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

The fella that thought he was from the real capital. Chris O’Leary is hurling well and not even first half gone. And as I type Antrim chipping away on scoreboard.

Jayus the Antrim lads made Dublin work for that. Good job final whistle came when it did.

What is Wexford/Waterford level consistency?

A level up to where Dublin are at the moment I meant. And expecting to beat Wexford - Waterford etc.

I would be looking for Dublin to be consistently ‘best of the rest’ just below the big guns of hurling eventually. Should be well capable of by about a decade.

I don't think Wexford are a level above Dublin. I would say when we meet in the Championship it will be 50/50. No more no less. Like it is every year really.

We usually give Waterford as good as we get in the league and haven't played them in Championship in recent years because they have consistently failed to get out of Munster since new round robin format.

I think it's more to do with the changes made in the game to be honest. The likes of Gray, Mellett, Conor and Donal Burke were still running at the end. No bother. The subs offered nothing though and the confusion around who was playing where was obvious. Same as last week. Not to criticise though, it'll take time to add that clarity with the number of faces and a new management team.

Just in from the game only really a casual watcher but we offered zero goal threat the Antrim keeper had nothing to do apart from puck outs our keeper had a bit to do on the other side .Thought we would kick on especially as we got some good points but instead ended up hanging on a bit .

Yes they beat us well that time. That can happen to any team. Plenty of tight games from what i remember.

Wexford got a bounce when Davy came in like we got a bounce with Dalo. Both counties could/should have won All Ire semi finals in 2013 and 2019.

In my opinion we have nothing to looking up to Wexford for. Respect them like all counties but i don't think Wexford are a level above us

Even If you look into underage last decade approx

Dublin 4 Leinster Minor to Wexford 1

Dublin 4 U21/20 to Wexford 3

Dublin All Ire club champions 2 to Wexford 0

When we meet this year in the round robin it is 50/50 for me. It's on the day.

Yes it's early in the season and there's players to come back or are beginning to come back but Dublin haven't looked great in any game so far the context of Division 2 makes it more worrying. The Derry game will be telling...

Not a great performance overall to be fair. So open at the back should have conceded 3 goals in first half alone.

Costelloe was useless. Scully just going through the motions. Kilkenny poor. Con anonymous. Basquel sending that 76th minute easy chance wide sums up his Dublin career and so nearly cost us the game.

Midfield partner for Fenton an issue.

Positives are we welcome back Jack and James. Jack looked good. And i think this is a good Cork team who will cause any team problems this year (even if they did lose to Meath). We won. We come home with the points. Lots of work to do though i was not impressed with that at all.

Yes good spread of scores. The highlight was seeing the Clontarf rocket slipping into turbo speed and leaving a few Cork men in his wake. Didn't think i'd ever see that again. Some player.

Yeah, and there I was thinking Jack would look leggy. That was proved wrong in a ‘flash’.

Dessie has an interesting decision now. Does he start Jack or is he more effective as super sub?

Cork don't turn out in large numbers for the footballers.

Fair point, but the Hill on tour would love a championship spin down there. Would get similar crowd to CP but that feels soulless unless 60k plus.

We started very slowly today in the first half and gave up some big chances. There was a decent spell after that where we went through the gears a little and played some good football but it was short lived. Very scrappy performance but that ref was a liability today. Wasn't allowing any sort of tackling and was handing out cards like they were going out of fashion. For a game where there wasn't a bad tackle all game he somehow managed to book every second player and dish out two reds.

We closed out the game today which is something we haven't necessarily been doing well this past year or so but it was another typical Dessie game in many respects.