Dublin Vs Donegal - Sun 28th Aug. 3.30pm

doc_17

I'd let that lad keep talking...He's making a fool of himself with his lack of understanding. When I see some of the nonsense and rubbish he's posting I remember that every year Dublin implode (sorry, they were never good enough anyway) given the weight of the expectation laid on them.

Has anything changed this year?

TouchingVirus

Monty. wrote: »

No point in hiding the facts mate, it will be cruel enough for dem poor auld culchies on the 28th, and some of them are living in dream land.

I'll tell you one thing, that video gives me the chills! Highlights the savage atmosphere at the game last night - the place was electric

smashey

Dont worry about Monty lads. I'm on mobile now but when I get to my laptop I wont be long in silencing him

rossie1977

Monty. wrote: »

Donegal hasn't really met a challenging team yet.

by that same token dublin hasn't really met a challenging team yet either, both played tyrone and kildare, dublin played wexford, donegal played derry, dublin played laois, donegal played cavan and antrim

but1er

How safe is tickets.ie. Can't understand why there on sale there and not on ticketmaster??

Bluetonic

rossie1977 wrote: »

the most donegal have conceded in 70 minutes of play this year is 10 points and that was last time out against kildare and it took them till the fourth minute of injury time to get that

tyrone only managed 9 points against them, derry just 8

5 Feb 2011 Donegal 2-11 - 1-14 Sligo MacCumhaill Park FT
19 Mar 2011 Derry 2-12 - 2-18 Donegal Celtic Park FT
10 Apr 2011 Laois 1-15 - 1-11 Donegal Portlaoise FT

You're obviously one of these people who follow the sport from May.

boxer.fan

Monty. wrote: »

Sounds like ye already had yer All Ireland final day lads :pac:

TouchingVirus

but1er wrote: »

How safe is tickets.ie. Can't understand why there on sale there and not on ticketmaster??

Tickets.ie is perfectly safe. Print at home tickets for Season Ticket holders are issued by Tickets.ie and not Ticketmaster. The GAA link to Tickets.ie from their own site. Face value with no booking fee - can't go wrong.

boxer.fan wrote: »

Sounds like ye already had yer All Ireland final day lads :pac:

Wait till the 28th

gooch2k9

Bluetonic wrote: »

5 Feb 2011 Donegal 2-11 - 1-14 Sligo MacCumhaill Park FT
19 Mar 2011 Derry 2-12 - 2-18 Donegal Celtic Park FT
10 Apr 2011 Laois 1-15 - 1-11 Donegal Portlaoise FT

You're obviously one of these people who follow the sport from May.

Could argue that was before they had their defensive system working to it's full potential.

Stinicker

but1er wrote: »

How safe is tickets.ie. Can't understand why there on sale there and not on ticketmaster??

tickets.ie are safe and I got my tickets last weekend for Kerry V Limerick from them, they are the GAA's chosen online ticketing partner now also. Ticketmaster are a ripoff with fees and I suspect the GAA got sick of their antics and pulled the plug on them. tickets.ie are selling the tickets at their face value without the charges of ticketmaster and are an Irish company.

Bluetonic

gooch2k9 wrote: »

Could argue that was before they had their defensive system working to it's full potential.

Everything can be argued.

Only a fool though would try and argue facts.

Cill Dara Abu

I see the Dubs hype machine is already in over drive, they beat a pretty poor Tyrone team last night, could'nt believe how bad their full-back line was.

Donegal will be a whole different ball game, Brogan x2 and Connolly will get very little room against the blanket defence in the semis, take the Kildare game for example, Connolly scored 0-00, B. Brogan scored 0-01 from open play when they had little space.

I fancy Donegal to win by 2 or 3 points in a very low scoring game.

Bluetonic

boxer.fan wrote: »

Sounds like ye already had yer All Ireland final day lads :pac:

The video is from 2010.

Bluetonic

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

I fancy Donegal to win by 2 or 3 points in a very low scoring game.

There's a surprise.

TouchingVirus

Bluetonic wrote: »

The video is from 2010.

You could have made the same video yesterday

gooch2k9

Everything can be argued.

Only a fool though would try and argue facts.

I'm not arguing the fact that they conceded them scores.

