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Fair enough,entitled to your opinion of course, albeit i cant really see where you're getting it from. Im neutral on this rivalry and would have enjoyed watching Dublin ,especially their breakout win in 2011 which was a great occasion but the facts are the facts. Dont forget that the Dublin hurlers enjoyed a massive surge in performances around the same time that that Dublin football team started to get motoring too. The hurlers could realistically have won the all Ireland in 2013,,something thats almost unthinkable before or since. The theory went that the GAA were concerned by the growth of rugby and soccer,rugby especially, and wanted to create a successful Dublin team that would help in the battle for hearts and minds. Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 424 - 14/11/2026 14:56:38 2700351 Link 0 |
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Rightly so too. Why would we want fewer people playing Gaelic Games? There's been great work done in clubs in Dublin to grow and spread the game over the past couple of decades, to the point where there are thousands more young players playing hurling and football now. Dublin have the most players, but it's not that much greater than Cork's number of registered players. Croke Park is in our capital city. All the big teams play there often enough. I certainly wouldn't be using it an excuse for Dublin beating Galway this year. That'd be a cop-out. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 3171 - 14/11/2026 15:37:03 2700354 Link 0 |
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Where did you get this theory? Rugby and soccer were always strong in the city. Soccer was always the number one participation sport in Dublin and still is massively. There was a revitalisation of gaelic games in Dublin on the back of Heffos army and gaelic has held it's own since. The GAA centrally did not put Gilroy and Gavin and Farrell in place, they did not put an ever before unprecedentedly talented group of players in place, so talented they had the likes of Connolly, B Brogan, Mannion, McManamon, McAuley, Costello often together, no squad ever had this array or depth of talent, that's the advantage they had, that's why the won 6 in a row, undefeated in over 40 championship games on the way and coming back to win another in 22.
sligo joe (Dublin) - Posts: 1194 - 14/11/2026 16:18:31 2700356 Link 1 |
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Im not suggesting that players use it as an excuse,,im suggest that the real cop out is for Dublin fans to simply attribute their success to solely having a better mentality and a better bench. Ill ask you a question. You say theres been great work being done in Dublin the last few decades in spreading the game. Do you think the GAA played a part in that? And if so,how? Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 424 - 14/11/2026 16:43:28 2700357 Link 0 |
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Dublin won by having a better group of players than their rivals. Some of the finest players to ever play the game. Of course the GAA played a part in growing the game in Dublin and rightly so as I said. Dublin has the lowest proportion of registered GAA players per population. Vast amounts of Dublin were complete wastelands for the GAA. Many areas still are, but things have improved. WanPintWin (Galway) - Posts: 3171 - 14/11/2026 17:55:21 2700365 Link 0 |