counties and that Dublin would keep on winning. That obviously is not how it turned out, and now we have a Dublin team battled against relegation. To be honest, I don't know how that happened. But at least, it have brought the competitiveness back into Gaelic football. That and the new rules has put the sport in a good place in my opinion.

A quick google will tell the following:-

Over the last decade, Dublin GAA received approximately €15.4 million more in games development funding than any other county, with their, at times, controversial high funding levels leading to a total of over €23 million in developmental grants between 2007 and 2023. 

They beat limerick last year, is that not evidence of getting closer to the more traditional counties?

At this stage, Ger Brennan would be delighted with a Leinster success and anything else is bonus territory.

The new rules have not brought competitiveness back into gaelic football , all it has done is it suited Kerry into being the dominant force once again ,a quick google will tell you all the top Counties don't lack for funding ,kerry dominating again does not put the sport in a good place in my opinion.

Cork should really be stronger given their population and tradition.

Although I think they're coming good again.

I used to get a good giggle on here when some people were predicting that Dublin would win 20 in a row and mad stuff like that.

Even the last few All Ireland’s we won under Dessie, you could kind of see it was coming to an end. Too many great players retiring in a short period.

They were a great team but dominance never lasts in sport.