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That's total nonsense. Kildare beat them last year. Are you honestly saying Kildare are ai contenders in next 5 years?? Meath have beaten them past 3 years (not this year) at minor/new minor level. Yet we not gonna beat them at senior. Totally different set up.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/08/2019 18:10:16 2224812 Link 1 |
No boylesports actually. What I can't get is they 9/1 for 9 in row, but they drift to 12/1 for ten?? Why the big jump. Look Dubin John has ensured the 10 in a row. This is money for old rope would the bank give you twelve times ur investment in 5 years?? Not a hope. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/08/2019 18:12:55 2224813 Link 1 |
Same goes for other counties' minor and U20 teams presumably. Cork look like they are getting their act together in fairness. I think maybe 4 or 5 of those lads may transition to senior if not more. Dublin have a backbone of key players on the verge of retiring, all between 29-31 plus Clucko. If they all go in the same year or even over two years, no county could replace them no matter how good your minors or U20s are.
Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 12/08/2019 18:15:03 2224814 Link 10 |
https://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/gaa/gaelic-football/gaelic-football-news/dublin-already-odds-six-row-18920594
tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1336 - 12/08/2019 18:15:21 2224815 Link 0 |
This Dublin and Mayo team started out around the same time in 2010 the Mayo team who should have won a few allirelands have now gone into serious decline while Dublins team have got younger and more successful and are heading for history in the 1st of September.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 12/08/2019 18:19:19 2224818 Link 2 |
waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 12/08/2019 18:48:58 2224834 Link 9 |
The only gombeens around are those pretending Dublin don't have it in the bag. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 12/08/2019 20:01:49 2224870 Link 10 |
No it's a cert. the only question is, is a bought all ire as good as a won one??? Not saying that dubs don't have extremely talented players x they do. But the money helps. Come on are devenish gonna get a bunch of cows to moo? Are bradys gonna slice up a lilly ham? Is jack slator going to get a talking Renault? No but aig can get the all blacks to wish dubs well. There is 31 county competing at a different financial level, and financial doping is better than epo.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/08/2019 20:30:53 2224884 Link 3 |
Don't put your money on 12/1 it will never happen. tirawleybaron (Mayo) - Posts: 1105 - 12/08/2019 20:59:59 2224895 Link 2 |
Are you putting your money on 10 in a row?
legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7840 - 12/08/2019 21:37:26 2224913 Link 1 |
Absolutely not. Sure Kerry people keep telling us how young their team is, how great the've done this year and that it's a year too soon to beat the Dubs. On this evidence the Dubs will be lucky to get 5 let alone 10 with our creaking 30 year olds about to hang up their boots. Our golden generation is coming to an end. Kerry are just starting their period of dominance.
Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 12/08/2019 22:03:30 2224927 Link 9 |
Seeing as that post was sarcasm you're pretty much putting your money on the 10. That's about as close to an admission we'll get from a dub these days.
Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 12/08/2019 23:12:57 2224957 Link 9 |
Dublin wont do an 8 in a row. They probably wont even do a 6 in a row. Ridiculous that they are odds on to win the next 2 All Irelands. If nothing else, boredom will get the better of them. When you have achieved "immortality" what more is there to achieve? I think they will win this year but I will be surprised if some hungry pretender doesn't come through next year and beat them. PoolSturgeon (Galway) - Posts: 1903 - 13/08/2019 05:24:50 2224988 Link 1 |
Another boring thread about Dublin - endless BS, who cares if they win 10 in a row! The Dublin media rarely mention how the cunning BA used state funding to get the Dubs into a totally dominant position. Dublin's success is tainted by a disgraced politician, one of their own, unfortunately. The comparison with Kerry or the KK hurlers is odious. baire (Galway) - Posts: 1791 - 13/08/2019 07:57:21 2224997 Link 5 |
I never said they were young lads just that they were not starting in 2015 along with 7 of the other current starters which would indicate there is a constant conveyor belt of excellent good footballers. Compare this to Kilkenny - they had more or less the same players during their period of dominance. When those players retired Kilkenny fell back into the pack. hopballref (Galway) - Posts: 377 - 13/08/2019 08:13:27 2224998 Link 2 |
Never heard as much rubbish, Not a word about money when Kilkenny were going for 5 in a row and rightly so. Avonmore/Glanbia are one of the biggest corporations worldwide with Vast resources as AIG. Yet people to big enough to see that it was Cody and an extremely hard working top class group of players alone that drove their dominance. People need to stop making begrudging excuses for their own counties short comings. Kildare had more success under sponsorship of Tegral than they'll ever have under Brady Ham down to the plain simple fact we had better players. Plain and simple. I'm pretty sure that come 5.30 on the 1rst of September when the dubs have completed 5 in a row they went give a fiddlers about how people think they "bought" it. The history books will tell the only thing that matters and to hell with the begrudgers. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 1908 - 13/08/2019 09:11:01 2225015 Link 9 |
Oh is that all it takes? Just one or two possible all star winners each year? Here I'll get on to Horan now and tell him, the gap will be closed in no time.
jonjon (Mayo) - Posts: 99 - 13/08/2019 09:52:17 2225028 Link 2 |
Not sure if you are having a go at my comment or agreeing with me in the fact that Dublin, due to population, are capable of bringing in one or two top quality players each season ... ?
hopballref (Galway) - Posts: 377 - 13/08/2019 15:00:31 2225150 Link 1 |
By "Dublin media" I presume that you mean national media, headquartered in the capital. I'm not too sure how many reputable GAA journalists would be from Dublin either. I stand corrected but if memory serves, the commencement of the flow of serious cash to Dublin GAA was sanctioned by a Kerry man, Sean Kelly, who was GAA president at the time. I'm not too sure on what basis this Dublin team's achievements would be tainted, they never won an AI through the back door and they have to play 8 games to win one. Has it ever been this difficult for any team? I would argue, no.
Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 13/08/2019 16:12:10 2225168 Link 11 |
Mind, sand can be far hard on the ears.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 13/08/2019 17:21:31 2225192 Link 0 |