Dublin GAA Discussion Thread - Capital Punishment

Billy Mays · 09-04-2019 10:53am

Parnell Passes open for renewal

ProudDUB · 10-04-2019 7:05pm

Tonight's games are on yer telly boxes...well, sort of....

https://twitter.com/DubGAAOfficial/status/1116038638410895360?s=19

DoctaDee · 11-04-2019 12:35pm

Billy Mays wrote: »

Parnell Passes open for renewal

Done and dusted €284 winging it's way to Parnell Park - now to send the kids out begging to get the mortgage payment together for Friday

#prioritiesintherightplace

Slattsy · 11-04-2019 3:08pm

DoctaDee wrote: »

Done and dusted €284 winging it's way to Parnell Park - now to send the kids out begging to get the mortgage payment together for Friday #prioritiesintherightplace

You could always send the wife ou.................. no - best not go there :pac:

ProudDUB · 11-04-2019 5:46pm

DoctaDee wrote: »

Done and dusted €284 winging it's way to Parnell Park - now to send the kids out begging to get the mortgage payment together for Friday #prioritiesintherightplace

Houses come and go. Banks come and go. Mortgages come and go. Wives come and go. Kids....well, they fcuk off to Thailand in their so called 'gap' year & turn up 5 years later, broke, dodgy Russian boyfriend in tow, thinking they know it all.

But being on the Hill when the Dubs do the five in a row for the first time...you'll never get to experience that again. Best money you'll spend all year.

Seligehgit really, really, really wants to thank this post.

seligehgit · 11-04-2019 7:13pm

ProudDUB wrote: »

Houses come and go. Banks come and go. Mortgages come and go. Wives come and go. Kids....well, they fcuk off to Thailand in their so called 'gap' year & turn up 5 years later, broke, dodgy Russian boyfriend in tow, thinking they know it all.

But being on the Hill when the Dubs do the five in a row for the first time...you'll never get to experience that again. Best money you'll spend all year.

I was all set to thank that post while LOL until you concocted that second paragraph.:D

KevinK · 13-04-2019 7:22pm

Anyone have the teams in Kilmacud Ballymount match?

Squareball · 15-04-2019 7:30pm

Surprised at the lack of chat about the club championships on here........

Anyone see the TG4 coverage on Saturday. I thought it was first class, just a shame the result of the 2nd game was what it was.

Bonniedog · 15-04-2019 8:29pm

Didn't see any of them, even on telly. Surprised that Raheny only drew. that was game they really needed to win in all likelihood or will miss the play offs again.

You have to feel for Ballymun. Despite the wealth of current and recent Dublin players, they have very unDublin/Gavin habit of losing games on the sideline. That's going by other accounts I've seen and heard.

ROC seems to be back with a bang. Wonder is it too late for him to come onto the Summer panel? And if so at whose expense. Philly perhaps.

D9Male · 15-04-2019 11:01pm

I would fancy Raheny to beat Plunkett's. That's an interesting group.

Na Fianna looked brilliant against Syls. I would fancy them to beat Kickhams in the final game in that group.

Group 2 and 3 look the easiest to predict. Lucan and Ballyboden; Vincent's and Castleknock.

Croke's v Lucan
Vincent's v Raheny
Ballyboden v Na Fianna
St Jude's v Castleknock

EICVD · 24-04-2019 9:37pm

Anyone head out to Parnell Park last night for the minors LFC opener against Meath? Was a good competitive game. Winning of the game was bringing on a ‘new’ full forward for the second half. Luke Swan from Castleknock I think. Every time the ball went in to him he looked dangerous & the Meath full back who had a good first half couldn’t get near him. He probably should have had a penalty as well as getting the final goal to seal it. Other players who stood out for me was the #6 & the #14 with his frees.

gormdubhgorm · 24-04-2019 10:58pm

D9Male wrote: »

I would fancy Raheny to beat Plunkett's. That's an interesting group.

That was my first thought when I saw the group. I think Raheny have the players they just lack the belief. A Raheny clubman was telling me that thier lack of depth is the problem. But I don't buy that.
With the former Dublin minors from the 2011-ish era and Fenton plus Howard they should be "the best of the rest" overall at the very least imo.

