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Replying To brayballer: "Yes Dubs have resources and yes we have some advantages but you need talent too and the Dubs have that in spades.Loads of counties have big backroom teams like Roscommon but they just dont have the talent." Never questioned the talent of the the greatness football team ever; Dublin. Suggested in my previous post that I expect Dublin to win leinster at least, this year. You are right. I am sure that the many Dublin coaches mentioned by Ger Brennan yesterday should be able to source a bit of talent from the population of county Dublin which now exceeds 1.5 million. letsgetgoing (Roscommon) - Posts: 800 - 12/09/2025 17:25:48 2635908 Link
Replying To letsgetgoing: "Never questioned the talent of the the greatness football team ever; Dublin. Suggested in my previous post that I expect Dublin to win leinster at least, this year. You are right. I am sure that the many Dublin coaches mentioned by Ger Brennan yesterday should be able to source a bit of talent from the population of county Dublin which now exceeds 1.5 million." The health of games and every other metric is in inverse proportion to population growth. Have you been in Dublin recently? Close to half the population is non Irish. State figure is 25% so other urban centres be same soon. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3709 - 12/09/2025 23:00:49 2635930 Link
Replying To brayballer: "The hurling has been a farce so far and will continue this weekend I think. Vinnies to win easily. Barrog to win and Na Fianna to win easily v Lucan.." 2 very one sided games tonight in the Dublin SHC:- Barrog 1-23 v Judes 0-11 Vinnies 5-22 v Whitehall 1-15 Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 12/09/2025 23:22:18 2635933 Link
Replying To letsgetgoing: "Never questioned the talent of the the greatness football team ever; Dublin. Suggested in my previous post that I expect Dublin to win leinster at least, this year. You are right. I am sure that the many Dublin coaches mentioned by Ger Brennan yesterday should be able to source a bit of talent from the population of county Dublin which now exceeds 1.5 million." How many of that 1.5 million are Dublin people? How many of that 1.5 million are foreign people ?How many of that1.5 million are involved with the GAA ? superbluedub (Dublin) - Posts: 2890 - 12/09/2025 23:28:25 2635936 Link
Replying To superbluedub: "How many of that 1.5 million are Dublin people? How many of that 1.5 million are foreign people ?How many of that1.5 million are involved with the GAA ?" Around 40,000 registered GAA players in Dublin. Leitrim,Fermanagh around 3,500. Ros round 6,500 Seanfan (Roscommon) - Posts: 116 - 13/09/2025 11:39:11 2635958 Link
Replying To Seanfan: "Around 40,000 registered GAA players in Dublin. Leitrim,Fermanagh around 3,500. Ros round 6,500" GAA thrives on communities. That aspect of GAA is being rapidly lost in Dublin. There are once strong clubs in working class parts of the county that are struggling to survive at underage and that is being reflected now in adult grades. Where are O'Toole's? Once one of the powerhouses of hurling in the city. Lots of other examples. People slag the middle class "super clubs" but they survive because they are based in stable communities which have not yet experienced what is coming. Not optimistic at all. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3709 - 13/09/2025 11:47:03 2635959 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "GAA thrives on communities. That aspect of GAA is being rapidly lost in Dublin. There are once strong clubs in working class parts of the county that are struggling to survive at underage and that is being reflected now in adult grades. Where are O'Toole's? Once one of the powerhouses of hurling in the city. Lots of other examples. People slag the middle class "super clubs" but they survive because they are based in stable communities which have not yet experienced what is coming. Not optimistic at all." O'Tooles not where they were back in the 90s (intermediate now) but currently building a new astropitch & gym so still going bad.monkey (USA) - Posts: 4673 - 13/09/2025 14:38:04 2635995 Link
Dublin SHC results:- Barrog 1-23 v Judes 0-11 Fianna 0-25 v Lucan 1-18 Boden 2-29 v CC 0-12 Vinnies 5-22 v Whitehall 1-15 Cuala 0-26 v Crokes 1-21 Brigids 2-23 v Plunketts 2-20 The performances of Cuala & Plunketts surprised me tbh. Fair play to them both. A word too for Barrog. Na Fianna timing their run, it seems. Lots left in them to up it to another level. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 13/09/2025 21:54:08 2636035 Link
Dublin SHC 1/4 Final draw:- Fianna v Cuala Lucan v Brigids Crokes v Barrog Vinnies v Boden. I think we could have 2 crackers, and 2 one sided games. Na Fianna v Cuala in the 1/4 Final - wow... This could be a hell of a game.... Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 13/09/2025 21:58:13 2636036 Link
