"There is no right or wrong way to play inter-county football. That is the beauty of the sport. Management can set their team up whatever way they see fit for that particular county. Counties have different cultures as to how they play football. In Dublin we play football the way we inherited it from the managers and players who have gone before us. 2011 was a very interesting game and it was very interesting to see how the game unfolded tactically. I think we will see something similar on Sunday.

"Donegal have been very impressive this season. They have gained promotion back to Division 1 of the league. They had a great provincial campaign, a great win over Monaghan in the Ulster final. Jim has done a fantastic job with Donegal over the past four years. Their great success is a testament to his work - three Ulster titles and an All-Ireland crown is a phenomenal achievement. The Donegal players are very familiar with their system and very comfortable with it."

Jim Gavin In the Examiner.

This is terrible stuff & will really rile up the Donegal players who don't react well to childish mind games. Gavin should look after his team & never mind Donegal. Read between the lines in that interview & it is really hateful stuff.

Have I missed any over reaction there?

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 27/08/2014 08:23:29    1642749

No doubt about it Jimmy has the boys in blue rattled;
if the Dublin players are as affected by Jimmy's
comments as their supporters are then they are in
trouble!

Come on Donegal; do it for the rest of us! ;)

TheGateKeeper (Tyrone) - Posts: 2843 - 27/08/2014 09:14:02    1642764

*massive eye roll

Jackeen (Dublin) - Posts: 4097 - 27/08/2014 09:18:13    1642768

A bit of talk before a big game always makes things extra interesting for the neutrals but in all honesty there hasn't been that much significant talk. In the battle of the Jims, Gavin tends to stay relatively quiet while I heard a bit of McGuinness on Newstalk yesterday and I don't recall him saying anything all significant to stir the pot.

McGuinness will try and pull a Mourinho on it tactically on sunday but I don't think that'll be enough for this Dublin team, will be a very interesting watch though.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 27/08/2014 09:29:09    1642773

"There is no right or wrong way to play inter-county football. That is the beauty of the sport. Management can set their team up whatever way they see fit for that particular county. Counties have different cultures as to how they play football. In Dublin we play football the way we inherited it from the managers and players who have gone before us. 2011 was a very interesting game and it was very interesting to see how the game unfolded tactically. I think we will see something similar on Sunday.

"Donegal have been very impressive this season. They have gained promotion back to Division 1 of the league. They had a great provincial campaign, a great win over Monaghan in the Ulster final. Jim has done a fantastic job with Donegal over the past four years. Their great success is a testament to his work - three Ulster titles and an All-Ireland crown is a phenomenal achievement. The Donegal players are very familiar with their system and very comfortable with it."

Jim Gavin In the Examiner


Now to cherry pick a few phrases to make a story out of this fairly bland interview:

Jim Gavin has slammed Donegals style of play describing it as a "different culture" and dismissed that Donegal pose any threat in this weekends semi final insisting that Donegal can "set up whatever way they see fit" against his Dublin side...etc

Colmcille01 (Donegal) - Posts: 3 - 27/08/2014 10:20:36    1642807

lets be honest what do you say about a match where dublin are 1/10 on.
im sure he wants to say something positive about donegal but as a dublin fan it is quite difficult. Their brand of football goes against the grain of what we teach our kids in clubs, its awful to watch. They are total outsiders to win sam with mayo second fav and then kerry.

heresam (Dublin) - Posts: 156 - 27/08/2014 10:34:35    1642816

Colmcille01
County: Donegal
Posts: 2

Top marks for that. It says more about you than it does about JG or Donegal. :-)

A

Aido69 (Dublin) - Posts: 381 - 27/08/2014 10:41:17    1642826

DLGael
County: Donegal
Posts: 98

1642367 @Rockies Cork - The only thing eroding at the present juncture is the reputation of your fragile football team after a limp Munster campaign and then now perennial exit the first time you meet a big team. I wonder how long yourdual players will persist with the football given your on the road to nowhere.

A bit touchy there DLGael. A person makes a point and you slam the county where they are from rather than the point they make. How erudite of you. He must have nit a nerve then.

You talk about Cork having a fragile football team-maybe so but your great season will yield the same amount of All-Irelands as our dismal season - zero!

bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 27/08/2014 14:51:57    1643023

donegalhills
County: Donegal
Posts: 1

1642379
Did any of you Dubs see the figures quoted in the Sunday papers at the weekend. In 2012 Dublin received 1.5m from Croke Park for player development while Donegal got 43,000. And then you wonder why some think it is not a level playing field. By the way Dublin had 1580 registered teams while Donegal had 543 so by that token Donegal should have got approx. 500k

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Yes and then you blow it all on a jollier to Johnstown House. What would you do with 500k, 3 weeks in the Burj Al Arab in Dubai???
Now look at the total spend for 2012 from both county boards and come back to us. Take the following into consideration, population, number of clubs, dual or single code county.

Joxer (Dublin) - Posts: 4745 - 27/08/2014 15:20:58    1643045

jack goff

judging by the amount of mayo supporters who liked the page
and eventually took tickets for the hill would suggest a lot more then just a few
a few thousand maybe

hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 27/08/2014 15:37:52    1643056

Lads enough of the mind games we'll all see come Sunday,this we're better than you stuff is getting
very boring at this stage,Lets just hope its a cracking game and not like 2011

dirtydub22 (Dublin) - Posts: 4 - 27/08/2014 15:59:52    1643069

Ah you wont here much fron our Jim,very hard to nail down, hes our Verbal kint
While everyone talks about Horan, fitzmaurice and JmG, or the Dublin finances ,Dublin team Dublin being split .Our Verbal queitly slips away. To hatch another ambush. Who is Jim Gavin.

The greatest trick the devil ever did was convince the world he didnt exist and like that ,poof he was gone.

AthCliath (Dublin) - Posts: 4347 - 27/08/2014 21:25:34    1643241