Arguing the fact that it could be said they aren't totally relevant to the upcoming game, as we all know teams use the league to get their team in order for the championship. I don't think Donegal even had the system in order when they played Antrim in Ballybofey. So it stands to reason that they would concede that much then, but not now they have found a system that works.

Bluetonic

TouchingVirus wrote: »

You could have made the same video yesterday

Unlikely. The sun was shining in that video.

It was pissing rain yesterday and dark

Bluetonic

gooch2k9 wrote: »

So it stands to reason that they would concede that much then, but not now they have found a system that works.

Time will tell.

Facts are facts.

Cill Dara Abu

Monty. wrote: »

We've seen Donegal play. Simples. And deep down, you know it's true as well. It'll be a practice game for Dublin, nothing more. Pity we're not up against a more challenging and professional style team to be honest.

This is why im glad im not a Dublin supporter!

Bomany

Listening to the radio this morning and chuckled as the editor of the Indo and a few other know it alls are already looking forward to the final. They seem to think Donegal are an irritatating distraction on the boys in blue's march to take Sam. I am sure the Dublin management and players do not buy into this rubbish. Pity some of their supporters do. In 1992 I remember the same media nonsense being spouted. Deja Vu.

RMDrive

Real bonus territory for us now but great to be there!! The Donegal defensive unit is as good as exists this year and I'd be confident that we will do a good job in limiting Dublins scores. Our problems will be our midfield and our lack of scoring forwards. Murph can only do so much and we don't have one other forward that will chip in with 3-4 points. That will be our undoing. While it's fine to talk about our defensive system, Dublin have a pretty good one of there own going. Murph will have 3-4 players converging on him everytime and that alone will mean we will not score enough to win.
I hope we can put in a strong performance and leave croker happy that it's been a pretty brilliant year for us and year 1 of Jim's 5 year plan.

Up Donegal.

upgrade

RMDrive wrote: »

Real bonus territory for us now but great to be there!! The Donegal defensive unit is as good as exists this year and I'd be confident that we will do a good job in limiting Dublins scores. Our problems will be our midfield and our lack of scoring forwards. Murph can only do so much and we don't have one other forward that will chip in with 3-4 points. That will be our undoing. While it's fine to talk about our defensive system, Dublin have a pretty good one of there own going. Murph will have 3-4 players converging on him everytime and that alone will mean we will not score enough to win.
I hope we can put in a strong performance and leave croker happy that it's been a pretty brilliant year for us and year 1 of Jim's 5 year plan.

Up Donegal.

I think the Dubs will be red hot favs for this,which suits us fine.
Dublin scraped passed Kildare as we did so the form book would suggest its a coin flip,the dubs have their eye on the final now against Kerry,

be some surprise 2c Donegal v mayo final

rossie1977

Bluetonic wrote: »

5 Feb 2011 Donegal 2-11 - 1-14 Sligo MacCumhaill Park FT
19 Mar 2011 Derry 2-12 - 2-18 Donegal Celtic Park FT
10 Apr 2011 Laois 1-15 - 1-11 Donegal Portlaoise FT

You're obviously one of these people who follow the sport from May.

hi there pat spillane, the league matters very little come championship, i remember us beating kerry, tyrone,dublin comfortably in the league back in 2000 (i was at them all too) and then losing first match in connacht to leitrim at home:o:o

look at your own post, derry scored 2-12 against donegal in the league and only 8 points in the championship, that in itself says everything

and no need for snide remarks, go back and look at my posts you will see me posting about league games, under 21 games, minor league and club matches, i was in croke park a number of times in 2011 before a ball was kicked in anger in this years championship

DessieMG

Monty. wrote: »

I'll wake up, yawn, stretch, and then look forward to the real game. Donegal are going to be steamrolled.
I'm just telling you the facts.

Typical Dub arrogance, pressure is all on you now

K-9

Bluetonic wrote: »

Time will tell.

Facts are facts.

The Sligo game was the first game in the league and the Laois game was pretty meaningless, we won the Division 2 final against them after that.

Tyrone 0-6, Kildare 1-5, Meath 0-9, Antrim 1-8 would also need to be considered. The Kildare and Tyrone games I'd take most from.

