Now that the mickey mouse tournaments are finsihing up , the real stuff is beginning again. This is I think a massive game not just for Kildare but for the rest of Leinster too. The Dubs have been on a holiday for the last couple of weeks while Kildare have been slogging it out for the last 8 weeks. If we go up to dublin and take a bad beating I think it could really effect us. If the second best team in Leinster cant put it up to half fit dublin team then there is no hope. That being said we have a good team in kildare that is improving all the time and looking forward most people are positive but next saturday v dublin is massive. Nervously looking forward to it..

11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 365 - 20/01/2018 09:06:03    2069404

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 20/01/2018 09:43:07    2069411

Kildare will be well up for this and i think it will be close hopefully anyway, leinster needs a good kildare team.

mightydubs (Dublin) - Posts: 48 - 20/01/2018 10:26:52    2069416

Looking forward to it as well, Dublin Vs Kildare was one of the most enjoyable games of football for me last year.

I actually think Kildare might sneak this, think they have played a bit more football then Dublin during the winter and have a few lads who have come back from injury and will be hungry for this to push onto to the panel.

That said i wonder will they miss any of the Moorfield lads.

TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 20/01/2018 10:28:37    2069417

Dublin where doing a good bit of warm qeather training in south Africa and are in decent shape. I expect them to go very strong against kildare similar to Cavan last year when everyone expected a bit of an experimental side but barring niall scully it was pretty strong ..

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 20/01/2018 11:18:04    2069422

Kildare look to be strong but I still give them another few months till they can get around to beating Dublin.
As much as I would love to see Kildare beating Dublin, I just don't think they are there just yet.
Dublin 4+

oakleafersir (Derry) - Posts: 808 - 20/01/2018 13:06:39    2069440

Dublin to win by 8+
Kildare will probably target other games to pick up enough points to stay up which I think they will do.

The_Fridge (Tyrone) - Posts: 2088 - 20/01/2018 13:59:23    2069455

Dublin to win by 10, a professional team will almost always beat an ameture team.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 20/01/2018 14:12:39    2069456

Dublin by 9 in second gear , then the media to get hard and praise how great Kildare are.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 20/01/2018 14:26:57    2069462

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 20/01/2018 15:36:02    2069469

Didnt realise it was a training camp dublin were on, I thought it was a holiday.. Dubs arguably aheaf of us in preparation in that case.

11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 365 - 20/01/2018 16:02:24    2069474

I'm just can't wait for the season to get started, it will definitely give us an idea on where Kildare are in terms of competing with Dublin in Leinster. Only one more week now!

Hill16Army (Dublin) - Posts: 88 - 20/01/2018 16:29:22    2069478

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 20/01/2018 16:50:24    2069479

All the advantages lie with Kildare in terms of prep.

Dubs have been on holidays and they may have done a bit of training but I'm sure there was plenty of cocktails on the go too.

I want to see a fresh young Dubs team start and give Basquel, O'Gara, P Small, Byrne, McHugh etc a good run out

I'd be happy enough just to stay up and be competitive enough, it wouldn't bother me much if we lost a couple of games

Try and blood young players while being as competitive as possible, resting older lads, and then slowly reintroducing players a few games in.

jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 20/01/2018 17:42:32    2069484

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 20/01/2018 18:16:52    2069491

Whatever the result is it will have as much bearing as our league game with Tyrone last year.

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8591 - 20/01/2018 22:20:17    2069542

kildare73 (Kildare) - Posts: 854 - 21/01/2018 02:25:48    2069568

Dublin might be a little bit cold with so many players missing pre season.
That said they should beat a dude who flatters to deceive.

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 21/01/2018 09:57:36    2069588

Over 14,000 views in a day?

gaelicgab (USA) - Posts: 878 - 21/01/2018 10:55:10    2069603

Interesting game this one, kildares record against Dublin in last 4 or 5 years has been poor but there's no doubt Kildare are finally starting to catch them, hard game to call if Dublin arnt match fit then Kildare can beat them, which would be a big result for Kildare to finally get one over on the dubs, Kildare by one, I've a fealing I'm going to get slaughtered for that prediction from some of fellow county posters

Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 665 - 21/01/2018 13:36:23    2069651