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

The Fitzsimmon one was the most egregious for me. Gets to a breaking ball first and cleanly wins it. Cormer goes down holding his head. 30 seconds later a yellow is produced and free given when he clearly waved play-on. Do we have an unofficial version of VAR going on in certain games with someone talking into the refs ear from the stands?

While I think there's validity to some critique of the referee, bottom line is Dublin were dominant in the first half but were only four points up with no clear goal scoring chance again. In the second half they were utterly shocking, they were outplayed and none of their subs had an impact never looked like getting a goal and scored a measly 5 points in the second half..

Yeah wondering this myself. These players owe us absolutely nothing and I hope everyone in the set up takes time before making any decisions.

I've said it time and time again, but the generation of 30-31 aged players is the best of all time. Kilkenny, Mannion, McCaffrey, Small, Fenton, Scully, Davy Byrne, Costello et al. Underage success hasn't been amazing since that group and I think it's probably catching up with us now. That group probably have one or two more years where they can eek out another All-Ireland.

As for Cluxton, Fitz and McCarthy, I think it might be that for them (just a hunch more than any actual knowledge).

Galway surprised me how well they defended. I would have thought their attack would have been more of a threat. But you are right I would say the last time a Dublin team were kept that quiet was in the AI SF v Donegal back in 2011.

I'd be curious to watch that back. My view was the same as yours… Fitzsimons got there first.

After the whistle I saw one Dublin player make a beeline to Hurson before he made a swift exit. The handshake was held a little too long to be civil. Has to be said the chap never gives us the rub.

When it's all said and done we have lost 1 game and there's teams left who have lost 3 who have a chance of getting to a semi final. How does that work?

The one's given to Hurson and Cormer would beg to differ.

Hopefully we will eventually get back to an all Ireland where everything matters.

I believe that's a GAA thing. Just like Dublin get to play at home a lot

So it's a Gaa thing that losers get to move forward? Wtf. Sooner the better Dublin get there own proper ground so we don't have to listen to tired old excuses Everytime we win no matter how big or small pitch is.

100% the reason along with mannion who was not fully fit , them 3 players coming on at the end would have won the game for dublin terrible call by farrell

dublin are far from finished , when you take the age profile of the likes of ,con ,fenton, kilkenny , costello , but the fringes of the team need to be calculated better then tonight in terms of selections

Great teams are built on competition and having player fighting for a starting place. When guys like Cluxton, Fitzsimmons and McCarthy can take the winter off and stroll back into the team then questions need to be ask about how that impacts the rest of the Dublin. Dublin will be stronger next year when those three aren't around.

You are handy enough at the excuses yourself.

It seems to be that in the capital yesterday, Pride, came before a Fall 😎

Commiserations to Dublin.

Ye'll be there or thereabouts every year so no big deal. I'm sure the elder statesmen of your squad would prefer to go out with a win, so they might stay on another year.

It's better for the game to have different finalists.

Kerry are the bookies favourites but I think every team bar Louth can win it this year.

The jury's very much out on Kerry but we'll have a better idea of their ability after today's game.

I'm sure Kerry will be using Michael's death as motivation also.