commonsense. wrote: » Originally Posted by BKWDR View Post In fairness to Connolly, for a game that was practically over in the first 15 minutes he can be forgiven for taking his foot off the pedal in an early champo game against poor opposition. He's been full tilt for both club (both codes) and county now for onwards of two years. I agree with BKWRD. A meaningless game over after 10 minutes. Why would Connolly bust a gut risking injury when he is a nailed on starter. Don't agree that it sends a bad message to other players. Everybody on that Dublin panel will know their spot in the pecking order and what they need to do to move up the ranks. If that means some lads have to try harder than Connolly in a total mismatch so be it.
WhatNowForUs? wrote: » If he's not fit enough to go at it 100% then he shouldn't be started. Complacency cannot be aloud to seep in.
CurryFlavoured wrote: » If it was most others you'd probably give them the BOTD, but Connolly has priors for going into cruise control when the game is seemingly dead so it isn't good to see.
corny wrote: » Gonna throw another grenade in here;) and say its not just in the meaningless games his workrate isn't up to scratch. Despite his contribution on the scoreboard last year i felt he was the first one to give up on chasing the Donegal runners. All in the head too if i'm right because he's one of the finest athletes in the GAA.
commonsense. wrote: » Fair points but maybe that flaw is just part of his football DNA. In other words DC and all his flaws come as a package, you can't pick and choose those football traits that you like and discard the ones you don't like. Are there any complete players out there. Does the complete player exist. Not in my view. Every player has areas that in theory could be improved on. DC, warts and all is going to be in the team all day every day. In accepting that fact maybe we have to accept that he has failings in his game. One of those failing is his inability to drive himself for 70 minutes.
Just An Opinion wrote: » Cracking game of hurling in Parnell Park, real shame for our U21 hurlers just to miss out at the death. GAA really need to look at allowing the fecking sun be involved in such tight games, totally unfair how it impeded our goalkeeper for that late goal, total over haul needed, maybe a big roof over Parnell Park for future sunny evenings.
Just An Opinion wrote: » Cracking game of hurling in Parnell Park, real shame for our U21 hurlers just to miss out at the death. GAA really need to look at allowing the fecking sun be involved in such tight games, totally unfair how it impeded our goalkeeper for that late goal, total over haul needed, maybe a big roof over Parnell Park for future sunny evenings.On a serious note, great to see our hurlers competing on this level, not quite at the Kilkenny level of the game yet but pushing them to the wire like this is something we could only have dreamed of 5 years ago!
Nidgeweasel wrote: » Christ.
corny wrote: » If you have a weak left foot you don't accept it, you work at it and you could spend a lifetime working at it for not much gain. A simple attitude adjustment is child's play by comparison.
commonsense. wrote: » If it's that simple, why hasn't it been adjusted?
commonsense. wrote: » DC, warts and all is going to be in the team all day every day.
Kavrocks wrote: » This is complete nonsense. The ease of improving ones sporting ability or changing ones attitude is highly dependent on the specific person in question and their current circumstances. If improving your weaker foot is so hard how come (for instance) Paul Flynn was able to improve his in 1 summer? Or if a 'simple' attitude adjustment is so easy how come everybody in the world isn't perfect or Diarmuid has changed his?
Billy Mays wrote: » Some nonsense being spouted on this page. Our most talented footballer should be threatened with being dropped because he didn't run his b0ll0cks off against a Longford team who were beaten after 10 minutes
Dangerous Man wrote: » I kind of agree with this actually. There is little point in running yourself into the ground when you know what the outcome is going to be; I'd bet dollars to dimes he'd cover every inch of Croker if he was playing against the lads from Kerry. No doubt.
billyhead wrote: » No player is bigger then the team no matter how talented he is. DC coasting through games should not be tolerated. If he is unwilling to put the effort in he should be dropped. Its as simple as that. Other players willing to break their balls for the team no matter who the opposition is or how the game is going is what we need. If he continues with a similar performance the next day he should be taken off or dropped to the bench and give someone else a chance. I would like to see Conor McHugh given a game for the experience and to see how he gets on or Cormac Costello more game time
Bret Hart wrote: » Bring on Laois or Kikdare,we'll have them blown away by the 10th minute. COYBIB.
TouchingVirus wrote: » Leinster is rubbish, we can all agree on that. There is no real satisfaction in any victory in the province. 9 out of 10 Leinsters makes for sorry reading if you want competitive football - and who doesn't? Barring us not showing up in a particular match we won't have a real game until it's too late to recover. Nobody needs reminding about 2014 but the conditions are ripe for it happening in 2015 too. For me the hurling is far, far more interesting and has been for a while. I'm enthralled at our team, a team who can beat anybody on their good day, seems to stuff it so often :P It's heartbreaking to watch and at times I think I'm a masochist but it's incredibly exciting to watch any hurling match with Dublin in it for me. I'll be there in Tullamore tomorrow, hopefully putting the finishing touches to Galway this time around. And if it doesn't happen at least I can leave knowing there's something worth fighting for!
corny wrote: » Just home. Sobering experience. Lack of intensity and drive in the first 15 minutes was staggering. Galway crowd behind me were fun. Never heard such unsporting people.
