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Nice double header in the football this Sunday for the Dubs, with the Jackies in the Ladies Leinster Senior Football Final v Kildare at 12. Our Ladies beat Meath at the weekend by 1-11 to 0-05 Dublin v Westmeath throws in @2pm. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4955 - 11/05/2026 09:27:34 2672222 Link
Replying To Fionn: "Nice double header in the football this Sunday for the Dubs, with the Jackies in the Ladies Leinster Senior Football Final v Kildare at 12. Our Ladies beat Meath at the weekend by 1-11 to 0-05 Dublin v Westmeath throws in @2pm." Surprised how easily they beat Meath who must have slipped a lot. Be interesting to see how many turn up. Kerry/Cork was 30,000 where some were predicting not half that. Westmeath will bring a big crowd but don't detect any groundswell for our lads. Will go if we have a good day in Salthill! BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4299 - 11/05/2026 11:29:37 2672267 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Surprised how easily they beat Meath who must have slipped a lot. Be interesting to see how many turn up. Kerry/Cork was 30,000 where some were predicting not half that. Westmeath will bring a big crowd but don't detect any groundswell for our lads. Will go if we have a good day in Salthill!" Yep another busy weekend ahead for many of us dual code supporters. Yep, not hearing much interest about the Final either tbh - hopefully a big crowd of us turn up. It is really our only realistic chance of silverware this season after all. As for the Hurling, expecting a backlash from the Galway men on Sat. Although we beat Wexford, I think we have a lot of improving to do based on that performance. But it is in us. We are better than we showed, imo. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4955 - 11/05/2026 12:57:10 2672304 Link
Replying To Fionn: "Yep another busy weekend ahead for many of us dual code supporters. Yep, not hearing much interest about the Final either tbh - hopefully a big crowd of us turn up. It is really our only realistic chance of silverware this season after all. As for the Hurling, expecting a backlash from the Galway men on Sat. Although we beat Wexford, I think we have a lot of improving to do based on that performance. But it is in us. We are better than we showed, imo." The build up to the Leinster final has been very muted indeed or at least I've just not heard much being spoken about it. I know Westmeath are ramping things up and rightly so, will be a great occasion for them but our lads simply can't get caught up in any of that craic and just put them away. Handicap with the bookies is -6 and I'd expect us to be close enough to that. I'm hearing some of the injuries have cleared up with two big returnees to the bench who will hopefully see some action but hopefully as an added bonus late on and not actually being needed! As for the hurlers and heading to Galway, I just don't know what way this will go. Less than impressive v a very flat Wexford side last weekend and if we cough up similar chances to Galway then we could very well be beaten. TrueBlue35 (Dublin) - Posts: 328 - 13/05/2026 14:23:15 2672793 Link
Replying To TrueBlue35: "The build up to the Leinster final has been very muted indeed or at least I've just not heard much being spoken about it. I know Westmeath are ramping things up and rightly so, will be a great occasion for them but our lads simply can't get caught up in any of that craic and just put them away. Handicap with the bookies is -6 and I'd expect us to be close enough to that. I'm hearing some of the injuries have cleared up with two big returnees to the bench who will hopefully see some action but hopefully as an added bonus late on and not actually being needed! As for the hurlers and heading to Galway, I just don't know what way this will go. Less than impressive v a very flat Wexford side last weekend and if we cough up similar chances to Galway then we could very well be beaten." Spot on. I will head to Galway more in hope than expectation. The bigger one is at Home to the Cats in The Neller. We have a better chance in that one. Bad few days for our underage teams in both codes in Leinster. For me, this really needs to change soon.... We have to be more competitive. I look at the likes of other counties who are consistently challenging at underage. We need to get to that stage. As for Sunday, Westmeath will bring huge numbers to Croker. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4955 - 14/05/2026 12:57:59 2672947 Link
