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Things That Seemed Ridiculous At Start Of Decade That Actually Happened

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That Limerick with a homegrown manager would win an A! senior and also that a Limerickman would manage Galway hurlers! ONdeDITCH (Limerick) - Posts: 873 - 30/12/2019 23:11:28 2256590 Link
Replying To TheHermit: "A county that was a laughing stock at inter-county level suddenly winning 7 All Irelands! But I'm sure money had nothing to do with it, or the home advantage, or the professional set-up :D" You don't sound bitter at all:D DuhallowRed (Cork) - Posts: 268 - 30/12/2019 23:30:30 2256592 Link
Replying To TheHermit: "A county that was a laughing stock at inter-county level suddenly winning 7 All Irelands! But I'm sure money had nothing to do with it, or the home advantage, or the professional set-up :D" How come Kerry didnt complain about this in 04,07 and 09??? hamsterdean (Limerick) - Posts: 223 - 31/12/2019 01:38:25 2256600 Link
Dublin GAA becoming a national obsession. Gaelic Football? Completed it! ;) TheUsername (Dublin) - Posts: 4445 - 31/12/2019 10:13:24 2256608 Link
That Kerry, for all their talent, could only manage the 1 All Ireland all decade & that Dublin became the monkey on their back. What a turnaround. lilylanger (Kildare) - Posts: 758 - 31/12/2019 10:30:04 2256610 Link
Replying To TheUsername: "Dublin GAA becoming a national obsession. Gaelic Football? Completed it! ;)" So you didn't see that your county with 10 times more population and receiving more than 10 times the funding of your nearest rival and playing all yer games at home wouldn't inevitablely start winning all around ye? You being a propagandist would have loved if there was no social media so all this could have been kept under raps. Brushed under the carpet so to speak but there you go and more will come out eventually. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 31/12/2019 11:01:01 2256613 Link
That 3/4 Kerry posters would ruin this forum Breffni40 (Cavan) - Posts: 12122 - 31/12/2019 11:41:57 2256619 Link
Jim Gavin... who'd have known! Mickey Harte still in charge of Tyrone despite not having added another Sam to the noughties haul. London playing in a Connacht final. Meath, having put the Dubs to the sword in 2010, to then fall off a cliff as rivals for the remainder of the decade. Kerry having real problems finding defenders to match their endless stream of forward talent. Mayo continuing to have real problems finding reliable forwards to match their endless stream of defensive talent. Tyrone failing to beat any significant rival outside of Ulster. The Gooch being forced to defend against his marker, Cork footballers starting as talented champions but then losing their way for the whole rest of the decade. That the Kilkenny winning 5 in a row would be from Dublin! Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 31/12/2019 12:12:14 2256622 Link
That the decade would end with a Mayoman talking sense! witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 31/12/2019 14:24:25 2256642 Link
Replying To lilylanger: "That Kerry, for all their talent, could only manage the 1 All Ireland all decade & that Dublin became the monkey on their back. What a turnaround." Football was cyclical before the dubs/ money became an issue in this decade. We were always going to regress this decade after winning 5in the previous 1. Kilkenny are going through the lull now as are Cork Tyrone Donegal and mayo also. Dublin won't go through this cyclical lull due to population money and home advantage. The football championship is bad now but the roaring 20s will finish it off for good. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 31/12/2019 16:02:15 2256649 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "So you didn't see that your county with 10 times more population and receiving more than 10 times the funding of your nearest rival and playing all yer games at home wouldn't inevitablely start winning all around ye? You being a propagandist would have loved if there was no social media so all this could have been kept under raps. Brushed under the carpet so to speak but there you go and more will come out eventually." The BOS saga..and the coverup that followed...what's the odds of the Amazon mouthpiece writing about that!! jacktheDub (Dublin) - Posts: 944 - 31/12/2019 16:19:47 2256653 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "So you didn't see that your county with 10 times more population and receiving more than 10 times the funding of your nearest rival and playing all yer games at home wouldn't inevitablely start winning all around ye? You being a propagandist would have loved if there was no social media so all this could have been kept under raps. Brushed under the carpet so to speak but there you go and more will come out eventually." More to come out hope to god that's true..BOS???? jacktheDub (Dublin) - Posts: 944 - 31/12/2019 16:28:39 2256656 Link
