Ah that’s the problem, you are clueless. 4 different winners in the last 10 years.
2013 Ballinderry
2018 Coleraine
2019 Magherafelt
2020 Slaughtneil
Indeed. I can well understand why you wouldn’t take any interest in Down or Derry club football, thats for those with an interest in winning Ulster club titles and representing the province with pride.
No excuse for a psychological blip. No crowd. Played Dublin a few weeks previously. Played a Leinster Final a few weeks earlier.
Yes, and a hobby should be fun and have some rewards. Intercounty football in Leinster is a black hole of desperation and desolation.
Down and Derry Club Champions are uncompetitive.
Kilcoo and Burren have won the last 10 club championships in Down, Ballinderry and Slaughneil have won the 8 of the last 10 in Derry. They are closed shops. Boring, boring, boring.
The Tyrone club championship lit up the autumn this year. It’s the best in Ulster by a mile.
Hmmmnn
I wouldn’t expect a man from a county where the club championship is a closed shop to understand a county where every club has a genuine chance of getting the glory.
Go to your quiet place
Exactly .It is something that is independent of Dublin funding and needs to be addressed by Meath internally
Agreed. Dublin funding and numbers is a whole other issue. Which is what was said from the start.
But shur look, let it go on as it is. Its working just fine.
I’ve already told you that I understand why you don’t get it. Derry football is at a low ebb and you couldn’t really be expected to understand how a proper county functions.
Anyone who is actually into sport and the competitive nature of it doesn’t like seeing what’s happening in Leinster now.but it’s important to acknowledge the problem has more issues than just Dublin funding …
Amazing the law of unintended consequences. Mummy sent Ultán or sneachta to a gaelscoil to avoid the foreigners and suddenly the gaa wasn’t just a pursuit for culchies or the handful of die hards, cuala training was the the place to show off your new white range rover.
Add to this the proliferation of branded club gear. Your at nothing if you don’t have a castleknock or Lucan hoody or top you can wear shopping, having it marks you out as well connected, part of the community right there on your chest.
Dublin were always going to become dominant. It was just a matter of time and organisation such are their advantages. The funding put that into overdrive. The gaa recognised this, and suggested at the outset that the funding would have to be accompanied by splitting them. They wouldn’t take that, but the money? No problem.
The way the game is gone it’s essentially basketball in croke park, the great wide surface means you don’t run into trouble until you are close to goal. It’s unrecognisable from 25 years ago. Add into the mix a genius like Jim Gavin, who given the right material, excellent athletes that can be cherry picked from a huge population makes it almost unstoppable. Even when they have off days, as they did a few times against mayo, the real phenomenon of the last ten years, dublin still won.
Not many have an insight into the Dublin set up, one or two posters do, the fair weather lads still think others just need to try really really hard and ‘get their house in order’ I know someone involved in it, it’s fully professional and other countries will never match it.
If Meath did everything right, they’d still lose to Dublin by 7-10 points most days.
Teams have played out of their skin against a misfiring Dublin and still lost.
One Problem I see in Meath is the ex players are quite brutal with their assessment of the current teams failings… no pride ,embarrassment, not standing up as men etc …they’re like Roy Keane …that hard nose approach doesn’t work with most modern players .
Meath are an amateur team in a high scoring sport. In what other sport will an amateur team have a chance against a professional set up?
Is it any worse than say the likes of Kerry? Meath relied on thuggery when they were at their pomp, the rules of the game generally don’t allow for it anymore and they’ve gone soft as a result.
Meath should be better, no doubt. They could have what Kerry or Mayo have if they got things right.
But no one can consistently match Dublin as things stand. The future will be them winning 4, 5 or 6 on the bounce repeatedly with maybe the odd freak defeat thrown in.
I’m out lads, I dont see the solution offering itself forward here anytime soon and I’m too old to have this discussion again.
If they were really cynical they’d lose to Cavan or mayo/tipp, all would be right with the world and Dublin would be free to win the next six no questions asked.
It’s never going to be equal, the likes of Carlow will always struggle against the likes of Meath but it won’t be an insurmountable gap. A good bunch of players and they could have a great few years. The gap from Dublin to the rest is completely insurmountable as it’s a system not individuals.
The only solution i see is treat Dublin as a separate province. It’s what they asked for anyway back when they demanded that funding and predicted they’d win 1 in every 3 football all Ireland and 1/5 hurling. Give them a bye into the quarters or whatever but inevitably they will have to be divided, I think four is reasonable then let them play out their own championship.