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.
wirelessdude01 wrote: » 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.
ProudDUB wrote: » 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.
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.
keane2097 wrote: » Isn't the GAA building a €9M Centre of Excellence for Dublin in Blanchardstown? This stuff? Really?
Decobuzz wrote: » Heroin, coke sniffing scumbags? That's what us Dublin GAA supporters are if you read Kildare forums
Decobuzz wrote: » Photoshopped. The pic is from the launch of the current jersey last year
ProudDUB wrote: » 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 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 & oh yeah, 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? I don't get it. I really don't.
Stoner wrote: » What's the Crack with Mayo being in CP this year, does it not rotate
sgarvan wrote: » I believe that every two years they jumble up the home/away pattern and start again.
corny wrote: » Hurling fixtures done yet?
toffeeshel wrote: » 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