Past30Now · 25-04-2019 4:08pm

EICVD wrote: »

Anyone head out to Parnell Park last night for the minors LFC opener against Meath? Was a good competitive game. Winning of the game was bringing on a ‘new’ full forward for the second half. Luke Swan from Castleknock I think. Every time the ball went in to him he looked dangerous & the Meath full back who had a good first half couldn’t get near him. He probably should have had a penalty as well as getting the final goal to seal it. Other players who stood out for me was the #6 & the #14 with his frees.

He was brilliant last year in both codes for Dublin, despite being U16 last year. Works very hard. I'd imagine he'd start the next day out.

downthemiddle · 25-04-2019 9:22pm

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

That was my first thought when I saw the group. I think Raheny have the players they just lack the belief. A Raheny clubman was telling me that thier lack of depth is the problem. But I don't buy that.
With the former Dublin minors from the 2011-ish era and Fenton plus Howard they should be "the best of the rest" overall at the very least imo.

Raheny looked far removed from a top team last night. They scored 1-3 in the last 50 mins against a Judes team shorn of the majority of their defence. They looked poorly coached and poorly conditioned. They lacked leadership on the pitch and showed no creativity.
Despite the fact that he scored two goals, Brian Howard's performance was embarassing. He looked more interested in causing a row than playing football. If the officials had treated him like other players on the pitch he would not have finished the game. He pulled two players down off the ball, hand tripped another and was the third man in to an incident going high on a Jude's player in the process. He could learn a lot from Kev Mac's approach to the game last night.

conor05 · 26-04-2019 11:56am

Lads just a quick one for the Dublin v Wexford hurling match in Parnell Park.

Went online there to get the pre match price for myself and my 4 year old.

All stand tickets seem to be gone so the option is Church terrace or golf side terrace.

Which of these terraces would have best view of Match and for a child??

Thanks in advance

copacetic · 26-04-2019 2:24pm

Not great options for a small child. Church side maybe slightly better sheltered from normal winds.

Bonniedog · 26-04-2019 3:01pm

Get in early and you might get a spot for the child on the wall on golf club side.

Unless that has become another victim of H & S!

ProudDUB · 26-04-2019 3:53pm

Church end. It's very well covered & sheltered. You can sit the young fella on top of one of the crowd barrier thingys & he'll have a grand view of the pitch. Pick a spot in one of the corners. If you go in behind the goal, you are v close to the pitch & the nets are just an arms length away. It can really block the view when you're up that close to them. Chance your arm when you arrive & ask if they'll let you into the stand, as you've a chisler with you. They may very well do. Stewards are much sounder there than in Croker.

conor05 · 26-04-2019 5:24pm

Thanks lads fair play il go to church end and chance arm first with the wee man in the stand.

Cheers

EICVD · 26-04-2019 11:38pm

Past30Now wrote: »

He was brilliant last year in both codes for Dublin, despite being U16 last year. Works very hard. I'd imagine he'd start the next day out.

Can’t say I knew much about any of this panel until I read up on it the day after. I see he’s named at full forward for the hurlers so that might explain the half game the other night

OldMrBrennan83 · 30-04-2019 7:49am

O'Carroll is back on the panel apparently.

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/dublin-handed-big-boost-ahead-of-five-inarow-bid-as-all-star-rory-ocarroll-rejoins-panel-38063117.html

Slattsy · 30-04-2019 8:36am

Twas a no brainer really.

Nidgeweasel · 01-05-2019 7:59am

Paul Flynn has retired from inter county football.

MFPM · 01-05-2019 8:01am

Nidgeweasel wrote: »

Paul Flynn has retired from inter county football.

Just heard that - odd timing. Can only be injury related or else Gavin has indicated he won't get game time in the summer. Thought he had a few decent performances when he came on in the league.

edit: I see it's related to a back injury.

ProudDUB · 01-05-2019 8:06am

The word legend doesn't do him justice.

Slattsy · 01-05-2019 8:36am

Easily one of the best pound for pound players that ever played football.

BonnieSituation · 01-05-2019 9:26am

By far my favourite player to ever don the blue.

Absolutely magnificent. A joy.