Dubs squad has been announced, for the Leinster Senior Football Final v W/meath on Sunday: Comerford Clancy Doran Byrne McMahon McMorrow Kennedy POCB Howard Bugler Scully Kilkenny Small McGinnis Cossie subs- O'Sullivan, Lahiff, Smith, O'Connor, Murphy, Guiden, Dunne, White, N O'Callaghan, Breathnach, McEneaney. Still a few out injured, but I am expecting a certain player to make it tbh. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4955 - 14/05/2026 20:53:24 2673048 Link
Dubs Hurling squad for the trip to Galway on Sat:- Gibbons Groarke Smyth EOD Crummey Rushie C.Burke B.Hayes Donohoe Whitely D.Burke Power Purcell Hetherton O'Sullivan subs: Brennan, Lucey, O'Riain, Gaffney, McHugh, Bellew, O'Dulaing, Dunleavy, Purcell, Doyle, R.Hayes. Looking forward to heading down and seeing how we do against a very good Galway team. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4955 - 15/05/2026 00:45:06 2673080 Link
That was brilliant. Best display by Dublin team in over ten years. Guaranteed qualification and good chance of making final. The defence with Rushie there has transformed team. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4299 - 16/05/2026 18:31:34 2673349 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "That was brilliant. Best display by Dublin team in over ten years. Guaranteed qualification and good chance of making final. The defence with Rushie there has transformed team." Top win away and a great way to win it with the two brothers combining. Hopefully Part 1 of a great weekend Beelzedub (Dublin) - Posts: 507 - 16/05/2026 19:56:16 2673374 Link
Replying To Fionn: "Spot on. I will head to Galway more in hope than expectation. The bigger one is at Home to the Cats in The Neller. We have a better chance in that one. Bad few days for our underage teams in both codes in Leinster. For me, this really needs to change soon.... We have to be more competitive. I look at the likes of other counties who are consistently challenging at underage. We need to get to that stage. As for Sunday, Westmeath will bring huge numbers to Croker." Dubs will need to get the Tyrone lads down again. Beelzedub (Dublin) - Posts: 507 - 16/05/2026 20:10:29 2673378 Link
Fantastic win.One of the best brayballer (Wicklow) - Posts: 577 - 16/05/2026 22:25:44 2673410 Link
Well done Dubs a great win,, best of luck for the rest of the year. juan31 (Wexford) - Posts: 174 - 16/05/2026 22:46:15 2673417 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "That was brilliant. Best display by Dublin team in over ten years. Guaranteed qualification and good chance of making final. The defence with Rushie there has transformed team." Congratulations. Delighted for Dublin hurling and also that it might also quieten a lot of the noise west of the Shannon. But I'm sure that a lot of them will still mouth on regardless. foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 2537 - 17/05/2026 01:22:35 2673444 Link
Weather looking ominous. Looks like big crowd expected. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4299 - 17/05/2026 09:18:26 2673459 Link
Fair play to the Dubs, yesterday knew how to manage the conditions and the game when it was their for them. Concerning couple of weeks for us, but hopefully we'll meet again in a few weeks. ColmFlaherty (Galway) - Posts: 44 - 17/05/2026 10:24:08 2673470 Link
Around 30,000 confirmed so far in tickets, 15,000 of that Westmeath in fairness that's close to 20% of population, that's a massive amount of people. You need to remember 67,000 at Meath v Louth last year was two counties with a population of 365,000 people dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 945 - 17/05/2026 11:47:12 2673494 Link
I was accused of talking yerra before this game. Beelzedub (Dublin) - Posts: 507 - 17/05/2026 17:18:13 2673586 Link
Replying To Beelzedub: "I was accused of talking yerra before this game." Yerra or not Westmeath were better than us.Once POCB went off we were killed midfield.I wonder did the Ger Brennan thing affect us?Our ollder players were our best.Need to beat Louth now and get back on the Horse. brayballer (Wicklow) - Posts: 577 - 17/05/2026 17:27:50 2673591 Link
Westmeath will remember today for the next 60/70 years. Dublin fans will forget about it this evening. A huge day for them. Well done westmeath, delighted for them. waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13659 - 17/05/2026 17:40:01 2673592 Link
Dublin players tried to the end to be fair to them, Westmeath were just fitter and deserved their win. A bigger concern for Dublin would be that they were outnumbered by Westmeath supporters in a home final. peiledoir20 (Donegal) - Posts: 1603 - 17/05/2026 18:11:11 2673600 Link