Dublin GAA Discussion Thread - 2013

Defiler Of The Coffin wrote: »

I wouldn't say Dublin are light years ahead of all the other counties, I think all the work that the Dublin County Board has put in over the years in both codes has come to fruition but you can't draw a line from the sponsorship money and say that Dublin have suddenly become invincible. Once you are below a certain population threshold it's hard to say what effect money has on the development of a team. If Leitrim were to come into say, €1m tomorrow, how good could they reasonably expect to get given the structures they have and still only a population of 30,000? It would be a good number of years before they would be challenging for Connacht even.

Just shows what winning an All-Ireland can do for a team, its 'brand' and 'marketability'. Given Dublin's population and success in recent years it's hard to see the money train slowing down any time soon.

The sponsorship that Dublin gets can pay for a huge amount of coaching, development squads, strength and conditioning coaches and programs, pay for coaching jobs for players without jobs/create summer work for younger players to keep them at home.

Parnell Park holds 12,000 people. It also host a lot of club games that the likes of Fitzgerald Stadium and Pairc Ui Chaoimh would rarely host, so its maintenance & upkeep wouldn't come cheap. It also doesn't have the concert revenue generating potential for the county boards that the likes of Pairc Ui Chaoimh, the Gaelic Grounds and Nowlan Park have.

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Let's not forget the huge new facilities opened up in Derry (€3.5 million), Kerry (€5.8 million) and Tyrone (€7.8 million). This deal, worth less per annum than the Vodafone one, gives Dublin a fighting financial chance.

Isn't the GAA building a €9M Centre of Excellence for Dublin in Blanchardstown?

Oasis_Dublin wrote: »

Don't forget, all the money that us h*roin obsessed c*k* sniffers pay into Leinster quarter-finals in Croke Park is evenly redistributed by the Leinster Council.

This stuff? Really?

keane2097 wrote: »

Isn't the GAA building a €9M Centre of Excellence for Dublin in Blanchardstown?



This stuff? Really?

The centre in Blanchardstown, if it happens, will be open to all Leinster counties. It will also be part of a national facility, like Abbotstown, rather than a Dublin-only facility.

I'm merely reflecting a widely held dislike of Dublin. Do I have a chip on my shoulder? Perhaps. Or else I've been on boards.ie for five years, and read the ridiculous comments of non-Dubs under thejournal.ie's (possibly thescore.ie) article about the AIG deal.

Is that something you photoshopped yourself, or is it legit?

I certainly hope so. Am loving the no red on it, but the logo is waaaaaaay too big.

Decobuzz wrote: »

Heroin, coke sniffing scumbags? That's what us Dublin GAA supporters are if you read Kildare forums

Not at the same time tho :rolleyes: .....

This type of guff comes with the territory ... Dublin along with the northern counties have always divided opinion .. there's very little Dublin detractors can snipe at on the playing field at the moment, so they have to look elsewhere and I certainly wouldn't go hyper-sensitive on the whole thing .. one look at Res and you'll find we give as good as we get. Ta

Colm Cooper announced as the Player Of The Month for September. WTF??? :mad::mad::mad:

Utter joke shop of a decision imo. He was great in one half of one game, but when Cian O'Sullivan was put on him, he was no where near as successful in the second half. And oh yeah, Kerry went on to lose the flippin' game. :rolleyes:

How on earth can they give it to Cooper, when the likes of Bernard Brogan scored 2-9 in two games that Dublin would not have won without him & who was the Man Of The Match in the All Ireland final? Or MDMA, who was so influential all year long, but whose amazing dive to lay the ball off to Kevin Mac in the semifinal was the winning of the game? Or Lee Keegan, who was so impressive in the Al final. I don't understand giving it to Cooper it, over all of them. I really don't.

Yeah, its given out every month from May onwards apparently. No idea who awards it. Is it some committee in Croke Park, or journalists or what?

League fixtures (from res dubs forum)


Dublin NFL1 fixtures:

01/02/2014 Kerry - Croke Park
09/02/2014 Westmeath - Cusack Park
01/03/2014 Cork - Croke Park
07/03/2014 Kildare - Croke Park (Friday night lights)
16/03/2014 Derry - Celtic Park
29/03/2014 Mayo - Croke Park
06/04/2014 Tyrone - Healy Park

What's the Crack with Mayo being in CP this year, does it not rotate

corny wrote: »

Hurling fixtures done yet?

Sure they can't even decide on a league format

Decobuzz wrote: »

Heroin, coke sniffing scumbags? That's what us Dublin GAA supporters are if you read Kildare forums

Having watched them play in the League against Dublin last year I thought they were on drugs,,,,, sleeping drugs. The day the Dubs start to worry about what the flour bags of Kildare have to say about us is the day we can pack it in. Let them stick to the Horses & Sheep and the "Bradys" ham, we'll play the football