Dublin as has been said use DCU for their training. Any facility that is in Dublin is also available to players from other counties. Sure didnât a few inter county players from other counties piss off a soccer club in Dublin after they ploughed up their pitch.
Havenât Tyrone built a centre of excellence for 6.5 million or so?
Armagh players that played for na fianna in dublin werent complaining of the travel when they were competing for All Irelands, i think their physio did or one of their back room staff because he would be travelling up and down checking on them.
As for the population, Gaa clubâs in Dublin have to compete with soccer and rugby unlike most other counties except probably Limerick. On top of that there is the issue of Dublin clubs having inter county players from other counties playing for them pushing out the local player. I bet not many clubs in Tyrone have that problem.
So no my head is not in the sand as you implied. You as usual just have tunnel vision and no clue as the problems facing the gaa in dublin and are just on spouting your usual nonsense.
As for taken pleasure in the hammering that Dublin gave Tyrone, yes I am going take great pleasure in it considering the beatings and gloating we had to endure from Tyrone supporters when Tyrone was hammering Dublin.
Dublin Population is 1.5m but in a metropolis that size you will have lots of competitors for GAA - soccer, rugby, tennis, gymnastics, athletics, MmA, boxing, hockey, sex, drugs, rock n roll. In rural Ireland you have GAA.
Dublin is GAA country in spite of it being the capital city and not because of it.
I think Mayo have a serious chance of beating Dublin.
There has been nothing between the sides for the last 5 years. 3 Dublin wins,1 Mayo win and 2 x Draws. All Dublin wins and indeed Mayoâs 2012 win were by the minimum 1 point margin.
Dublin under Jim Gavin have never lost a final but they have also never played well in a final.
2013-Dublin very poor all through and finished the game with 13 fit players.
2015- A very average performance against Kerry in the rain. We were lucky Kerry were worse.
2016. Poor performance both days. The first half of the drawn game was an absolutely abject display
Dublin have yet to be tested this year. Leinster, Monaghan and Tyrone were all beaten before the ball was thrown in. Mayo most certainly will not.
Mayoâs form against second rate teams is often patchy. However this Mayo team almost always perform against Dublin and Kerry. Some of their key players are in better form than they were last year. Colm Boyle, Kevin McLoughlin, Andy Moran and Jason Doherty⌠Lee Keegan admittedly is not going as well as last year.
Mayo are demented with the hunger. Dublin for all their talents cannot have that same hunger. Personally I really admire this Mayo team. They are box office, resilient and a joy to behold in full flow. If they were to win the outpouring of joy would be epic. Stewards and Polish security guards would get swatted out of the way like Kerry corner backs in the inevitable pitch invasion.That cunt Peter McKenna would be seething. If we are to lose an All Ireland to anyone let it be these lads.
Iâm sure the near two hour commute for Longford players is very much of use.
They did and funded the bulk of it themselves.
Travel is a problem Dublin players need not worry about. Armagh players may not have complained about it but it will never be an issue Dublin players will have to or not have to complain about.
There are 39,000 registered GAA players in Dublin. There are 10,000 registered GAA players in Tyrone.
You seem very testy about establishing facts around the advantages Dublin enjoy over the rest of the country in GAA terms.
But thatâs not what you said originally. You said they receive more funding than the rest of the country combined. Now youâve moved the goalposts to say itâs less than what Leinster as a province receive.
You seem to be concentrating on semantics rather than the overlying theme that Dublin received disproportionate funding compared to the rest of the counties in the country.
All these things to tip the balance massively are calculated to keep the Dublin supporters filling Croke Park. This is well thought through. 2010 was the year the gaa was infiltrated with the money suits, the year they put the barricades in Croke Park. Christy Cooney and that weasely bastard from Monaghan toyed with the fabric of the Gaa and it is now irreversible. Sky deal another example.
There is a dark element controlling our association now. Itâs all about profit now for the suits.
So Dublin have a population of 1.5 million but only have 39,000 registered players. Think about that. That is not even close to a quarter of the population. Which goes to show how much competition there is for dublin Gaa which other counties wouldnât face.
You should try driving around Dublin in rush hour sometime. Iâd say Con OâCallaghan and Mick Fitzsimons travelling over from Cuala probably have to leave around lunch time for the 20 mile trip across town to Parnell Park for training at 7pm.
Parnell Park is Dublinâs home ground. Its guaranteed in the hurling regardless of whether its Galway or Waterford that win, but we could be looking at a hurling/football double of counties that never get to play a championship game at their home ground. What a triumph over adversity that would be.
Yet they have four times the number of registered players Mayo and Tyrone have. They have probably more resources to be able to stave off the AFL vultures from stealing their brightest talents too.