Bonniedog · 01-05-2019 9:32am

He was part of some of the great days. One point in the 2015 final when it was still in the balance comes to mind. Sent a waterfall of rain down from the netting behind the goals!

And another day when some gorilla tried to stop him bringing the cup over to the little girl who used to sit in the lower Cusack.

muddle84 · 01-05-2019 10:14am

Happy retirement Paul Flynn, a fantastic footballer that i always hated to see on the pitch against us, but loved watching against other teams!!!

Rory O'Carroll back to sort out Seamus Darby

D9Male · 01-05-2019 10:32am

For some reason, my main memory of Flynn is in one of the few losing games we had in the Championship recently.

In the first 25 minutes against Donegal in the 2014 semi-final, he shot 4 brilliant points from distance and it seemed we would make fools of Donegal's massed defence by picking them off from the edge of the 45.

What a fool I was in hindsight, but Flynn did his part clinically.

mystic86 · 01-05-2019 10:54am

I see Paul Flynn retires with 6 All-Irelands, I was wondering who else is on 6, this is what I came up with:

Michael Darragh MacAuley
Stephen Cluxton
Bernard Brogan
Michael Fitzsimons
James McCarthy
Phily McMahon
Kevin McManamon
Cian O'Sullivan

Anyone else?

Also, are all of those still on the current Dublin panel?

Gael85 · 01-05-2019 11:34am

mystic86 wrote: »

I see Paul Flynn retires with 6 All-Irelands, I was wondering who else is on 6, this is what I came up with:

Michael Darragh MacAuley
Stephen Cluxton
Bernard Brogan
Michael Fitzsimons
James McCarthy
Phily McMahon
Kevin McManamon
Cian O'Sullivan

Anyone else?

Also, are all of those still on the current Dublin panel?

Eoghan O'Gara

Stoner · 01-05-2019 12:04pm

@Gael85

Of that 2011 team who had come through Gavin with junior and U21 AI wins

U21

Junior AI

corny · 01-05-2019 12:12pm

mystic86 wrote: »

I see Paul Flynn retires with 6 All-Irelands, I was wondering who else is on 6, this is what I came up with:

Michael Darragh MacAuley
Stephen Cluxton
Bernard Brogan
Michael Fitzsimons
James McCarthy
Phily McMahon
Kevin McManamon
Cian O'Sullivan

Anyone else?

Also, are all of those still on the current Dublin panel?

Was Darren Daly on the panel in 2011?

castletownman · 01-05-2019 12:43pm

Was Paddy Andrews on the 2011 panel? Seems to have been around an age.

As for Flynn, definitely in the shake-up for one of the greatest wing-forwards of all-time. More understated (and less of a fanfare) compared to Connolly but I say he was the first name on the team-sheet. Incredible engine and well able to take a score.

I would perhaps rank only Michael Donnellan higher, and certainly would have him ahead of Galvin and Dooher from my lifetime. And this coming from someone with no affiliation at all with Dublin.

Bonniedog · 01-05-2019 12:46pm

Understated is a good description. Same as Bastick, did a pile of work, and did his job efficiently,

I wonder might he have stayed on longer if he hadn't his current job?

gormdubhgorm · 01-05-2019 1:08pm

mystic86 wrote: »

I see Paul Flynn retires with 6 All-Irelands, I was wondering who else is on 6, this is what I came up with:

Michael Darragh MacAuley
Stephen Cluxton
Bernard Brogan
Michael Fitzsimons
James McCarthy
Phily McMahon
Kevin McManamon
Cian O'Sullivan

Anyone else?

Also, are all of those still on the current Dublin panel?

This wikipedia article lists players who have 'played in finals' it might be some sort of help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship_winning_players

Strangely there is no list of all-ireland football medal winners, but there is only a list of the hurling equivalent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_All-Ireland_Senior_Hurling_Championship_medal_winners

The football list must have been hacked by a Mayo person?

Stoner · 01-05-2019 1:50pm

corny wrote:

Was Darren Daly on the panel in 2011?

No

He was one of the lads Gavin brought in. I could wrong but I think he's a 2013 draft

He's a player like Bastic, O'Gara, Fitzsimmons, Cooper and Flynn that won a junior AI Gavin

I think it was 6 with 4 making the 2011 panel and Cooper and Daly coming into the backs in 2013.

