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Replying To Daith: "Dublin can afford to loose the bulk of their team and regenerate within months because of the huge difference in resources they have over all other counties. I had decided to not attend the Leinster final after 10 minutes of the second game and went to leave at half time only to be beaten out the gate by Dublin fans ahead of me. Even some of their own fans are bored of this farce. The rest of them still get some bizarre kick out of booing freetakers and goading opposition when 16 points up. I don't understand the mentality of that. Its not like there is any sporting merit in their dominance." Getting the excuses in early. This is the same Dublin team who've been relegated out of D1. Meath were very poor today. A decent side would have pushed Dublin a lot closer but Meath were very poor. I didn't see any Dubs leaving at HT and I was in the lower Cusack. I saw plenty of Meath people leaving with 20 or so to go. Meath fans booed the ref off at full time and hurled abuse at him from the lower Cusack. That's probably worth bringing to your attention seeing as though you didn't witness it. Are you going to give Meath fans 200 lines now for their behaviour? The whiter than white Lillies never boo anyone. Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 15/05/2022 19:47:16 2417370 Link
Will Andy McEntee go as Meath manager? I thought they would be closer to Dublin. I think Dublin will take the Leinster title. thelongridge (Offaly) - Posts: 1741 - 15/05/2022 19:50:21 2417371 Link
Replying To TheUsername: "We must have played well, haven't seen post like this in a couple of years. Looking forward to getting a hold of Kildare I'm the hole of the 6 in a row!" Spot on. It's like a throw back to the good aul days when we were in our pomp and the same poster whinging after every Dublin win. The usual topics are covered… Dublin advantages. - check Dublin fans booing. - check Fans are bored. - check Ignore opposition fans booing - check I'm not going to Kildare v Dublin - check We must have played well. A Kildare fan whinging more after a defeat for Meath than Meath fans themselves. You love to see it. We must be back. The white flags of surrender will be waving in the final. Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4700 - 15/05/2022 20:30:13 2417395 Link
Big scores posted today across the two semifinals jimbodub (Dublin) - Posts: 20600 - 15/05/2022 20:39:09 2417400 Link
Replying To thelongridge: "Will Andy McEntee go as Meath manager? I thought they would be closer to Dublin. I think Dublin will take the Leinster title." Did he leave without shaking hands with Farrell? Thought I saw away off down the tunnel at the whistle! He wears his heart on his sleeve so was no doubt frustrated at his own team. I'd imagine he might be seeing his last weeks out. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 2564 - 15/05/2022 20:47:14 2417407 Link
Replying To Daith: "Dublin can afford to loose the bulk of their team and regenerate within months because of the huge difference in resources they have over all other counties. I had decided to not attend the Leinster final after 10 minutes of the second game and went to leave at half time only to be beaten out the gate by Dublin fans ahead of me. Even some of their own fans are bored of this farce. The rest of them still get some bizarre kick out of booing freetakers and goading opposition when 16 points up. I don't understand the mentality of that. Its not like there is any sporting merit in their dominance." Give it a rest will you Kildare have as much resources as any of the top counties, why not get behind your team instead of moaning like an auld one . dubarra (Wicklow) - Posts: 541 - 15/05/2022 21:04:12 2417416 Link
Who really cares about leinster football anymore? Kildare hyped up yet look very ordinary, meath regressing every year, dublin poor compared to recent years yet Mile's ahead of every county apart from kerry, leinster semi finals have to be played in croke Park instead of provincial venues. Style of football is horrendous, goalies have to hit frees no forward capable of kicking them, my god I'm finished with football dec (None) - Posts: 269 - 15/05/2022 21:34:56 2417433 Link
The carrot that was dangled in front of Jim Gavins Dub's is now been dangled in front of Dessie's Dub's and it's working a treat. The Dublin machine is ramping up and won't be stopped, they are most definitely on course to win their 12th leinster title on the trot. At this point it's fair to say, Dublin and a specially hand picked 7 other top counties should contest the All Ireland senior football championship, while the rest of the country should compete in the Tailteann Cup competition. supersub15 (Carlow) - Posts: 2907 - 15/05/2022 21:51:09 2417444 Link