Monty.

Bomany wrote: »

Listening to the radio this morning and chuckled as the editor of the Indo and a few other know it alls are already looking forward to the final. They seem to think Donegal are an irritatating distraction on the boys in blue's march to take Sam.

That's because they are, it'll be a practice game for us, not much more. Pity, because we could have done with playing against a better team. We'll just lob balls all day over your now well known crude, boring and skill-less defence tactic and Donegal on the attack is like watching individual headless chickens in a slow motion panic. We'll poke and prod ye, push ye round the field a bit, and call ye sheep shaggers to get you thick, you'll loose the cool as usual and foul and slip and slide all over the place while crying to the ref, and it's game over again as usual for Donegal. I'll be bringing my popcorn to hill 16 to watch this predictable, but funny, repeat show.

Bomany wrote: »

In 1992 I remember . . .

Still harking back to a 19 year old fluke . . . :rolleyes:

Have ye not a corsa or honda to rev somewhere ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHzV15RvSIg

Bluetonic

rossie1977 wrote: »

hi there pat spillane, the league matters very little come championship, i remember us beating kerry, tyrone,dublin comfortably in the league back in 2000 (i was at them all too) and then losing first match in connacht to leitrim at home:o:o

look at your own post, derry scored 2-12 against donegal in the league and only 8 points in the championship, that in itself says everything

and no need for snide remarks, go back and look at my posts you will see me posting about league games, under 21 games, minor league and club matches, i was in croke park a number of times in 2011 before a ball was kicked in anger in this years championship

I was merely pointing out something you were stating as fact was incorrect.

Is that OK? Sorry to burst your bubble.

Or is it the case that you can't be corrected?

Bbbbolger

Monty. wrote: »

That's because they are, it'll be a practice game for us, not much more. Pity, because we could have done with playing against a better team. We'll just lob balls all day over your now well known crude, boring and skill-less defence tactic and Donegal on the attack is like watching individual headless chickens in a slow motion panic. We'll poke and prod ye, push ye round the field a bit, and call ye sheep shaggers to get you thick, you'll loose the cool as usual and foul and slip and slide all over the place while crying to the ref, and it's game over again as usual for Donegal. I'll be bringing my popcorn to hill 16 to watch this predictable, but funny, repeat show.

Have you ever played football at a decent level? It takes extreme discipline, fitness and communication to make any defensive system work well. Some people presume its just getting as many people behind the ball as possible but they tackle and cover men/space as a unit. The fact that their system has worked so well in the Championship shows how skilled it is.

dog_pig

Monty. wrote: »

That's because they are, it'll be a practice game for us, not much more. Pity, because we could have done with playing against a better team. We'll just lob balls all day over your now well known crude, boring and skill-less defence tactic and Donegal on the attack is like watching individual headless chickens in a slow motion panic. We'll poke and prod ye, push ye round the field a bit, and call ye sheep shaggers to get you thick, you'll loose the cool as usual and foul and slip and slide all over the place while crying to the ref, and it's game over again as usual for Donegal. I'll be bringing my popcorn to hill 16 to watch this predictable, but funny, repeat show.



Still harking back to a 19 year old fluke . . . :rolleyes:

Have ye not a corsa or honda to rev somewhere ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHzV15RvSIg

You're repeating yourself now.

Please up your game or cease the sub-standard trolling.

Sunnyisland

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

This is why i'm glad i'm not a Dublin supporter!

Why Cause of one persons attempt at stupid trolling, I have met quite a few kildare twats lately but I don't generate them with all kildare supporters.You get the likes of them everywhere broaden your horizons,There there.;)

Monty.

Bbbbolger wrote: »

Have you ever played football at a decent level? It takes extreme discipline, fitness and communication

And that's exactly why Donegal can be safely ruled out of the equation.

rosskind

Donegal have it in the bag. Kerry will be another story altogether though.

teednab-el

Monty. wrote: »

And that's exactly why Donegal can be safely ruled out of the equation.

Just seeing that comment, I hope Donegal beat Dublin now.

