More luck to them!

Cute_Kerry_Hoor (Kerry) - Posts: 2518 - 04/03/2014 10:11:09    1554384

This is professionalism, and is also paying a manager for managing Dublin. Either this deal should be cancelled or Dublin should be thrown out of the championship. Not just a simple case of sponsorship.

square_ball_69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 826 - 04/03/2014 10:12:18    1554385

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And to rub salt into the wounds, AIG will look after the insurance, all we need know is our local friendly Topaz station to provide the fuel free of charge, a bummer about the car tax though.

Pillar will sign them off the road ;-)

Superglue (Kerry) - Posts: 1283 - 04/03/2014 10:19:42    1554390

It will make playing for Dublin a lot more attractive though. In fact no Dublin player is going to hang his boots up now until he absolutely has to. Look what you'd be giving up!

doublehop (Kildare) - Posts: 4172 - 04/03/2014 10:19:55    1554391

It is bit ironic that the only county with any decent public transport and has to do the least travelling gets a lock of cars for themselves. Still, Toyota obviously feel its a good deal for them, fair play to Dublin CB too. If Toyota felt they'd get as much exposure sponsoring Roscommon or Carlow they'd do that instead. Its business at the end of the day.

decky (Roscommon) - Posts: 384 - 04/03/2014 10:31:06    1554399

I say fair play to them, it is the typical Irish attitude that if someone other than yourself is succeeding, people start moaning about them. I am a bit worried when more teams start following in the footsteps of Dublin, negotiating large sponsorship deals, getting cars for players, etc. The amateur element of GAA will be taken out of it and it will be become professional. I think that is the day I will stop following the GAA, hurling and football will be a no contact sport with aload of pre-madonas calling themselves ridiculous nicknames with it printed on the back of their shirt.

cashelard (Meath) - Posts: 46 - 04/03/2014 10:39:29    1554406

This is hardly new as indeed some Cork hurlers had sponsored cars from a dealership or what not in their prime, Ben O'Connor had one from a dealership in Charleville IIRC.

Fair play to them, but who decides who gets one?

Will the chairmans wife need one for dropping the kids off to school?

bricktop (Down) - Posts: 2503 - 04/03/2014 10:44:52    1554410

When they said Mossy was going to add a bit of drive to the team I didn't think to take them literally!

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 04/03/2014 10:45:46    1554411

8 for football
8 for hurling
8 cars with 5 people in each
takes 40 people to the match
the van then bings the gear

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 04/03/2014 10:52:52    1554418

GAA Stopped being amateur the day Joe Rabbite signed with Ivomec!!!! :)

Good to see the vast vast majority of non Dubs here see the ridiculousness and blinkered vision of the original post

Fair play lads :)

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 04/03/2014 11:09:04    1554438

There's a clear difference between an individual getting sponsored and receiving a car for managing a team, a deal reached by your county board. This is identical to Westmeath receiving 30,000 euro from a sponsor and just dividing it amongst the players. This is professionalism and needs to be stopped.

square_ball_69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 826 - 04/03/2014 11:27:41    1554450

Didn't the Kerry boys get a fleet of Zanussi's a few years back.

derrymore (Kerry) - Posts: 180 - 04/03/2014 11:40:03    1554456

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if they did I'm sure Mayo would snap up 6 of them


That is funny :D

realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8808 - 04/03/2014 11:46:26    1554461

Kildare would build a garage and claim they were there along......

Liamwalkinstown (Dublin) - Posts: 8166 - 04/03/2014 11:59:35    1554466

Lads, this is not the first time the Dublin team gotten cars! And 16 for a panel of 60??? Remember its for the hurlers and footballers.

witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 04/03/2014 12:03:42    1554470

Good luck to them - what Dublin seem to be doing right now and indeed over the last while is putting 100% into everything.

I don't understand why this post is introduced with such negativity.

Ban (Westmeath) - Posts: 1477 - 04/03/2014 13:11:47    1554517

Everyone needs to take a step back and see what's happening , Mossy Quinn quit a good job in the private sector to become marketing manager for the dubs . They hired Mike Farnan as a senior consultant (what does his duties include). Mike Farnan has worked with manchester united and other clubs in england . United had a big sponsorship deal with AIG and now Dublin have a big deal with AIG . All of a sudden Mike Farnan is hired as a " SENIOR CONSULTANT" . Is there a connection. If we have learned anything over the last few years it is that consultants only look out for themselves.

DmacInny (Kerry) - Posts: 2 - 04/03/2014 13:44:03    1554538

Cars are small potatoes.

In Donegal we have a big yellow bus parked right in front of the goal!!!

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 04/03/2014 13:55:42    1554551

Whatever about the toyota car but the one about the GAA's National Sports Complex being built in Blanchardstown is a complete joke. It's basically a de facto centre of excellence for Dublin GAA without them having to lift a finger.

I'm actually flabbergasted that no county boards have kicked up over this. This is nothing short of a disgrace.

batterburger (Cork) - Posts: 161 - 04/03/2014 14:06:22    1554559

Maybe a few more county boards need the drive (no pun intended) the Dublin board have demonstrated rather than complaining about unfair advantages. I'm happy enough with the Tyrone boards commercial activities all the same.

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 04/03/2014 14:11:55    1554562