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Why don't Limerick boycott Munster? I mean Kerry stroll to titles every year, have massive sponsorship deals, money flowing in from the US, Kerry minister, Brendan Griffin, has secured €3m for Kerry clubs over the past 18 months. What about poor old Limerick? I mean surely Limerick should boycott the Munster championship.
Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 15/09/2019 22:20:00 2235846 Link 11 |
Where are the other 19 French clubs boycotting Ligue 1 because of PSG so?
eoghan6688 (Galway) - Posts: 154 - 15/09/2019 22:25:34 2235851 Link 4 |
I said an equivalent to the GAA. Amateur organisation so to speak.
LimerickKid84 (Limerick) - Posts: 28 - 15/09/2019 22:31:48 2235852 Link 0 |
They would if PSG played every match at home and if it was the French FA giving them the money!
Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1318 - 15/09/2019 22:38:22 2235855 Link 6 |
I take your point and central funding needs to be looked at and distributed equally but JP McManus has pumped plenty into Limerick Hurling for years and only last year ye won the all Ireland...why? Because a group of talented players came along.... Every county would love a JP. yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11230 - 15/09/2019 22:43:00 2235857 Link 8 |
I'm sorry.....Am I missing something here? What has two Professional Association Football teams that play almost annually in the European Champions League got to do with Dublin winning a fifth All-Ireland Gaelic football title in a row? I mean you are talking about two soccer teams whose superstars are paid thousands of pounds/euros per week to play professionally in comparison to GAA players who put their personal lives or careers on hold during the years they continue to play inter-county Gaelic football. As they say in the 'wee six counties'...…"catch yerself on"!!!!!
PatdeVerse (Dublin) - Posts: 107 - 15/09/2019 22:45:54 2235860 Link 1 |
It is common knowledge that there is a huge funding imbalance in favour of Dublin. It's well documented and I think that it shows immense stupidity on the part of other counties to participate in something as toxic as that. Boycott is the only solution. Of course they would never have the guts to do it but they really should.
qwerty368 (Kildare) - Posts: 69 - 15/09/2019 22:51:17 2235862 Link 0 |
Absolutely, I completely agree. But look, we had a number of counties voting to keep them in croke park not so long ago when donegal rightly proposed a level playing field. Turkeys voting for Christmas essentially and voting against the interests of their very own players. You couldn't make it up. The gaa is full of that sort of gombeenism, hard to take it seriously. qwerty368 (Kildare) - Posts: 69 - 15/09/2019 22:56:47 2235864 Link 0 |
He, she may know as much as you. And anyone who follows GAA reasonably closely now know about the strategic funding that Dublin received. It's a fact, it has been received and in the millions. Comparisons with Tyrone and Kerry are nonsense. Garavghy cost Tyrone €3m, at the expense of a lot of other areas of Tyrone football. That's a fraction of the funding Dublin got. So too what Kerry Group contributes to Kerry. As for someone putting Donegal into the mix on an earlier thread, utter nonsense. We live on scraps compared to Dublin, but as a county we're used to fending for ourselves, including the many people who work in NI or get on a plane on a Sunday Evening to go to work in London or Glasgow over the decades. Elverys got mentioned also - they went into financial administration, bankruptcy during the downturn.
DonegalAtlantic (Donegal) - Posts: 111 - 15/09/2019 23:05:36 2235866 Link 0 |
Easy to be constantly in the gym when you don't have four hour round trips to training???? ……….Yeah, ever try getting from one side of Dublin to the other in rush hr traffic. It takes me two hrs to get home after work most days, and I live with 15 miles of my workplace. Many of my rural dwelling colleagues are home an hr before me!!!!! PatdeVerse (Dublin) - Posts: 107 - 15/09/2019 23:05:47 2235867 Link 0 |
Dublin2015-2019 Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3732 - 15/09/2019 23:11:27 2235873 Link 2 |
I think there still can be a debate over who is the greatest team of all time. Yes Dublin are the first team to do 5 but remember the Kerry team that did 4 came back and then won a 3 in a row. They also tended to win their finals by bigger scores (2 of Dublin's 5 went to replays). In the 9 years the 2 championship games Kerry lost were to last minute goals. None of this is to lessen what Dublin did. In a few years I think there will be no debate as I certainly don't think this Dublin are near the end of their cycle (before the drawn All final Dublin were shorter odds to win 8 in a row than Kerry were to beat Dublin in this final). But for me AS OF Yet I don't think winning 5 automatically makes them better than Kerry's 4 in a row team considering that basically that same Kerry team subsequently won a 3 in a row in 84/ 85/ 86. Its also hard to compare Kerry's team back then to Dublin now as while Kerry basically had the same players in their run this Dublin group has a bigger turn over of players and has changed quiet a bit from when they started winning.
bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1347 - 15/09/2019 23:23:24 2235876 Link 0 |
Lads, go and enjoy the celebrations, why bother with Hoganstand. Switch off for a while and live in the moment
PointRoad (Louth) - Posts: 111 - 15/09/2019 23:52:32 2235880 Link 1 |
Pat Gilroy had a huge impact aswell they had a lot of poor management teams before him. i agree though the the funding needs to be brought up at congress funding needs to be at least level per capita. also need to go back to 15 + 3 subs centerfield (Mayo) - Posts: 360 - 15/09/2019 23:58:44 2235882 Link 0 |
This Dublin team are an excellent side and their success should be celebrated, I would never deny or begrudge them that one bit. Take a bow lads and soak up all the plaudits and praise as you deserve it. Stephen Cluxton particularly is a man and player I believe should be singled out. He took a right few sore results in his early Dublin career but stayed the course and in my opinion IS the BEST Gaelic football keeper the game has seen. In fact I believe this has been one of his best years form wise and think he's a stand out for Player Of The Year. Ulsterman (Antrim) - Posts: 9702 - 16/09/2019 00:54:23 2235888 Link 0 |
Do you really think "Bon" and "lillylanger" are kildare people?? Their both living here but are the type of Dub fan you see in your local that are wearing the XXXL Dublin jersey (but the belly still sticks out) while Dublin are playing on 1 TV but their watching Man U on another.. And as soon as the soccer is over their gone even if the Dublin match is still on.. When they leave the whole bar laughs and shakes their heads in unison! This has happened more than once i can tell ya..
cuttothebone (Kildare) - Posts: 163 - 16/09/2019 01:12:15 2235892 Link 2 |
You can't compare Kerry group with AIG. Huge international group, sponsors of the all blacks.
BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 16/09/2019 01:27:20 2235897 Link 0 |
In fairness NO County need complain you all had your chance last year when Donegal tabled the motion of the Dublin bias and no-one backed them so good luck to Dublin you all had your chance! letterkennyGuy (Donegal) - Posts: 153 - 16/09/2019 01:31:04 2235898 Link 0 |
Kerry Group 540 million euro turnover in 2018. AIG 14.5 billion euro turnover in 2018. So 28 times the profits of Kerry Group. Again the financial imbalance is there. Congrats to Dublin yesterday on their 5 in a row. But I wouldn't be honest if I didn't mention the caveat of funding. Kerry were as good as 14 Dublin men for 40 odd minutes in the drawn game. They held 15 Dublin men for the replay for the first half. Kerry were out on their feet by 55 min. This supreme conditioning is bringing Dublin home. Now the usual thing expected in Ireland is to be a Patsy, bite your tongue, and congratulate the winner. But there are advantages that can't be overlooked. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 16/09/2019 01:41:20 2235900 Link 0 |
You see money and gym work won't work aswell in hurling. It's skills are more from background, carrying the hurl as soon as you can walk. Harder to buy success in hurling. A light team like Laois could out hurl a 'gym' team like Dublin this year as they were more natural hurlers with better stick work. Also your best hurler by a mile is Con O'C. Keaney gave his best years to the footballers too. Now at 36/37 his best years behind him. BliainanÁir (Laois) - Posts: 598 - 16/09/2019 01:47:23 2235901 Link 0 |