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Just to note that the issue with closing out games for Kildare is not a fitness thing, it's been a mental switch off. SallinsMan (Kildare) - Posts: 77 - 27/07/2021 11:06:27 2364611 Link 0 |
I take it you would have stayed at home for last years semi final so?!?
SallinsMan (Kildare) - Posts: 77 - 27/07/2021 11:09:06 2364614 Link 4 |
Boycotts are for the spineless
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 11734 - 27/07/2021 11:32:08 2364627 Link 2 |
Good honest post there trueblue and I agree with you 100%. Unfortunately for kildare injuries have hit at the wrong time. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 27/07/2021 11:53:13 2364640 Link 1 |
We'd be disanointed to loose this. TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 27/07/2021 12:49:23 2364668 Link 4 |
The link on ticket master has become active in the last few minutes folks. They'll be gone shortly so snap them up now if anyone hasn't theirs sorted yet
Sweetspot (Kildare) - Posts: 323 - 27/07/2021 12:57:04 2364672 Link 1 |
But the day is coming username, maybe not Sunday but soon....disappointment is inevitable.
avonali (Dublin) - Posts: 1974 - 27/07/2021 12:59:38 2364674 Link 9 |
Maybe Cavan people are that stupid, they couldn't wait to get a crack at Dublin last year and then turned on the Dubs when they were beat blaming everything under the sun. Reading what they say they are still anti Dublin.
Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2006 - 27/07/2021 13:11:09 2364684 Link 8 |
Don't believe all the hype lately regards Dublin demise. Offtheball10 (Meath) - Posts: 60 - 27/07/2021 13:13:22 2364685 Link 0 |
Brilliant. Just got 5. Thanks a mill for posting, I'd been watching like a hawk all day to see if they reactivated the link.
Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 27/07/2021 13:22:02 2364693 Link 11 |
Depends, Kildare have been good at taking early leads and seeing out games by shutting up shop. Been helped massively by having one of, if not the best goalkeeper in the country in Mark Donnellan who will very seldom make a mistake or concede. If dunking get an early lead, I fear for how bad it might get. If they don't, this game could surprise many, many people by being tight
Sweetspot (Kildare) - Posts: 323 - 27/07/2021 13:29:59 2364695 Link 3 |
I love your optimism, keep her lit!!
St.Conleth (Kildare) - Posts: 1700 - 27/07/2021 13:50:00 2364709 Link 2 |
Be my take as well mate, i think Kerry rate of growth and our regression has seen them over take us, but id never rule anything out from these exceptional group of men. if we were to pull it off it would be one of the great ones, but would be down to will and determination, cant see it though red flags all over the show. We cant be greedy either, we,ve been spoilt. Not looking beyond Sunday, wed be disappointed to loose, but one game at a time. I think Mayo could take us you know if we get there and there would be a bit of poetic justice in that as our biggest rival, they almost deserve to take us out - even if its on our last legs, id say it would be near a definite if Cillian hadn't got injured. Even Kildare mind, i think they were unlucky in the Leinster Semi against us way back in 11 when the whole thing kicked off, remember being at that game touch and go for a while, O Gara, hero and Villian and i think either Bernard or Alan nicked it, with a questionable goal, i was four sheets though - as per. TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 27/07/2021 14:45:30 2364735 Link 3 |
I still think 2011 was a real sliding doors moment. Dublin won due to a controversial free from a foul that only the ref spotted which still rankles given the trajectory of Dublin since then. The draw would have had Kildare pitted against the Dubs again in the All Ireland semi-final; but owing to a goal disallowed due to a terrible square ball judgment and a great point by Kevin Cassidy it didn't happen so instead we were introduced to Jim McGuinness's blanket in a dire 0-08 - 0-06 semi final. I still remember reading a headline in the paper "Are Kieran McGeeney's Kildare cursed". Since 2011 Dublin have gone from strength to strength turned the leinster championship into a procession but I believe this Kildare team have enough good footballers to trouble anyone on any given day even given the injuries. It will take a below par Dublin performance to turn them over here but Dublin's form so far certainly suggests that that below par day is possible. brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 279 - 27/07/2021 16:13:12 2364778 Link 1 |
2011 had so many sliding door moments thinking back from a Dublin perspective. I agree Kildare could have very easily won that day, i think you call some of the decisions borderline to right. I think the ref was being kind to us as he sent O Gara of very harshly if im remember correctly. I never rated Geezer as a good manger and if im honest i still dont, i think he had Kildare and even Armagh now, well below their potential for talent. Interesting the trajectory of the two counties since, i think we just flatly refused not to win the All Ireland that year. But that year and the following we could be got at, 2013 changed everything and the mentality just got stronger and stronger from there. Thought Kildare made a big error getting rid of Cian myself thought he was doing a terrffic job there ad needed a few more years. TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 27/07/2021 17:54:38 2364823 Link 3 |
Remember that well, a rotten decision which handed dublin the game but this was around the time where Dublin got all these decisions as the gaa wanted Dublin winning all irelands. Only a few years before hand a meath and dublin leinster semi went to a replay. Before the throw in ciaran whelan walked up to nigel Crawford and decked him with a right hook that mike Tyson would be proud of, the whole of croke park seen it apart from the officials. Later on Geraghty scored a perfect goal to win the game but the referee decided to pretend he seen a push and blow for a free out, you'd imagine with it now gone full circle and their domination being bad for the game that they would be on the end of a few dodgy decisions themselves but I've yet to see them on the end of a bad decision in a big game strangely enough
Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 237 - 27/07/2021 18:07:23 2364825 Link 2 |
I disagree strongly, poor decision for the free but Dublin were by far the better team that day and would have won the replay.
realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8586 - 27/07/2021 20:50:17 2364877 Link 6 |
People are stupid for a variety of reasons, like paying into a game, let it be a provincial final, an all-Ireland semi final or simply postings.
supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 27/07/2021 21:34:24 2364893 Link 1 |
Spare a thought too for Wexford in 2011 in the Leinster final. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2524 - 27/07/2021 22:29:17 2364909 Link 1 |
Get over it, the anthem of the losing team, "blame the ref" and you go even farther, the refs were told Dublin have to win, ah you're right, and silly me thinking it was because of Philly, Stevo, R. O'C, C.O'S, Jack, Mick Fitz, McCarthy, MDMA, Fento, Deano, Alan, Berno, Dermo, Killer, Con, and on and on, get over it, six in a row, best team won.
sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 674 - 27/07/2021 22:35:50 2364912 Link 1 |