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

I think if Dublin have any ambitions to winning Sam again in the next few years they need to win Leinster this year otherwise they will be back with the chasing pack for a lengthy barren spell. A Leinster win for the new crop would be a massive confidence booster.

Facts are facts Meath blew it again v Louth and again, v Westmeath. If anyone has “saved” the Leinster championship it was a Dub Ger Brennan (who managed Louth to glory- despite the language barrier) their first Leinster title since 1957. And their first final since Meathman Joe Sheridan scored a “try” v Louth in the 2010 final.

And another Dub (Jim Gavin) who brought in new rules to make football in Leinster more exciting. Poor sides like Meath could no longer keep 14 men behind the ball at all times, and hope for the best.

It basically was two Dubs in combination who “saved” Leinster. Meath are just a punchline in the comedy version of it.

Whst gets me is the Meath shower don’t want to admit it, they have no Dublin to blame now. One of the funniest arguments I heard when Dublin were doing well, was that Meath’s confidence was gone because of the hidings from Dublin.

Spun the other way now, it seems Meath are giving teams like Louth and Westmeath great confidence!

I don’t know if there is a Meath GAA thread on this site? But if I ever did find it, I would guess they are even less happy than usual.

Same old same old , 15 years of whinging about the big bad Dublin 🙄🙄

It is funny. I know Meath supporters who would tell me that only for Dublin, they would have won an All-Ireland. That is now being shown up as laughable.

It's ironic because you replied to the original post of mine which effectively said I'm a big fan of Jim Gavin on OTB with your usual.

Most Dublin fans have long since forgotten about big bad Dublin. League of Ireland attendance increases speak for themselves. I know a fair few former Dublin fans who go regularly to LOI now.

And the best part is it can't be fixed by returning to winning every year. You might never see a return to the glory days we associated with Dublin for decades.

The Dubs live rent free between your ears! No matter what the era.

Anyway back to business. Don’t mind those irrelevant counties.
I see the Match up of the current Leinster champs (Louth) v former champs (Dublin) is not even televised! Only on GAA+.
I would have thought neutrals would have liked to see it. I wonder will that mean more/less of a crowd to travel to O’Moore park as.a result?

Time of writing stand tickets on sale now as well as tickets obviously came back.

You’re probably right. there was loads of Louth supporters at the Leinster final last in year in CP. Think they were the majority v the runners up fans.
if is anything like that again could be a sea of red.
At least Portlaoise is a handy ground to get to and back from, compared to most grounds.

Doesn’t matter which division should be a tight championship game. One former Leinster winner, one current winner. If I was neutral I would watch on telly if it was on. But since it is on GAA+ the neutrals, would think twice.

It will be interesting to see which matches turn out to be most exciting Ulster, Leinster or Munster ?

Kerry must have the same amount of provincial titles(14) as Dublin over last 15 years. They will overtake this when beat Cork in two weeks while Dublin lose to Louth.

In Leinster Meath, Kildare, Offaly and Louth have prominent at u20/minor in recent years.

Kerry are dominant are all levels in football in Munster. Cork teams might win on a rare ocassion.

What will save the Munster football championship?

It will be a very weak championship if Dublin win it this year going by what I have watched so far this year .

Louth are favourites . Hopefully we can give them a game.

Not sure if you have watched Dublin this year,we are a bang average side and Louth would be favs in my view .It remains to be seen if any Leinster team is capable of really winning a big knockout game later in the championship, I would doubt that at the moment .

Well you must need a trip to specsavers to read your book properly, Louth are big big favorites for this match , Sure Wicklow should have beaten a very weak Dublin , the weakest Dublin team in a very long time.