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Replying To brayballer: "Ah you ve gone soft Fionn lol. Seriously though I agree it would be nice for a club like Dingle and manys a pint I had there.Great town for craic. They are 10/ 1 with Paddypower alright and Boden now hot favourites to win it out. Think Boden will beat Dingle easy tbh as surely Mark O Connor will be back in Oz and Dingle already missing their top midfielder Barry Dan O Sullivan with cruciate unless he back for january. If Boden were nt in it Id be rooting for Dingle altho Im a northsider lol. Enjoyable game yesterday and looking forward to Kilkoo v Scotstown next week." LOL ;o) Maybe so.... Well if a kerry team is to win it, I would like Dingle to be that team... Northsider myself... so no affiliation to Boden at all. Kilcoo gave Scotstown a bit of a trimming the last time they met. But I was impressed with Scotstown so far this year. I still think those are crazy odds 10/1 I can see quite a few people putting a euro or two on that.... even with O'Connor missing it, most likely. Although if they got to an AI Final - I bet Dingle would be doing everything in their power to get him back for the Final. Hopefully the weather behaves itself for the last remaining games. Playing games in that muck is a nightmare. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4739 - 08/12/2025 17:31:33 2647528 Link
Dara Ó Cinnéide made good point today about teams with smaller picks competing again big clubs who fill gaps with transfers. Cuala didn't - all their own - but Boden have and its definitely unfair. Transfers are way too high. Needs to be limits, intra county as well as inter county. This is undermining Dublin championship never mind nationally. Boden would not be where they are without the transfers. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3866 - 08/12/2025 22:45:21 2647570 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Dara Ó Cinnéide made good point today about teams with smaller picks competing again big clubs who fill gaps with transfers. Cuala didn't - all their own - but Boden have and its definitely unfair. Transfers are way too high. Needs to be limits, intra county as well as inter county. This is undermining Dublin championship never mind nationally. Boden would not be where they are without the transfers." This annoys a lot of Dublin supporters tbf. A lot of Dublin clubs have/had done this - Parnell's we all know about, Na Fianna, Vinnies, Crokes, Boden, Judes, Plunkett's to name but a few. Fully agree that there should be limits - both intra and inter county. TBH there is no excuse for the likes of Boden or Crokes doing it - the size of their clubs.... You go the club games in Dublin and think, oh wow, he could play for the Dubs and then realise that he isn't eligible.. It is undermining the Dublin championships somewhat imo. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4739 - 09/12/2025 13:09:56 2647631 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "Dara Ó Cinnéide made good point today about teams with smaller picks competing again big clubs who fill gaps with transfers. Cuala didn't - all their own - but Boden have and its definitely unfair. Transfers are way too high. Needs to be limits, intra county as well as inter county. This is undermining Dublin championship never mind nationally. Boden would not be where they are without the transfers." By the way Cuala have used imports in the past - eg Darragh O'Connell. Fine hurler in fairness. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4739 - 09/12/2025 13:12:17 2647633 Link
It's a really tricky one because it's hard to prove a club have actively pursued players to transfer in as is being suggested by a few twitter experts. And then there's the point of what are these lads supposed to do if living and working in Dublin and not in a reasonable commutable distance from their home clubs (4 main ones are from Antrim, Kerry, Mayo and Galway). Take D'arcy for example, he lives out around Knocklyon, works in Dublin and therefore felt it was worthwhile transferring to a club which he felt would give him a better platform to play top level club football but also cement his standing as a Galway starting midfielder, which it has. Win win for both I'd have thought. It has been happening for years in Boden with transfers within the county even i.e. Darran Homan, Dotsy O'Callaghan, further back to Andy McCann from Armagh (all ireland winner) and then plenty of other clubs have done it in both recent times and going further back. Sure UCD were winning club championships lets not forget. TrueBlue35 (Dublin) - Posts: 317 - 09/12/2025 13:53:00 2647649 Link