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Replying To PeterQ92:  "Of course Donegal were training in November, everyone knows it, and so was every county in Ireland!

Jack O'Conner is a whinger, always was.
Kerry can stroll into the latter stages of the championship without a glove being put on them, Donegal have Derry in the first round of Ulster. We are operating in different worlds."
Nail on head. If it was the Donegal of 2023 that went down to Killarney, we'd have been beaten out the gate and there wouldn't be a word said about any training.

Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9586 - 11/02/2025 12:13:16    2590575

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Four Masters are doing quite a bit of work, no doubt about it. They train their underage teams all year round bar a month or so. Take effort and organisation.

ThroughTheGap (Donegal) - Posts: 65 - 11/02/2025 16:39:59    2590638

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Replying To PeterQ92:  "Of course Donegal were training in November, everyone knows it, and so was every county in Ireland!

Jack O'Conner is a whinger, always was.
Kerry can stroll into the latter stages of the championship without a glove being put on them, Donegal have Derry in the first round of Ulster. We are operating in different worlds."
Are you a Donegal fan or a troll from some other County?

Because I cannot for the life of me understand how any genuine Donegal fan would be on here spewing that kind of nonsense, which was picked up by some journalists and quoted by Jack O'Connor.

Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1248 - 11/02/2025 18:21:34    2590653

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Replying To ThroughTheGap:  "Four Masters are doing quite a bit of work, no doubt about it. They train their underage teams all year round bar a month or so. Take effort and organisation."
Effort and organisation sure but population helps too. It's no coincidence that Abbott open their doors there in 2006 and 19 years later there's a Macrory final team. Unfortunately that's not an opportunity afforded to most clubs in Donegal bar maybe those in Letterkenny.
They're putting two teams out at most age groups which is a credit to them, it's a numbers game too. They just have the right structures and support around it now and are putting in the coaching work to yield the rewards.
Dublin are the perfect example of this, they always had population but money and coaching yielded 9 all Ireland's in the last 15 years. In the 25 years prior to that with lesser money and coaching they had 1 all Ireland. It all has to come together.

donegalgael-12 (Donegal) - Posts: 14 - 11/02/2025 23:54:36    2590683

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