Replying To dubarra: "Give it a rest will you Kildare have as much resources as any of the top counties, why not get behind your team instead of moaning like an auld one ." A1 leinster football bore fest dec (None) - Posts: 269 - 15/05/2022 21:56:08 2417445 Link
Replying To thelongridge: "Will Andy McEntee go as Meath manager? I thought they would be closer to Dublin. I think Dublin will take the Leinster title." I hope so. Embarrassing watching his antics many times after matches and certainly hasn't improved them Shocs07 (Limerick) - Posts: 372 - 15/05/2022 22:02:54 2417447 Link
Replying To thelongridge: "Will Andy McEntee go as Meath manager? I thought they would be closer to Dublin. I think Dublin will take the Leinster title." Yes. Not a chance. Yes. carlovia (None) - Posts: 1517 - 15/05/2022 22:05:04 2417449 Link
Replying To thelongridge: "Will Andy McEntee go as Meath manager? I thought they would be closer to Dublin. I think Dublin will take the Leinster title." Yes. It's his last year. And he will not be back. He tried something different in Meath football over past number of years. It didn't work. Good luck to him he is a passionate Meath man and we thank him for his efforts. As a in house thing the cb should at this stage be already setting in place a system to appoint a new management. We can only hope that will happen. Meath have a extremely young team that need a different voice going forward who that voice is I don't know. On a separate note Dublin were sublime, if they play like that going forward they will be very hard to stop. And I include Kerry in that. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 16/05/2022 07:48:20 2417456 Link
Replying To realdub: "Jaysus old pal yer going backwards, sure we're not even any good this year." Ahh I can't explain what happened, Dublin were fantastic hats off to them. Is it we made you look that good ? Or you really are that good? Only time will tell. But that is as good as a performance against us as any over the last 10 years. We have a very young team but I don't think that can explain what went wrong. We will have to rebuild next year . It really was men against boys. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 16/05/2022 07:52:19 2417457 Link
I would be concerned about the future of gaelic football based on the two Leinster semi final games. They were glorified practice matches. No intensity, no atmosphere ... boring beyond belief. Meath looked like they were beaten before they went out. Westmeath on the scoreboard put up a fight but in reality they never looked like beating Kildare. Dublin versus Meath was awful. People talk that gaelic football is a much better product now than 30 years ago; well give me a game between Meath and Dublin from 30 years ago than this borefest. Dublin and Kildare if kept apart will dominate Leinster going forward. The rest of the counties should amalgamate and create a third strong county!!! wicklowsupport (Wicklow) - Posts: 1910 - 16/05/2022 09:23:17 2417486 Link
Replying To dubarra: "Give it a rest will you Kildare have as much resources as any of the top counties, why not get behind your team instead of moaning like an auld one ." The truth hurts. Cuhullain (Kildare) - Posts: 271 - 16/05/2022 09:43:42 2417496 Link
Replying To wicklowsupport: "I would be concerned about the future of gaelic football based on the two Leinster semi final games. They were glorified practice matches. No intensity, no atmosphere ... boring beyond belief. Meath looked like they were beaten before they went out. Westmeath on the scoreboard put up a fight but in reality they never looked like beating Kildare. Dublin versus Meath was awful. People talk that gaelic football is a much better product now than 30 years ago; well give me a game between Meath and Dublin from 30 years ago than this borefest. Dublin and Kildare if kept apart will dominate Leinster going forward. The rest of the counties should amalgamate and create a third strong county!!!" Last time I am going to say it. Bring the two games yesterday out of Croke Park and you have two serious atmospheres in O Connor Park and O Moore Park. I was at the game yesterday and saw some brilliant football but how many hard hits did I see? None. Watched Derry and Monaghan on the Sunday Game last night when I got home. I had a serious atmosphere with nearly 19000 people packed in to the Athletic Grounds. It got me thinking if that game was played in Croke Park what would the atmosphere be like? Very Poor. Westmeath, Meath and Kildare supporters are as loud as any supporters in the country but when you go Croke Park year in year out and have atmospheres like yesterday it is hard to get excited for the championship. Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 386 - 16/05/2022 09:55:06 2417513 Link