Replying To Breffni39: "That 3/4 Kerry posters would ruin this forum" Replace Kerry with one Dublin poster and you'd be right oneoff (UK) - Posts: 1380 - 31/12/2019 16:41:22 2256658 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "So you didn't see that your county with 10 times more population and receiving more than 10 times the funding of your nearest rival and playing all yer games at home wouldn't inevitablely start winning all around ye? You being a propagandist would have loved if there was no social media so all this could have been kept under raps. Brushed under the carpet so to speak but there you go and more will come out eventually." And the whingers of the decade are ? -:) superbluedub (Dublin) - Posts: 2837 - 31/12/2019 16:42:52 2256659 Link
Replying To Breffni39: "That 3/4 Kerry posters would ruin this forum" Ditto 4 or 5 Dubs and their other county alter egos eh "Cavan man"?!!! TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 31/12/2019 17:50:56 2256666 Link
This isn't meant as a dig, but given their dominance at all levels in the 2000's, Kilkenny not winning an U21/U20 AI in the last decade is not something many people (outside KK at least) would have predicted. And given the uncompetitive nature of the championship at AI level as the 2000's drew to a close, it would have seemed unlikely that 5 different counties would an AI in the following decade. But here we are. Marlon_JD (Tipperary) - Posts: 1823 - 31/12/2019 17:53:20 2256667 Link
Replying To Pericles: "Jim Gavin... who'd have known! Mickey Harte still in charge of Tyrone despite not having added another Sam to the noughties haul. London playing in a Connacht final. Meath, having put the Dubs to the sword in 2010, to then fall off a cliff as rivals for the remainder of the decade. Kerry having real problems finding defenders to match their endless stream of forward talent. Mayo continuing to have real problems finding reliable forwards to match their endless stream of defensive talent. Tyrone failing to beat any significant rival outside of Ulster. The Gooch being forced to defend against his marker, Cork footballers starting as talented champions but then losing their way for the whole rest of the decade. That the Kilkenny winning 5 in a row would be from Dublin!" That the decade would end with a Mayoman talking sense! witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 31/12/2019 18:33:07 2256669 Link
The GAA organising schedules to suit a British media outlet was a jaw dropper That we would badly miss Michael Lysters presentation style on Sunday game Marty Morrissey becoming a household name outside of GAA coverage The GAA abolishing the equal treatment of counties in football championship and banishing teams into a second tier competition based on another competitions results. Collapse of the Leinster football championship as a meaningful entity Stooker (Leitrim) - Posts: 63 - 31/12/2019 18:41:55 2256670 Link
Replying To TheHermit: "Ditto 4 or 5 Dubs and their other county alter egos eh "Cavan man"?!!!" Well said kingdomboy/hermit hamsterdean (Limerick) - Posts: 223 - 31/12/2019 19:00:08 2256673 Link
Replying To skillet: "Got 0% affiliation with the county in question and only marginally more interest in football, but God above, they are deserving of a bit more respect than that... Laughing stock!! Are you serious.. It really does seem to kill you Kerry lads that you don't saunter to an all Ireland final every year by playing 3 or 4 matches. Bitterness indeed. Kilkenny utterly dominated hurling between 2004-14, they weren't liked but they were respected.. Respect to Dublin, they're worthy champions" It really does seem to kill you Kerry lads that you don't saunter to an all Ireland final every year by playing 3 or 4 matches. Bitterness indeed. This is spot on! It's why I have no time for the Kerry supporters i know and the majority of the online boys. lilylanger (Kildare) - Posts: 758 - 31/12/2019 19:43:05 2256676 Link