Leinster Senior football championship 2024

[Shamrock Shore]

Missed the game as I am over here in Texas chasing total eclipse.

Longford crowd was poor. We are losing our support. Need a grassroots campaign to get supporters back.

That said, I knew we had little hope agin Meath. But to score 3-12 on them has to worry O'Rourke. If we score 3-12 then Dubs could score 400-800 next week.

5 week break to Tailteann - could lose half the panel to God-knows-anything!

[Dunneroyal]

Missed the game as I am over here in Texas chasing total eclipse.

Longford crowd was poor. We are losing our support. Need a grassroots campaign to get supporters back.

That said, I knew we had little hope agin Meath. But to score 3-12 on them has to worry O'Rourke. If we score 3-12 then Dubs could score 400-800 next week.




5 week break to Tailteann - could lose half the panel to God-knows-anything!

Meath will get murdered if that is how we play v Dublin. Colm again goin on with the Latin bs. Set a team up properly for gods sake. At this stage I'd take a 20 point loss.

[Rossfan]

Missed the game as I am over here in Texas chasing total eclipse.

You could have stayed at home....no Sun seen in Longford all day today

[seafoid]

Missed the game as I am over here in Texas chasing total eclipse.

Longford crowd was poor. We are losing our support. Need a grassroots campaign to get supporters back.

That said, I knew we had little hope agin Meath. But to score 3-12 on them has to worry O'Rourke. If we score 3-12 then Dubs could score 400-800 next week.

5 week break to Tailteann - could lose half the panel to God-knows-anything!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

[Shamrock Shore]

Less a tha Seafoid. That song drove me mental back in the day!

We actually got to marvel at it. Clouds fecked off on time.

Next eclipse that's handy is in Northern Spain on 12 Aug 2026. Won't miss any matches for this.

[Dunneroyal]

Never before has Dublin been 1/50 to beat Meath. Colm has brought us back so much he's undone the foundations set in place by Andy and would rather give quotes in Latin than actually manage a team properly, he is blessed with some of the best players Meath have produced in over a decade. And is wasting it all. If Meath co board doesn't act at end of championship then is the supporters must vote with our feet.

[seafoid]

Never before has Dublin been 1/50 to beat Meath. Colm has brought us back so much he's undone the foundations set in place by Andy and would rather give quotes in Latin than actually manage a team properly, he is blessed with some of the best players Meath have produced in over a decade. And is wasting it all. If Meath co board doesn't act at end of championship then is the supporters must vote with our feet.

I don't understand why Meath bother playing Dublin in Leinster. What is the point ? It isn't  a match . It isn't sport  Why don't they invalidate the match by playing with 16 players and hand the problem over to the Leinster council ? They are in the Sam  Maguire anyway.

Blaming Meath misses the point. How can they win ? They can't . The GAA has destroyed its own competition. 

In 6N, Italy were losers for years but due to the correct structures they made progress and won 2 matches this year. Compare their trajectory to that of the football teams in Leinster. 

I couldn't find another example from elite level sport of a team winning 13 championships in a row . County championships don't count.

[imtommygunn]

So what are you suggesting? Should there be a leinster championship without dublin or should there be no leinster championshipt?

[HiMucker]

Never before has Dublin been 1/50 to beat Meath. Colm has brought us back so much he's undone the foundations set in place by Andy and would rather give quotes in Latin than actually manage a team properly, he is blessed with some of the best players Meath have produced in over a decade. And is wasting it all. If Meath co board doesn't act at end of championship then is the supporters must vote with our feet.

I don't understand why Meath bother playing Dublin in Leinster. What is the point ? It isn't  a match . It isn't sport  Why don't they invalidate the match by playing with 16 players and hand the problem over to the Leinster council ? They are in the Sam  Maguire anyway.

Blaming Meath misses the point. How can they win ? They can't . The GAA has destroyed its own competition. 

In 6N, Italy were losers for years but due to the correct structures they made progress and won 2 matches this year. Compare their trajectory to that of the football teams in Leinster. 

I couldn't find another example from elite level sport of a team winning 13 championships in a row . County championships don't count.

Rosenborg won 13 Norwegian league tittles in a row from 1992-2004

[imtommygunn]

Bayern are on 11 though Harry Kane has put an end to that 

[Rossfan]

Whatever about Dublin dominating Leinster (they are) surely a County like Meath with its tradition, population and economic advantages should at least be fielding as good or better teams than Monaghan, Ros etc.

[Armagh18]

Whatever about Dublin dominating Leinster (they are) surely a Cpunty like Meath with its tradition, population and economic advantages should at least be fielding as goid or better teams than Monaghan, Ros etc.

Dublins fault.

[imtommygunn]

Whatever about Dublin dominating Leinster (they are) surely a Cpunty like Meath with its tradition, population and economic advantages should at least be fielding as goid or better teams than Monaghan, Ros etc.

Exactly - they have had the league and the back door and now the new championship (assuming they are in it). Kildare are like that too. The leinster championship ends with only one game a year - there's loads more games.

[seafoid]

So what are you suggesting? Should there be a leinster championship without dublin or should there be no leinster championshipt?

It's broken so either it's dumped or it's fixed.

Dublin is out of control . The system worked as long as Dublin was disorganised. Sports often have this problem of a big population centre or financial centre that is disproportionate to the rest.  In Rugby it's England and France. The solution is to give the 6 teams the same money allocation, not to give England and France the money raised in their countries. 

I don't know exactly how US sport works in detail but they value competition very highly and have drafts to even out teams.

Something is going to have to be done with Dublin but until people demand change nothing will change. This is about power.

"Policies in motion tend to stay in motion ; to change the trajectory of a deeply embedded set of initiatives requires the application of political forces of equal motion "
Steve Walt

[full moon]

Am I correct in saying Meath gave up home advantage as management want to play this game in Croke Park? I think that is not the correct move if so. Also that the game is on RTE?

The Dublin funding disparity and complete domination needs to be faced head on, unfortunately the likes of RTE, Leinster council and even Croke Park HQ are all on the Dublin train and refuse to tackle this issue head on. Not surprising when most of RTE and Croke Park HQ are involved in Dublin GAA clubs.

It's probably a wider issue in the country though, the complete domination of Dublin as the economy of the island and rest left to fend for the scraps, and being run into the ground. As the current government are finding out they looked the other way for too long.