Dublin GAA Discussion Thread MOD WARNING POST #2944

bazermc

bazermc wrote: »

Anybody know where Team are staying. Gibson hotel. (I think).

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Answering my own question. Confirmed it is the Gibson.

not yet

Yup Yup 7 fcuking up..

bazermc

It's definitely extra special when we beat Kerry.

Ken Tucky

Soaked to the bone but so happy. Dont cry often but today i had a few tears of joy....

Up the dubs...i love it

BonnieSituation

Soaked to the bone. And so so happy. Love it when we beat that shower well.

ThunbergsAreGo

Yes, almost anti climatic by far the better team.

Enjoy it!

Slattsy

My feet are drenched. bought a poncho so escaped any real damage.

Disappointing we didn't put the game to bed earlier, it was a very comfortable win. But we'll look at the negatives later on.
Had a bet on 5 points and over. Oh well.

Can anyone tell me why Gooch didn't play? Didn't even come on as a sub.

Up the Dubs!

SmallFrog

hopefully the sunday game will put the spotlight on that glorious representative of dublin football and the GAA - the one and only Philly McMahon.
Pests like that should be out of the game until they're taught how to behave.

I'll enjoy O'Donoghue and Gooch getting a crack at him next year when they're fully fit.

corny

YEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Worst seats in croker. **** dreary day but very happy.

Never a day for classy football but even still we executed poorly. The thing that gives us the decisive edge on Kerry is that we just have better athletes. They were never going to match us in a game of attrition.

Andrews, Brogan and Kilkenny put in insane shifts. Being the wrong side of 30 makes Brogans performance all the more laudable. Our defenders were magic.

Cluxton needs to come to some sort of epiphany. If no option presents itself belt it down the middle. I won't hear of it that we play second fiddle in midfield to any county in Ireland. SOS, Parsons, Moran, Maher were unable to impose themselves against us. Cluxtons refusal to accept the opposition have cut off the options is leading him to make serious mistakes though. He has to correct that.

ProudDUB

Good evening fellow sons & daughters of the 2015 All Ireland Champions.

That is all !

ProudDUB

Good evening fellow sons & daughters of the 2015 All Ireland Champions.

That is all !

corny

SmallFrog wrote: »

hopefully the sunday game will put the spotlight on that glorious representative of dublin football and the GAA - the one and only Philly McMahon.
Pests like that should be out of the game until they're taught how to behave.

I'll enjoy O'Donoghue and Gooch getting a crack at him next year when they're fully fit.

You know what they say fourth times a charm.

SmallFrog

corny wrote: »

You know what they say fourth times a charm.

4th time? not great at the maths eh...

corny

SmallFrog wrote: »

4th time? not great at the maths eh...

2011, 2013, 2015... 2016 would be fourth time. Keep up.

Bret Hart

What a glorious day It's always great to win a All-Ireland,but just very much sweeter when it's against Kerry. Such a delight too deny them back to back glory. 4 out of 4 trophies won this year,what a time to be a Dub. Hopefully the ladies can cap off a great year for Dublin GAA next week.

COYBIB.
COYGIB.

SmallFrog

my point was directly in relation to good auld Philly.

not great at the english, eh?

The_Kew_Tour

From a Corkman.

Thank you Dublin, well done and best team won AI.

Slattsy

I thought Eamonn Fitzmorice was the second coming? Every expert said he was a tactical genius. Why bring on Dorothy when you want to win a match instead of throwing on a some fat bloke to go out and act like a scumbag??

I hope he stays on for years. Gavin owned him. Actually clueless.

Has anyone found Gooch yet?

Mr.Crinklewood

Congratulations

SeanJ09

Well done Dublin best team on the day won. Potentially could dominate the game for the next few years. Thought Brogan was immense today along with Philly McMahon. However it's a pity the way Philly has conducted himself in the last 3 matches as he has been fantastic for Dublin. The incidents with O Shea, feigning injury,the continuous harassing off Cooper off the ball (which was eventually punished) and the gouging of Donaghy in the eye should leave him out of the fray for contention for Footballer of the year. Not the standard we should be setting for young footballers.

ProudDUB

Slattsy wrote: »

Has anyone found Gooch yet?

Who?

ProudDUB

Slattsy wrote: »

Has anyone found Gooch yet?

Who?

SmallFrog

ProudDUB wrote: »

Who?

Gooch has more class on and off the field than anyone walking up those steps today. He'll be back. And schooling defenders for fun in 2016.
Enjoy ur night Philly et al.

