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Give it a rest about Dublin - some of you were obviiously born with a Jarlath Burns pathological dislike of everything Dublin- you have to bring into everything - utterly pointless comment and really shows how many plonkers are members of this site.

hats off to tyrone- dublin again completed another England cricketing collapse which has been our trademark since the late 1980's.
I often marvel at tyrone's tactical awareness on the line and how they always get it right. They have such highly adaptable players who can play in a variety of positions they have the scope to change their system where as Dublin players can only play in one or two positions.
Tyrone simply have better players than we have and their full whack i believe will win the All-Ireland this year. People will start having a go at the Dublin management again -but I don't think we have the players. Caffrey's mistake was not selecting his best 15 because Dublin should have gone all-out to win their opening game. Some of the newcomers like Connolly and brennan did some good things with the fade-out in the second half from the whole team was remarkable.
I thought both teams were cynical enough - i don't believe dublin lack steel most of the players would tackle a wall- i just think we're not quite good enough and when this tyrone team are finished they will rank as a pretty special outfit as they have5/6 players who wuld compare with any players from any other era.

tyrone man i've got my abacus out - maybe things are different up north.

1- cullen
2- whelan
3- ryan
4- cahill
5- shocko
6- cosgrove/sherlock
7- quinn

7 maybe 8 who can't count now???

not going to happen we're happy enough to play in parnell- kerry supporters wouldn't watch kerry in their own back gardens in a league game - mullvihill should keep his big gob shut an odd time rather than uttering such utter tosh.

i think you'll find if look at the background to the story properly you'd understand it better like:

a- dublin weren't as talented as kerry they were coming from nowhere - it took a special man like heffernan to put them together. that was a story in itself Could O Dwyer have done the same- no.

b-the kerry team is characterised by bitching and in-fighting and the fact most of them hate the sight of each other made it difficult to get them to open up. the dublin team have remained good friends and quite frankly are far more interesting characters in terms of writing about- nobody suggested dublin were a better team.

c the reality is anyone could have trianed that kerry team- very few (if any)could have done what heffo did broke down the barriers of tradition and gave dublin back theirs- kerry would always have been good - in dublin the gaa was on its knees. again nobody suggested dublin were ever the better team.

i don't see any justification for having brennan on the bench based on form and i doubt anyone can come up with an argument to say why he should be there for me he's been the most consistent player over the 3 games.

i disagree about grennan i think his views actually don't make any sense and harp back to a bygone era that by and large we have left behind us.

just on  a point of reference
"One would think that Tom is the died-in-the-wool ground-roots GAA man that we should all aspire to be. Other than going to watch a few under-14 camogie matches and regularly being in attendance at club and county games that he probably gets in free for, I'd like to know what makes him so special that he feels he has the right to diss me and tell me to keep my opinions to myself. Is he in the fields on a saturday morning with a gaggle of kids setting up drills, carrying water, offerring pearls of wisdom from his vast exposure to our games over the years? Is he putting up nets, putting down flags, ringing players, ringing the opposition to arrange games, organising lifts, washing jerseys?"

tom did that with the camogie team he trained not that in my view it's relevent to the argument because i don't think it is. tom writes his own column and to be fair he's entitledto his views - and i'm not saying everyone has to agree with them.