Replying To jonno: "Yep, looks like the Dubs are back firing on all cylinders and the way Kildare were defending today they'll be easily opened up. Attacking was good at times but did a lot of daft stuff when they should have been closing out the game." Did a lot of daft stuff towards the end of the game. Being outscored 0-7 to 0-2 in the last 20 mins isn't the mark of a team that are going to win silverware. I'm not sure if it was a bit of lethargy sneaking in or trying to shut up shop and not concede a goal. In truth probably a mix of both. I'd be more concerned about the goal chances we're conceding though - we tend to have plenty of men back but one poor decision leaves a 1 on 1. On a side note - I've posted on here before about the growth of Rugby in Kildare at the expense of football. It is an absolute joke that the Leinster Final is directly clashing with the European Rugby Cup that Leinster are in. I don't know how these decisions are made. Could we not have held off on the provincial finals for a week when there'd be full attention on the games? The GAA need to have a serious look at how football is being promoted. brianb (Kildare) - Posts: 285 - 16/05/2022 10:04:08 2417521 Link
Very ominous for us going into a Leinster Final and I hope I'm wrong. We are just conceding too much at this stage. and I think one or two of our defenders are a bit suspect. We really have no presence at Centre Back which is a surprise with Glen at the helm. The only slither of hope is that we have played Division 1 all year and were fairly strong although relegated. For what it's worth to Meath I think that Dublin will be hard bet by anyone this year. We won't know about Kerry until they are in Croker. daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 16/05/2022 10:06:09 2417526 Link
Was in for the first game yesterday and was disappointed with the Kildare performance overall. I felt tactically the game plan didn't real suit getting Flynn onto the ball enough as when he did get on it he always looks like something is going to happen. He is just one of those players. I thought McCormack and Kirwan were very good and Hyland was also productive until he was taken off. Those three along with Flynn will certainly need some minding then next day. It's not the forward line that will concern Kildare as 1-21 is a very good return against anyone but conceding 2-15 at the other end against a fairly average Westmeath side will definitely be a concern for Glen Ryan. Westmeath seems to waltz right down the middle on numerous occasions especially after the early goal paved the way for doing it over and over again. Dessie Farrell will be telling the Dubs to do similar I'd imagine the next day and don't think Con, Costello and co will be as wasteful as Westmeath were at times when goals were on. Second game was a non-event after 10 mins or so when we raced into a decent lead. Overall the performance levels are certainly up from the league (that wouldn't be too hard mind you!!) but there seems to be a big increase in cohesion, balance and general will to do the right things. Of course there were some silly mistakes etc but you'd hope those get ironed out before the latter stages. I thought Comerford being back was a big plus as he seems to add a level of comfort to the back line and O'Dell was very busy throughout. Our big players seems to be playing with more freedom now and it's noticeable that we are looking to let the ball in direct to the inside line when the pass is on. Case in point was the penalty Con won. The bench was a bit threadbare taking JC, Scully and Paddy Small out of it - none of the rest are really proven at that level. Hopefully the Davy Byrne cruciate rumours are just rumours and we see him back soon. Robbie McDaid is also missing and nobody seems clear on the extent of his injury just yet. Both would be big big losses for us. As for the final I think if Dublin can build on yesterday (despite the relative no show by Meath) and if Kildare can sort out their defensive frailties then we may see a bit of a game. I say a bit of game as I still think Dublin will pull away and if Kildare can stay with us for 50 mins and leave Croke Park without taking a big beating then that is still not a terrible place to be in going into the qualifiers. It may sound condescending to Kildare but I just can't see anything other than a 6pt + win if not more unless things really malfunction for Dublin. On the Leinster Championship as a whole - it's a busted flush now and having the games in Croke Park are doing nothing to help things. Any Dub would have loved to head down to Portlaoise yesterday or even if there was a home and away agreement with Meath then a trip to Navan would have been great. TrueBlue35 (Dublin) - Posts: 206 - 16/05/2022 10:51:11 2417564 Link
Was the Westmeath first goal the quickest ever in championship football? I think it was 7 or 8 seconds. daytona11 (Kildare) - Posts: 4012 - 16/05/2022 10:57:16 2417572 Link