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

Comerford, Small, Bugler and Mannion are injured. I think Mannion aggravated injury in club final. He had only trained 30 minutes in 4 months prior to club final so don't think we will see him until championship. I think McDaid has moved to Dubai. We have Sean and Jack Flash to come back too and Howard made his first apperance off the bench yesterday after been on his travels.

It not Dessie fault Basquel and Byrne lost possessions which led to vital scores.

Basquel did kick vital point off bench against Clare and got another point yesterday. Has the quality but lacking in confidence when puts on a Dublin jersey. The reality is Dessie doesn't have the depth of talent Jim had and has to persist with lads like Basquel. When we have everyone available for selection we will be match for anyone.

We be hoping we see more of Gilroy influence come championship as doesn't appear to involved at the moment on the line.

Definitely need to alter style of play. Dublin teams at all levels having been playing a running game for last 10 years. Jim upped to this around 2017 to lads running off of the loop and popping the ball over the bar. Opposition have copped onto this and we have no plan B.

It all well and easy saying just kick the ball in early but when opposition have multiple sweepers protecting their full back line to combat the direct play the long ball is not always on. The coaching team need to install a more creative game plan because we have become stale over the last two years.

cork , under conor counihan , and that time they used to be finishing in mid table at best , 2010 the year , given that dublin and kerry won 10 of the next remaining 12 all irelands it dose not say a huge amount of the other seasoned division 1 teams

i am not making excuses , clare have been deacent in years past struggling a bit this year but much better then some reporters credit us , cork are a fine team dont be surprised they beat that derry team in a few weeks time , and yes serious contenders for munster not based on today but overall ,

the point i was trying to make is there is as much dead wood in divisoion 1 as 2 , teams like monaghan , roscommon and donegal will find it very hard to match the levels of derry dublin and cork come championsip ,

We were never in it. We don't seem to have any belief that we can win against those fellas.

Didn't see the game today or the highlights yet. Listened to the first few minutes on Kilkenny Radio where we didn't start well. Only had a brief summary of match since. If there's any positives we only lost the second half by 2 points but whether Kilkenny took their foot off the gas i don't know.

The league hasn't been a total disaster. We drew down in Waterford in first game where we scored a couple of good goals. Should have won though with two extra men for last 10 mins if i remember correctly.

We only lost to Tipp by 5 points which in hurling is nothing. I think Tipp had only one more score than us.

We beat Antrim which isn't an easy game.

As a warm up for the championship we've tried lots of players. I think it's fair to say Kilkenny and Galway are warm favourites to qualify so it's between ourselves and Wexford for that third spot. And we didn't get annihilated by 30+ points at home like Wexford did. And they somehow lost a game they should have won today because they don't have that killer instinct and we can beat them. Getting out of Leinster would be a good year imo.

The other positive is O'Donoghue is not afraid to trawl all the clubs for players, in an effort to freshen things up and add some depth.

Only a casual hurling follower but we seemed to hold our own at underage level a couple of years ago but the players seem to drop off the scene for whatever reason .As things stand we appear about eight points off at least any of the good sides .

Couple of things spring to mind. First, the move to U17 and U20 hasn't been successfully carried out in either code for Dublin.

Second, the football team is still a big draw and get the best players declaring for them.

Third, we just aren't very good right now. That's not to say we don't have some good players. Donal Burke is quality and O'Connell is a top class operator. We are weak in the key areas though. Midfield has been a huge problem for a while now and we don't have the type of player to dominate the centre back or centre forward positions.

Honestly I think Dublin hurling needs a hard reset from the top down. What we're doing now isn't and hasn't worked for a time now so continuing with it would be madness.

Lessons haven't been learned from the past two seasons. It's a bit much to hope they've now learned them after one half of football.

There isn't a chance we are contenders this year. It's fairly obvious we are a very poorly managed team and results have borne this out. I'm not even the slightest bit hopeful for this season and haven't been since Dessie was kept on at the end of last year. We could become competitive again but not with this management team.

I've a bridge to sell if you're interested?