Replying To BarneyGrant: "GAA thrives on communities. That aspect of GAA is being rapidly lost in Dublin. There are once strong clubs in working class parts of the county that are struggling to survive at underage and that is being reflected now in adult grades. Where are O'Toole's? Once one of the powerhouses of hurling in the city. Lots of other examples. People slag the middle class "super clubs" but they survive because they are based in stable communities which have not yet experienced what is coming. Not optimistic at all." You are spot on Barney. All this talk about the amount of clubs and players in Dublin - when in reality we have only 5 real contenders for the Dublin SHC title, and about the same for the Dublin SFC. But the scary thing is that the same 4 clubs are in both of those top 5 SHC & SFC - Crokes, Cuala, Na Fianna, & Boden. This is Not a good statistic..... Very bad in fact. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 13/09/2025 22:09:40 2636038 Link
https://hoganstand.com/Article/Index/337891 And this was exactly my point.....! His backroom team needs additional experience in there. Hopefully he is working on getting additional coaches, with experience, in. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 17/09/2025 11:41:05 2636552 Link
Replying To Fionn: "https://hoganstand.com/Article/Index/337891 And this was exactly my point.....! His backroom team needs additional experience in there. Hopefully he is working on getting additional coaches, with experience, in." I'm losing faith in your opinion if you're reaching out to "click-bait" Pat for back up. Surely there could be an advantage there, in that this management team are not burdened by past experiences and can approach the task more adventurously maybe, they are young but have all played at the highest level under proven managers, they strike me as four of the most tactically aware players of their era. To have a more experienced coach involved with them? yes it could be a plus but not necessarily so, let them at it I say! sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 1014 - 17/09/2025 12:57:38 2636569 Link
Replying To sligo joe: "I'm losing faith in your opinion if you're reaching out to "click-bait" Pat for back up. Surely there could be an advantage there, in that this management team are not burdened by past experiences and can approach the task more adventurously maybe, they are young but have all played at the highest level under proven managers, they strike me as four of the most tactically aware players of their era. To have a more experienced coach involved with them? yes it could be a plus but not necessarily so, let them at it I say!" "....they strike me as four of the most tactically aware players of their era..." Really - can you please elaborate on that..????? Sure we could say that about any of the Dublin players during our successful era. But you claim these are 4 of the most tactically aware.... I could name a forward more tactically aware and definitely a defender, and a midfielder also. As for "this management team are not burdened by past experiences...." - we have had more successful experiences over the past few years. Again, a very lazy point you make... Anyway, your initial point doesn't hold water whatsoever... No coaching experience could come back to bite us in the ass big time. HOPEFULLY NOT THOUGH....! Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 17/09/2025 16:35:53 2636603 Link
Replying To sligo joe: "I'm losing faith in your opinion if you're reaching out to "click-bait" Pat for back up. Surely there could be an advantage there, in that this management team are not burdened by past experiences and can approach the task more adventurously maybe, they are young but have all played at the highest level under proven managers, they strike me as four of the most tactically aware players of their era. To have a more experienced coach involved with them? yes it could be a plus but not necessarily so, let them at it I say!" And by the way, I never have a problem with being proven wrong, and if the current setup and Ger, go on and win Sam, I will be more than delighted that they prove me wrong. But I honestly think additional coaching experience should be added. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 4661 - 17/09/2025 16:44:26 2636604 Link
Replying To Fionn: "And by the way, I never have a problem with being proven wrong, and if the current setup and Ger, go on and win Sam, I will be more than delighted that they prove me wrong. But I honestly think additional coaching experience should be added." For me it's not about being proven right or wrong. If we do well next year it doesn't mean we couldn't have done better with an experienced coach or two on board or on the other hand if we fail to perform we will have no true evidence that experienced coaches would have made the difference. Personally I like the potential excitement of a relatively inexperienced management team but also a very streetwise one working together get us back to the summit. sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 1014 - 17/09/2025 20:38:39 2636619 Link