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

Well Deano will not be in goal next day .while Hugh was poor for two goals the defence in front of him was all at sea but we should have been well in front if the other players played anyway better and not have given Louth the real boost of a nine or ten point turnaround in under ten mins of the second half .I feel sorry for Dean he is no way ready for the job he is trying to do .

We will have to get in more expierence in the management for next year .this year is gone,I hold the county board responsible for that.It could get worse as surely some of the remaining lads with medals will go as this year looks a total failure .

Hard to understand that with all the clubs and some of them are big that they would not have at least one above average player that would be up to inter county standard every year or so .

There will be more at the hurling next weekend. I was thinking the last time Dublin had poor crowds was between 63 and 74. In those 70’s documentaries . Dublin players said they would be embarrassed to say they played for the Dubs until Heffo changed it.

I don’t know how bad the pre Heffo management days were not much footage. But this current Dublin panel is the weakest in my lifetime, by miles. And I remember the 80’s so that’s the worst Dublin team in over 40 years.

Amazing to go from the best Dublin team ever, and the best team in the history of the game ,to this.

If someone said after Dessie left it would go this far downhill, you would have said, they are mad. Talk about.a dream Turning into a nightmare.

It seems like a different world when league football matches were played in Parnell.
It must have been demoralising for the Dublin players to see such a poor crowd yesterday, before a ball is thrown in.
Dublins average over the last 20 years league and championship was about 32k. Basically around 15,000 fans have had enough on average per game now.

Only a hardcore left. And I was at it . but was in no real humour of going, to be honest. Think was one of the rare times I was late for a throw in . 8th minute on clock.

Will be a real clear out of players at the end of this season. I am starting to worry would Dublin survive in div 2? You know things are very bad when even Paul Flynn is negatively critical of the Dublin team.

In my mind a “poor” Dublin side is last 8 at best 10th at worst . This team is probably 14th and looking like falling further. Thank God for the hurlers!

Best thing I did was start following the hurlers properly from 2005. Leinster minor win. Knew something was bubbling, you could sense a vibrancy, a confidence, so kept a close watch.

KK were in the Senior Leinster (as usual that year) . I still remember a comment from a KK woman behind me. As the young Dubs paraded around with the cup she said “You would swear they won an all Ireland” . She had no feeling for what it meant for Dublin hurling.

Then fast forward to 2011 that league win for the hurlers was (for me) up there with the footballers winning Sam in terms of achievement. I know the Leinster title was won 2013. And a few AI Semi-Finals. But to me the two turning points were that minor Leinster win in 2005 and that league 2011.

The Dublin core hurling crowd are a different set compared to the football crowd. More realistic, less fair weather. And seem to aware how many of the so called “traditional counties” are dismissive of Dublin. Because there are so few hurling fans you always see the same faces, in or around the same spots.

In fairness, the reason that it's barely a fifth full is because it's the Dublin fans choice not to attend. It's not some external force keeping them away. If I was at a championship match in McHale Park in Mayo, and there was only approx 5,000 people there out of max capacity of 25,000, I would be angry with the Mayo people for not getting off their arses to go to the match.

Someone has hit a sore nerve 🤗

You're obviously a fairweather supporter, and you weren't at the matches from 2011 to 2019, especially Dublin's big matches against Kerry and Mayo during those years. Semi-finals were packed, and mostly Dubs fans. I was there for them There was a massive wall of sound when the Dublin team got their scores.

So, that is rubbish to say that Dublin never had a fanbase. During those years, Dublin had the GAA buzz, and had a large following. Like yourself, many must have been fairweather, and haven't the committment any more to support the team. That's everyone's prerogative. But it's really silly to come out blaming the atmosphere in the stadium for the demise of the Dublin mens intercounty team.

It's nothing to do with Dublin being the capital that there should be more supporters than other teams. It's to do with population. Population of Dublin is approx. 1.5m. Even if half of those are dismissed straight-away as being blow-ins, foreign nationals etc. That still leaves around 750,000. Population of Westmeath is less than 100,000. Yet they outnumbered Dublin supporters last week.

To be fair to Dublin supporters all the same, support and attendance has always been a bit give and take.

Over the last few years, it has all been negative around Dublin. Our best players retiring. Quite a few at surprisingly young ages. Results going downhill and poor performances.

You get the feeling that something positive needs to happen to get the fans back into it. Either one or two new stars or maybe a style of play that actually brings some decent results.

But when you’re getting relegated and beat by the likes of Westmeath and Louth and even struggling against Wicklow, people find it harder to get behind them.

And I know some people will say that that’s not support and you’d be largely quite right. I just mean that people need something to work with.

I would have thought that if Stevo has being talking to the keepers after several months and quite a few matches that some sort of plan or improvement would be on display but looks like nothing has been really done .