Slattsy

SmallFrog wrote: »

Gooch has more class on and off the field than anyone walking up those steps today. He'll be back. And schooling defenders for fun in 2016.
Enjoy ur night Philly et al.

Your.

Kavrocks

SmallFrog wrote: »

Gooch has more class on and off the field than anyone walking up those steps today. He'll be back. And schooling defenders for fun in 2016.
Enjoy ur night Philly et al.

Keyboard warriors are out in force already! What did you make of Donaghy?

P.S. I enjoyed reading some of your previous posts, the collection made me laugh.

Dyr

Slattsy wrote: »

I thought Eamonn Fitzmorice was the second coming? Every expert said he was a tactical genius. Why bring on Dorothy when you want to win a match instead of throwing on a some fat bloke to go out and act like a scumbag??

I hope he stays on for years. Gavin owned him. Actually clueless.

Has anyone found Gooch yet?

I though fitzmaurice got things pretty right, as did gavin. Kerry players just were not good enough to make the difference.

How kerry only had once black card though was amazing, nearly every one of them could have got the line for dragging players down. Fitzgerald in particular was at it the whole game.

windy shepard henderson

well done today , normally all the credit go's to yer forwards but the defensive effort today was excellent , every thing that was thrown at them was dealt with quickly , i think also the dubs were playing with a much greater sense of hunger too something that might be hard to replicate maybe this time next year . . . . but that's for another day well done lads,

Slattsy

Sure referees don't like booking Kerry lads. It's hardly a new thing.

Slattsy

I'm gonna wreck myself tonight.

Hope you all have a good night lads whatever you get up to.

Coybib

zetecescort

time to split the county! too much money, home advantage, etc.

seriously though, congrats, far better on the day and should have won by more really. was great to see Kerry not get the penalty near the end after the handy one they got in the Munster final, Karma's a bitch

SmallFrog

a very poor football season on reflection.
Not one game stands out - especially today.
Forget and move on.

but1er

Colm cooper has been found inside phillys pocket!!

Give him player of year

SmallFrog

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

well done today , normally all the credit go's to yer forwards but the defensive effort today was excellent , every thing that was thrown at them was dealt with quickly , i think also the dubs were playing with a much greater sense of hunger too something that might be hard to replicate maybe this time next year . . . . but that's for another day well done lads,

Thats a ridiculous statement imo.
The defences didnt actually have much defending or sweeping to do.
I think Dublin could have played without their number 6, definitely for the entire first half and possibly for much of the second.

Kerry played into Dublin and Jim Gavin's hands with their approach.
Talk about helping Dublin to neutralise JOD and gooch.
Baffling at times.

Dirty Dingus McGee

SmallFrog wrote: »

a very poor football season on reflection.
Not one game stands out - especially today.
Forget and move on.

Off the top of my head.

Cork v Kerry (first game)
Westmeath v Meath
Monaghan v Cavan
3 All ireland semi finals
Kildare v Laois (first match)

There were some pretty decent matches in the qualifiers as well


If you look back at previous championship season over the years there probably weren't a huge amount of great games, it's just people have a very nostalgic view of the past.The championship structure completely holds back the amount of entertainment the sport could provide.

Godge

SmallFrog wrote: »

Gooch has more class on and off the field than anyone walking up those steps today. He'll be back. And schooling defenders for fun in 2016.
Enjoy ur night Philly et al.

Gooch this year looked like a beaten docket. That cruciate seems to have taken a bit more out of him than many thought.

I also think that Fitzmaurice made a big mistake keeping Galvin, Donaghy, Walsh, O'Se, O'Mahony in the squad. They are no longer good enough and the message that is sent is that the players coming up behind are not good enough either.

Fennell, Cahill, Cullen, Nolan, Quinn and Brennan are all gone from the 2011 Dublin winners because better options are available now. Kerry didn't do that after last year.

STB.

Godge wrote: »

Gooch this year looked like a beaten docket. That cruciate seems to have taken a bit more out of him than many thought.

Must be from soloing the heineken bottles.

windy shepard henderson

SmallFrog wrote: »

Thats a ridiculous statement imo.
The defences didnt actually have much defending or sweeping to do.
I think Dublin could have played without their number 6, definitely for the entire first half and possibly for much of the second.

