Quote from: Main Street on July 15, 2023, 01:32:28 PM
Looks like it's going to be a dirty NFL weather day for this game..
It looks like it's starting to clear here TG
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Main Street on July 15, 2023, 01:32:28 PM
Looks like it's going to be a dirty NFL weather day for this game..
Quote from: seafoid on July 14, 2023, 12:06:49 PM
Paul Flynn of the 6 in a row team on the unpredictibility of semifinals in his experience.
https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2023/0714/1394516-paul-flynns-weekend-football-predications/Dublin and Monaghan clash this weekend
Through my experience, I've learned the hard way that semi-finals throw up surprises. We learnt that in 2014 playing Donegal when we were favourites going in and we sucker-punched.
Quote from: Captain Scarlet on June 05, 2023, 08:37:04 PM
Will the Dubs rest lads v Sligo? Like even with 2 weeks off will they mind lads coming back from injuries or Con's hamstring...
Quote from: larryin89 on June 02, 2023, 07:56:01 PMQuote from: The Hill is Blue on June 02, 2023, 06:46:33 PMQuote from: seafoid on June 02, 2023, 05:30:44 PMQuote from: imtommygunn on June 02, 2023, 05:07:19 PMEvery so often a big team is taken out in the championship , usually because they aren't as good as people expect.
No way will Kildare beat Dublin. I'd love to see it but I don't see it or close...
Kerry v Down in 1991 was a classic of the genre.
Meath v Westmeath 2015
I've been at a few that we lost against the odds:
Dublin v Meath 1964
Dublin v Kerry 1975
Dublin v Kerry 1978
Dublin v Donegal 1992
Dublin v Derry 1993
Dublin v Down 1994
Dublin v Donegal 2014
2012 v Mayo surely the same as Donegal in 14
Quote from: seafoid on June 02, 2023, 05:30:44 PMQuote from: imtommygunn on June 02, 2023, 05:07:19 PMEvery so often a big team is taken out in the championship , usually because they aren't as good as people expect.
No way will Kildare beat Dublin. I'd love to see it but I don't see it or close...
Kerry v Down in 1991 was a classic of the genre.
Meath v Westmeath 2015
Quote from: seafoid on May 30, 2023, 06:40:34 PMQuote from: The Hill is Blue on May 30, 2023, 04:04:17 PMWinning Leinster is meaningless. Winning D2 isn't much to shout about eitherQuote from: onefineday on May 29, 2023, 11:59:05 PMQuote from: The Hill is Blue on May 29, 2023, 12:26:28 PMNonsense, Dublin are a pale shadow of what they were for most of the last decade.
A great performance by Roscommon yesterday. But surely no one can be surprised by this. They are a strong team who have battled it out with the top teams in the country over the past year and who came to Croke Park well prepared for the game. They came up against a Dublin team who had not been exposed to the required level of intensity for some time - and yet in the end Roscommon were lucky to get away with the draw. It may be that this will be the closest Roscommon will get to Dublin for some time.
So far this year kildare should have closed out the Leinster semi, Derry beat them, Clare should have held on, cork had a great chance to beat them too, didn't see the first kildare league game, but all of these games were more or less the minimum margin, they've had plenty of tight intense games this year.
Some fair points there.
Of course "Dublin are a pale shadow of what they were for most of the last decade", and it's for that reason that Dessie Farrell spent the league and Leinster Championship trying to beef up the squad. They didn't go out trying to wipe teams out but at the end of the day they managed to win Leinster and finish top of Division 2.
If we're honest, with the new championship format, it's very hard to assess where any of the teams stand now. There are a lot of games to be played yet. And we're all hoping for the best for our own favourites.
COYBIB
Quote from: onefineday on May 29, 2023, 11:59:05 PMQuote from: The Hill is Blue on May 29, 2023, 12:26:28 PMNonsense, Dublin are a pale shadow of what they were for most of the last decade.
A great performance by Roscommon yesterday. But surely no one can be surprised by this. They are a strong team who have battled it out with the top teams in the country over the past year and who came to Croke Park well prepared for the game. They came up against a Dublin team who had not been exposed to the required level of intensity for some time - and yet in the end Roscommon were lucky to get away with the draw. It may be that this will be the closest Roscommon will get to Dublin for some time.
So far this year kildare should have closed out the Leinster semi, Derry beat them, Clare should have held on, cork had a great chance to beat them too, didn't see the first kildare league game, but all of these games were more or less the minimum margin, they've had plenty of tight intense games this year.