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

That's a Div 1 team we just beat out the gate. I was very critical when they hammered us in the league so it's out fair to call out a good result when I see it. Kildare aren't a lower league team that we just beat by double digit scores. They are a good outfit with dangerous forwards and I thought we dealt with them very well all game. Something has changed in this team. Maybe it's Con but I think it's something more than that.

I wouldn't hang my hat on the league but we were truly awful this year in the league and have turned in some good performances so far.

In the first half we played a lot cleverer with some extra support for the inside backs. That was missing in the league and against Meath but they've clearly made an adjustment.

Offensively, we were far sharper. Players making runs and the passing was on point. We are a far better team playing at pace than the slow side to side stuff.

Wasn't at it for the first time in a long while.

Looked good on TV. Whelo pointed out the three forwards staying in the square or thereabouts creating space for everyone else, and magnified by their runs. This was different to the league, I didn't see any of that then.

An interesting journey lies ahead for the Dubs, whether it results in another Holy Grail remains to be seen.

We need a tree tier championship. Forget about fancy names. Forget about finals in Croke Park. Any championship stands on its own merit. Round robin at the initial phase. Then promotion and relegation between tiers.

As well get over the fixation of pumping money into counties on s per capita basis. Some counties can draw funding on a commercial basis, some cannot.

Why should Dublin at this stage get more funding virtually than the rest of Leinster combined.

Glen Ryan must be cringing now thinking back to his celebrations after beating us in the league match .He should have known better and waited till he won a championship match .

It is clear to me that Dublin are now massively dependent on Con O’Callaghan. If he does not play that Dublin team is distinctively average. And Con missed the whole league cannot be a coincidence. Wrap him in cotton wool.

I see Joe Brolly back in love with us all's right in the world again .

Bit disappointed with lack of turn out for the very good LGFA game on Saturday; much better match than the mens game afterwards. Good turn out from Meath fans, but feck all Dubs bothered with it. What I thought was especially notable was (we didnt stay for mens game) the amount of parents rocking in at 4.50pm with bringing sons and daughters with them.

LGFA dont help themselves by doing damn all to publicize it. It was hard to find out even what the throw in time was for the LGFA match.

Also, the programme - pages 1 to 48 were on the mens game, pages 49 to 52 were on the womens game.

In fairness the promotion is brutal = you would work hard to figure out where and when the next LGFA game is taking place.

Yeah crowd was poor must have been lucky to be 1000 or 2000 at it, and that is probably a overestimate. But CP makes even 30,000 look empty at the best of times. I suppose in fairness there were two big 'foreign sports' competitions on that day which could have affected the attendance.

As regards the publicity it is virtually non existent. I missed a match between Dublin and Meath ladies in Parnell recently didn't even know it was on. Probably would have gone, nice day etc

Was talking to a girl that used to play for the Dubs, told me I had to check the LGFA website. Wouldn't be on main GAA website. She agreed it should be all the one organisation anyway.

I thought it was a poor ladies leinster final anyway, to be honest. 0-5 to 0-1 at half time! Very few shots from distance, and some terrible wides. I don't really hear any criticism of the styles of play/standard of the ladies football at all? Which shows they are not being treated seriously by the media IMO. If it had been a men's game there would have been uproar.

Was there for the ladies match with the kids and it was the more exciting by far. Took a long time to get going but it is more difficult with the shorter kicks in the ladies game to get scores from distance so they need to work the ball in more. Was most notable when a 45 is awarded and they don't make the distance. End of the ladies was very good from the Dubs and they colsed it out well.

Meath fans were very good but Dubs were basically absent. Expensive enough at €35 for a Meath fan to watch an LGFA match but they still turned up in ok numbers.

Certainly there was a lack of promotion but the long gap between the two matches would also put a lot off attending both. I presume they had to leave a gap for extra time but it was no surprise many people with kids were leaving by half time in the mens match - even the dubiln ladies left their seats at half time in the mens and didn't come back.

Yeah, it should not take much to getting little kids into it When they were going up to to pick up the cup there was a group of small girls screeching with delight waiting for them to lift the cup. One of them said it's your time to shine! They tore down then to get autographs etc.

That is what is all about I thought. Light a spark for the younger generations of girls give them role models. I feel that the LGFA going on about the attendance at the AI ladies final is sort of a false positive. A lot more should be done regularly.

That's just a function of the physical nature of the sport though. The more powerful players tend to rise to the top a bit easier than the smaller skillful players. It's systems that need to change in team setups rather than rule changes IMO.

Derry? Bit of recency bias there I think.

Personally I would have the real order as something like. Kerry - Mayo - Dublin - Galway - Monaghan - Derry - Tryone - Kildare- Cork