Kerry played into Dublin and Jim Gavin's hands with their approach.
Talk about helping Dublin to neutralise JOD and gooch.
Baffling at times.

james mccarthy , philly mcmahon were outstanding , they kept kerry down to
0-08 points over 70 minuets gave them very little scoring opportunities or score able frees , fair enough fitzmorris did get his side of things wrong but even keiran donoughy's introduction didnt faze them , in fact i cant think of one clear ball he was allowed to field , for a guy that normally causes havoc he was kept fairly quiet as was gooch as was JOD regardless of tactics it was'nt just bad tactics that lost it for kerry and i am sure most kerry fans will tell you the same

SmallFrog

Godge wrote: »

Gooch this year looked like a beaten docket. That cruciate seems to have taken a bit more out of him than many thought.

I also think that Fitzmaurice made a big mistake keeping Galvin, Donaghy, Walsh, O'Se, O'Mahony in the squad. They are no longer good enough and the message that is sent is that the players coming up behind are not good enough either.

Fennell, Cahill, Cullen, Nolan, Quinn and Brennan are all gone from the 2011 Dublin winners because better options are available now. Kerry didn't do that after last year.

Yep I'd agree with that.
Big refresh required now. He should have started this on arrival.
The all-irl win glossed over a lot of shortcomings

Meath Centre Forward

Some of the Dublin substitutions were strange enough I thought. The Johnny Cooper one was made before the match I'd say and Jack McCaffrey must have been injured or why did he take him off?

Credit to Gavin and Dublin management for what they got right though - the match-ups. In my opinion of the 14 outfield positions, Dublin won 12 of the personnel duels. I thought Bernard Brogan struggled a bit of Enright although he gave away a needless free to Brogan at the end. Aidan O'Mahony was very solid on Rock/McMenamin and was the only Kerry player to really dominate his direct opponent(s). Darran O'Sullivan was alright when he came on.

It's hard to defend McMahon. He looks to me like he has a bad streak in him and you can judge each incident how you like but in the last 3 games, he's been accused of headbutting, diving and eye-gouging. Some might add sledging in too. He's had a great year and performed the role of auxiliary forward exceptionally well while also getting the better of the likes of Aidan O'Shea and Colm Cooper in one-to-one duels.

Slim1996

Fair play to all the dubs fans that gave those cheeky kerry boggers that were top of the nally a few slaps after the game, giving it large they were saying they'd batter people and then started throwing coins but once they actually got a few digs all **** themselves they did

DoctaDee

Natural order has returned ..

SmallFrog

DoctaDee wrote: »

Natural order has returned ..

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corny

Meath Centre Forward wrote: »

Some of the Dublin substitutions were strange enough I thought. The Johnny Cooper one was made before the match I'd say and Jack McCaffrey must have been injured or why did he take him off?

He was supposed to marking Darren O'Sullivan who was having more and more of an impact. Preceding play he broke through the centre and flashed a goal chance (half chance really) wide. Small came on and snuffed him out. Ruthless but effective management.

DoctaDee

SmallFrog wrote: »

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Best team in the country for the last 3years have rose to the summit once again

SmallFrog

DoctaDee wrote: »

Best team in the country for the last 3years have rose to the summit once again

Dublin were certainly not the best team last year.
3rd or 4th at best.

SeanJ09

Slim1996 wrote: »

Fair play to all the dubs fans that gave those cheeky kerry boggers that were top of the nally a few slaps after the game, giving it large they were saying they'd batter people and then started throwing coins but once they actually got a few digs all **** themselves they did

Christ. Stick to the soccer mate.

Meath Centre Forward

corny wrote: »

He was supposed to marking Darren O'Sullivan who was having more and more of an impact. Preceding play he broke through the centre and flashed a goal chance (half chance really) wide. Small came on and snuffed him out. Ruthless but effective management.

McCarthy was marking Darran O'Sullivan early in the second half. I had not realised they swapped. O'Sullivan done alright when he came alright. Probably the best of the Kerry substitutes.

Moneymaker

We did it lads!

After the first Mayo game I was a bit let down with our overly cynical approach.

The replay and today(yes we were defensive but we were fair and did it right) have alleviated that feeling.

James McCarthy for motm imo. He was ****ing class. That take at the end out of the air summed up his effort. COS was fantastic too.

COYBIB

not yet

Thrilled for the lads today, a long hard winter and spring paid off, The look of joy on their faces was a sight to behold. So happy for Alan Brogan in his last game to get a winners medal.

JRant

Unreal day and what a performance. Thought our halfbacks and half-forwards were brilliant. Kilkenny has very a compossed head for such a young player.

Fenton was outstanding as well and against probably the best midfield in the country he really shone.

Can't wait for Sam to do the rounds with the team now. Unlike when Kerry win, they're a bit like the dwarfs in lord of the rings. Back on to the bus and into the mountain with the silver for another year!!