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you could pump all the money in the world into some counties and it won't make them fitter or better footballers !!! I'm thinking of my own county. Putting millions into it wouldn't make the current squad any better. Unless there's a transfer market..... we already say the results of one such attempt !!!!!! StirringIt (Cavan) - Posts: 374 - 29/08/2017 13:00:37 2040027 Link 0 |
Sure isn't the problem in rural Ireland is that everyone is moving to Dublin and the other problem traveling expenses. There must be about 100k in Dublin when the likes of Kerry, Mayo and Doengal have training listening to a few lads on here and the complexities of moving about 8 fellas around the country. :)
TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 29/08/2017 13:05:37 2040029 Link 0 |
Between 2004 and 2009 Kerry won 4 of 6 all-ireland football titles. Laois76 (Laois) - Posts: 1270 - 29/08/2017 13:13:30 2040033 Link 8 |
Mayo are as fit as Dublin , simple we aimed to peak this year and are doing so at the correct time , the so called professionals you mentioned have been rested and had their fitness brought on correctly IMO this year. T Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 29/08/2017 13:16:34 2040037 Link 0 |
Mayo are as fit as Dublin , simple we aimed to peak this year and are doing so at the correct time , the so called professionals you mentioned have been rested and had their fitness brought on correctly IMO this year.
Damothedub (Dublin) - Posts: 5193 - 29/08/2017 13:17:37 2040039 Link 2 |
Population argument again for splitting Dublin in two. GAA & in particular Football is the only sport where this seems to be mentioned. Genuinely, as a Kerry fan how would you feel if people were suggesting Kerry should be split in two? gingerdub (Dublin) - Posts: 11 - 29/08/2017 13:30:17 2040049 Link 0 |
you are right about cork they do have more clubs,but why do dublin get 75% of the funding and the rest of the country combined get 25%?
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 29/08/2017 13:31:57 2040052 Link 1 |
I think the dead atmosphere at a full Croker on Sunday save for a few tasteless OIes suggests that Dublin fans are even bored of the situation at this stage. AgainstTheOdds (Kerry) - Posts: 47 - 29/08/2017 13:34:10 2040053 Link 0 |
People would want to remember when Dublin weren't winning all Ireland's they had the biggest population and I would imagine they still had the most revenue. It's a 30 man team game of you train the players properly and get your tactics right then why can't anyone do well? Spoddgy (Mayo) - Posts: 660 - 29/08/2017 13:35:18 2040057 Link 1 |
Open the lid but you find any brilliant footballers in there! realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8586 - 29/08/2017 13:36:08 2040061 Link 1 |
This is the crux of the issue for me as indeed is the size of some clubs in Dublin.......there should be far more GAA clubs in Dublin given its size and population
PaudieSull1 (Down) - Posts: 738 - 29/08/2017 13:41:05 2040063 Link 0 |
Splitting Dublin up with have a seriously detrimental effect on our fan base, then what? realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8586 - 29/08/2017 13:41:30 2040065 Link 1 |
You do presumably believe the GAA should be in the business of promoting - the GAA? right? How would you do that? Explain how you would abandon the current model and go with a new one that excludes the FACT that approx 30% of the population lives in Dublin? Just ignore Dublin and everything the GAA earns (from Dublin) gets 100% ploughed back in, Dublin would stlii have their own revenues because of its population. Dublin part finances the promotion of the GAA through its own funding, very few other counties do that. Every new player brings with them potentially a new family of fans, followers helping finance the whole edifice. Your model excludes Dublin and Dublin players, clubs from any kind of subvention, based on a prejudice that Dublin clubs get money - name one? I go around the country and see these huge GAA grounf=ds some exclusively and unashamdely promoting a single code - where did all that money come from? Certainly not from the local county board.
arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4895 - 29/08/2017 13:50:15 2040072 Link 0 |
You are right, the Dublin team seem to be peaking at just the right time and fair dues. Look you cannot escape the fact that the current crop of Dublin players are brilliant. However if you are a weaker county, can you rest some of your best players to peak in the summer months - I doubt it. What do you think the solution is? Do we just keep pumping money into Dublin? Mayo, Kerry and Tyrone are well funded and well run but as for the rest I really worry. Green_Gold (Donegal) - Posts: 1873 - 29/08/2017 13:50:43 2040073 Link 0 |
I'd laugh at the notion of the 14th highest populated county with 3% of the Republic's population having to be split Also we are well down the funding foodchain, so I'd fall on the floor laughing AgainstTheOdds (Kerry) - Posts: 47 - 29/08/2017 14:00:29 2040079 Link 0 |
What are you talking about 75% and 25%. Those figures aren't even close to being correct. GAA set to tackle issue of Dublin funding and have concerns over 'vicious circle' of team expenses http://the42.ie/3217517 14% they got. They've got around 20% of the population of the entire island. Their population is younger than average too. Ok they've also got a lot people not interested in the GAA but there's plenty in N Ireland with zero interest. The money they get seems pretty ball park correct. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4210 - 29/08/2017 14:02:22 2040082 Link 3 |
So if population and funding is what wins you All Irelands, how come Kerry have won so many?
GaaGaa78 (UK) - Posts: 285 - 29/08/2017 14:12:38 2040095 Link 1 |
Can you back those %'s up? We'll wait.
GaaGaa78 (UK) - Posts: 285 - 29/08/2017 14:13:38 2040096 Link 0 |
But that doesn't matter realdub. All that matters is we stop winning because apparently because of us football needs to be saved.
GaaGaa78 (UK) - Posts: 285 - 29/08/2017 14:14:29 2040097 Link 1 |
No its not because as Dublin keep saying they have more sports to compete with so a lower % of their population plays GAA link Per capita gives a far more accurate view and shows why many neutrals are not happy €274 per player as opposed to €15-20 and we are supposed to pretend it's a level playing field........................ AgainstTheOdds (Kerry) - Posts: 47 - 29/08/2017 14:16:17 2040099 Link 1 |