Funny_Bones

Monty you absolutely make me laugh. Have you not learned in the past few seasons to stop being so cocky? Tyrone and Kildare are the only decent teams either of us have beat this year in the championship so for you to show such ignorance to Donegal's ability is incredible. It's people like you that mean most people outside of Dublin will support Donegal.

An Citeog

Monty banned for a week for repeated trolling.

henke

An Citeog wrote: »

Monty banned for a week for repeated trolling.

Banned for a week, probably come back for two weeks unless gets another ban and may well disappear off boards for a while after that .

teednab-el

An Citeog wrote: »

Monty banned for a week for repeated trolling.

Thanks mods that was badly needed.

Bomany

Just back from washing the Corsa and shearing the pet sheep out the back. Poor aul Monty can engage in abusive stereotypes all he likes, but it doesn't mask his complete ignorance of a game he starts watching in May.

the bolt

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

I cant see nothing but comfortable Dublin victory by 7-10 points[/QUOTE
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

DoctaDee

An Citeog wrote: »

Monty banned for a week for repeated trolling.

Soccer season is back, he'll be gone for good ..:D

Dangerous Man

Just goes to show - one troll was all it took and Club 31 came out in force talking garbage about Dublin 'hype' and the usual nonsense. Cop on the lot of you.

dubdamo

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

This is why im glad im not a Dublin supporter!

Dont worry,going by your posts in the Dublin V Kildare thread I dont think you will ever be accused of being a Dublin fan.:D

DoctaDee

Dangerous Man wrote: »

Just goes to show - one troll was all it took and Club 31 came out in force talking garbage about Dublin 'hype' and the usual nonsense. Cop on the lot of you.

In fairness they were fighting fire with fire .. that type of sh1te talk brings out the worst in people .. fellas like yer man are takin the shine of a great display from Dublin last night and gives "neutrals" licence to begrudge .. just me tuppence worth

DoctaDee

dubdamo wrote: »

Dont worry,going by your posts in the Dublin V Kildare thread I dont think you will ever be accused of being a Dublin fan.:D

:eek: ... what happened da rule that when yer county is out you support yer province .. or was it just changed this year ? .. couldn't give a fiddlers tbh .. but I did meet a pal of mine in the pissins - inter county footballer from da royal who was right behind us .. that's one - 500,000 to go !

wixfjord

Really hope Dublin beat the ****e out of DnaG, will be serious atmosphere.

Dublin Kerry would be a brilliant final!

corny

DessieMG wrote: »

Typical Dub arrogance, pressure is all on you now

Will everyone please stop with this pressure is all on Dublin now bollox. Second year running that this team will contest an All Ireland semi. They learned a huge lesson against a more experienced team last year and that team are still the only side to beat them in over a year now. THEY KNOW WHATS REQUIRED.

Its uncharted territory for the Donegal lads so if any team is gonna crack with the pressure its Donegal. They won't though. When the whistle blows the 30 players will give it everything and all the ****e thats dribbled out here and in the press (weight of favouritism being my favourite) will mean nothing.

DoctaDee

Originally Posted by wixfjord
Kerry for me, best pure footballing team left.

Hope Tyrone roll over the Dubs on Sat!

wixfjord wrote: »

Really hope Dublin beat the ****e out of DnaG, will be serious atmosphere.

Dublin Kerry would be a brilliant final!

Welcome to the dark side Wixfjord .. yer sins are forgiven brother .. a Road to Damascus moment was it ? :rolleyes:

wixfjord

DoctaDee wrote: »

Originally Posted by wixfjord
Kerry for me, best pure footballing team left.

Hope Tyrone roll over the Dubs on Sat!



Welcome to the dark side Wixfjord .. yer sins are forgiven brother .. a Road to Damascus moment was it ? :rolleyes:

Close relatives from Tyrone.

Good to see I've a fan though

DoctaDee

wixfjord wrote: »

Close relatives from Tyrone.

Good to see I've a fan though

LOL.. yeah I remember responding to the original post hopin yer strawberries rotted in da ground

bohsboy

Funny_Bones wrote: »

It's people like you that mean most people outside of Dublin will support Donegal.

Who cares? They always do anyway. We'll just get on with the job no matter what hype is being wound up. Interesting that all the hype is coming from outside Dublin this year.

Gilroy has them nice and calm. Looking good.