Dublin GAA Discussion Thread: Mod Note - No 'Dublin Dominance' chat allowed!

If Gavin was over the team, Dublin hold possession for the last play and work a score. That play summed up Dessies mark on this team.

On paper you would think Dublin would win Leinster. But this is a Dublin managed by Dessie Farrell - clueless tactician. It will be a Dublin team rock bottom on confidence. If I was to put money on Leinster I would have Kildare as favourites. They are vibrant and have the forwards. Unlike Dublin, they were in hard luck to be relegated. They played some decent games even when they lost.

This is precisely why I’d like a change in management….

Declan Darcy, Mick Deegan be interested ? Worked for years under Jim Gavin during the height of that success.

know winning, know dealing with players etc.

I think there is a mix of Dessie getting the gameplan wrong and the new players coming through not good enough(yet I hope). Most of the subs brought on today did not contribute anything. I hate to single out people but that O'Leary lad looked way off the pace required for intercounty football, he did go off injured though so maybe that explains it. Worrying though that we even brought on a player not at full fitness

The writing has been on the wall for this management team for a while now. Trying to play long direct ball sounds good in theory, but not so good when you're playing in a gale with pissing rain. Dessie has his fingerprints all over this campaign. Sloppy play, terrible tactics, and a demoralised squad.

We are all confused with what he's trying to do and none more so than the players. They look lost out on the pitch and there's not an ounce of fight in them. Beaten out the gate in half the games played and even today we never looked like winning that game.

Sure look, we'll have a few games to paper over the cracks in Leinster and the first half daycent team that plays us will have their fun with us.

With the panel we have there is no way we should be getting relegated and I don't care what anyone says, they won't be changing my mind on that.

Offer Brian Mullins the job.

Would he take the job ?

no chance he would be interested or even considered at this stage i would think cannot see a change until after the champo when i see Dessie stepping down .

Age and milage is catching them. Alot of younger lads in mid twenties have been bench warming too long

Certainly can't see Dessie turning things around to any great extent prospects very bleak looks like ending ugly hope I am wrong of course .

Feck sake, his flipping interviews really rile me up at this stage. At this rate he will go from one of my favourite players of his Dublin era. To the most annoying ex Dub player since Marc Vaughan!

And the other bit that will really rile me up all the more - is the likes of Marty Morrissey saying 'Dessie Farrell one of the few to have an AI as a manager and a player'. 🙄

I think he has set Dublin football back the guts of a decade. Managed to undo a over decades great work in the space of just two years. And then there are those interviews which are just the cherry on top. Amount of times I have seen a Farrell interview and cursed/shouted at the telly/screen. Or turned it off for fear I would smash it!

It can be turned around quicker than that but will need urgent action. All those structures are still in place, we just have a management team that don't know how to use it. These things happen, no shame in that but we need to get a new team in place quick smart.