Well regardless of the up to date figures, which generally donât change, the incorrect perception of Croke park being the biggest pitch in the country is one that keeps being rolled out for some reason. turf conditions? Meh.
Wouldnât disagree with your point in general, but thatâs more to do the size of the grounds of Croke park and the sizeable and vocal support. Familiarity with the whole match day routine also helps. But those advantages only help a team that is already very good.
I would be skeptical of the Nowlan Park dimensions listed there. It is a long field but it is a fairly narrow pitch
of course, dublin have their shit fully together, those advantages didnât help them dominate any other decade even if I think the turf helps hugely. I always knew their were longer grounds just thought it was one of the widest. The numbers and types of kids they have playing is the unbeatable advantage, the well off well fed well taken care of suburban kids who will be driven to every game, see a physio if needs be etc, gives a massive playing pool.They could easily go to kilkenny levels of dominance.
You forgot the dimensions of the new pitch out in the national centre of excellence. The pitch out there is suppose to be exact same as the pitch in Croke park. Surely all teams from around the country can use the facility.
i canât understand the opposition to splitting dublin, nortsiders, southsiders and d4 fairies all dislike each other anyway, imagine having a leinster final between fingal and south/west dublin, itâd be off the chain
Nobody gives a fuck about bogball in Fingal
http://www.livegaelic.com/features/myth-wide-open-spaces-croke-park/
Was trying to find some article about how Cody requested that the groundsmen made sure Nowlan park the same size as Croke park. But plenty of info to say those figures are correct
Croke Park plays completely differently than any other GAA pitch in the country. That is a distinct advantage to Dublin.
Mayo have pushed Dublin all the way over the past four years. Dethroning them as All Ireland champions in 2012, losing by just 1 point in 2013 final and bringing them to a replay in last yearâs semi final. Would suspect theyâve missed the boat and are past it by now.
Tyrone havenât been a factor in the championship this decade and after a winter/spring in the second tier, its utter nonsense to talk about Tyrone beating Dublin.
@Gman those stats are dodgy. No way the gaelic grounds is 137m long. That would mean the 65 lines were just 7m apart which is not the case.
The Gaelic Grounds is massive
Yes. I have spent scary time in full backlines there and no other defender within 40 yards to help.
Canât say I had a measuring tape like rocko did today when getting those figures, but I just put a search into google there and it comes up at being 137m long on any results that have it.