That's a serious amount of players from a junior AI team (ignoring the Kerry set up)

Gael85 · 01-05-2019 2:10pm

Darren Daly and Paddy Andrews were dropped after league final in 2011.

Gael85 · 01-05-2019 2:13pm

Stoner wrote: »

@Gael85

Of that 2011 team who had come through Gavin with junior and U21 AI wins

U21

Junior AI

Of 2011 team Rory O'Carroll and James McCarthy had u21 AI medals from 2010.
Bastick,Fitzsimons and O'Gara won Junior AI in 08.

Gael85 · 01-05-2019 2:18pm

Stoner wrote: »

No

He was one of the lads Gavin brought in. I could wrong but I think he's a 2013 draft

He's a player like Bastic, O'Gara, Fitzsimmons, Cooper and Flynn that won a junior AI Gavin

I think it was 6 with 4 making the 2011 panel and Cooper and Daly coming into the backs in 2013.

That's a serious amount of players from a junior AI team (ignoring the Kerry set up)

Flynn didn't win Junior AI. He was playing senior that year.

It is pity Dublin haven't entered junior championship for about 6/7 now.

Stoner · 01-05-2019 2:25pm

Gael85 wrote:

Flynn didn't win Junior AI. He was playing senior that year.

I thought he did. I thought there was another from the U21 team too,

Had a look at that Junior team (you are bang on as usual) Darren Homan, a serious footballer, possibly the best partnership with Whelan that senior team had. Always wondered why he stopped playing senior football due to injury yet went all the way later on with the Juniors.

JustJoe7240 · 01-05-2019 2:29pm

Bonniedog wrote: »

Understated is a good description. Same as Bastick, did a pile of work, and did his job efficiently,

I wonder might he have stayed on longer if he hadn't his current job?

Nothing to suggest work commitments was his reason for dropping off the team. Cited injury as the reason in his personal statement.

Phenomenal player, Huge work rate and was well able to step up and kick big scores when it mattered.

Bonniedog · 01-05-2019 2:30pm

Stoner wrote: »

I thought he did. I thought there was another from the U21 team too,

Had a look at that Junior team (you are bang on as usual) Darren Homan, a serious footballer, possibly the best partnership with Whelan that senior team had. Always wondered why he stopped playing senior football due to injury yet went all the way later on with the Juniors.

That thought crossed my mind too.

Having read The Chaos Years, I wonder had it to do not only with the injury - which was bad granted - but also with some of the other issues highlighted in the book.

Darren was a great bit of stuff and did not get the sort of back up he ought to have when Armagh targeted him. It was great to see him getting some sort of an All Ireland for his troubles.

gormdubhgorm · 01-05-2019 3:58pm

Stoner wrote: »

I thought he did. I thought there was another from the U21 team too,

Had a look at that Junior team (you are bang on as usual) Darren Homan, a serious footballer, possibly the best partnership with Whelan that senior team had. Always wondered why he stopped playing senior football due to injury yet went all the way later on with the Juniors.

Homan was a very underrated footballer. Did Coman Goggins play for Roscommon in that 2008 junior final against Dublin or am I imagining it?

ProudDUB · 01-05-2019 6:35pm

Gael85 wrote: »

Darren Daly and Paddy Andrews were dropped after league final in 2011.

Incorrectomundo.

DD got an AI medal in 2011.

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/fingalindependent/news/allireland-medal-for-daly-27814391.html

DoctaDee · 01-05-2019 8:35pm

Just got a reminder about renewing Parnell Pass, which I did in early April - have any of you guys received your 2019/20 ones yet? Ta

Billy Mays · 01-05-2019 9:27pm

Not yet. Mates haven't got them either

ProudDUB · 01-05-2019 9:30pm

No sign of mine either. Maybe they post them all out in bulk, in one go, when renewals have closed, instead of posting them out in drips and drabs? Renewals don't close for another 2 weeks.

donkey balls · 01-05-2019 11:44pm

A few of us got an E mail today reminding us that the renewal date closes on Monday 13th May, Even though we all ready renewed I assume it was just a generic mail sent to all members.

Could you imagine forgetting to renew the pass :eek:

Dublin GAA Discussion Thread - Capital Punishment

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