Thankfully a decent thread about the Dubs. I'm sick of people complaining about the advantages they have. The same ones were always there. However, you have to hand it to Cluxton a super player. It will be interesting to see how Dublin will fare when he goes. Even now when he has wobbled, not often to be honest, the other teams seem to come closer.
As I said recently Farr, the Dubs are not to blame for the lucky position they find themselves in.
If Stephen Rochford had Jim Gavin’s resources, do you think he wouldn’t do the same?
Dublin GAA played no part in enticing thousands of people to gravitate towards the Greater Dublin Region, nor is he responsible for the widespread and most worrying phenomenon of rural depopulation.
Of course, for the long term benefit of the game, Dublin must be subdivided but there is very little to be gained from all other counties moaning about Dublin’s superiority in every conceivable way over the chasing pack.
Has Mayo made any move to summit a development plan to HQ? I doubt it and if a progressive county like ours hasn’t already done so, there’s feck all chance that any other did either.’
Counties are going to have to face the inevitability of amalgamation.
Shag History and Tradition, smoke screens for inertia.
What made sense in 1884 bears feck all relevance to the Ireland of today.
All that said, unless there are monstrumental changes, the rest of Ireland will go the way of Leinster and we can’t blame Dublin for that.
