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Jez lads ye are looking at doing this and that! The reality is that you can have all the systems, Leagues, round robins, back-door, front door, straight knock-out, whatever - the problem is really is a financially doped Dublin football team!

Take Dublin out of the equation and you have good competitive inter-county football. Teams on a slight rise and teams on a slight decline.

Super 8's, All Ireland Championship and Leinster Championships would all be competitive without Financially Doped Dublin!

What the money has done is made GAA respectable in middle class areas & schools thereby vastly increasing the overall participation & giving the county a much larger pool of talented players to pick from.

The fact of the matter is that the Dublin dominance is basically down to the huge numbers they have to pick from plus a very well organised structure & a superb management team. Throw the fairy dust that is Stephen Cluxton into the mix & you have the perfect storm for other counties.

My complaint with the GAA in all this would be that seeing this as a fact of life they should be redistributing their resources away from Dublin, who clearly don't need it anymore, towards replicating the formula everywhere else & levelling the playing field to a certain degree.

Dublin will always have an advantage in numbers & in having Croke Park as their home ground, nothing much can be done about that. The financial side of things can hoiwever be tweaked & it should be.

Thats just an opinion, if it was the truth, Dublin would be winning all completions, in all codes, at all age levels and both genders, not happening, only in Football from U-20.  So thoughtful opinion, but an incorrect one.

Despite the fact that the Games Development Officers don't go near any of the elite players, there is this great myth how these GDOs are doing incredible work turning Dublin youngsters into superstars. And amazingly this training they don't get from the GDOs doesn't kick in until they're over 19!

I hope we have a referee who can count 4 steps in this one. Both these sides have many serial offenders. There was a time people would get annoyed about 7 or 8 steps....not its 12 or 16 that's leading to scores and totally unpunished. Just put the head down and run - seems to be what people get away with now. That's not gaelic football.

I agree on the 12-16 steps comment, that is ripping it a bit, but I would hate to watch a game where the four step rule was rigidly enforced. The tackling in the modern game is so ferocious that games would be ruined. Maybe a change out to six steps would be workable, it seems to be what refs are using as a minimum nowadays anyway.

Some prize for the winner , a semi final v Dublin . Donegal miles ahead of Mayo anyway but I personally would prefer a five/six point defeat to donegal in castlebar rather than a twenty point trimming at the hands of the dubs .

Not the greatest vote of confidence in a team I've ever seen

The player of the Championship so far. Most important player to his team and he always comes through in the clutch. Now if he had sense he would move to Keady

He'd return to his parents county and we'd finally win the shagging thing - maybe

Id rather win or lose  it fairly that have the likes of murphy on the team.

"The likes of Murphy"  What the hell does that mean?

A lot will depend on how many of the Donegal wounded will be fit for action. With two out long term already we can't afford any more injuries if we expect to compete in Castlebar.

Tyrone will be watching the Donegal Kerry game today with a keen eye. If Donegal win then Tyrone can't afford to lose against Dublin, otherwise they are looking at another tanking from their neighbours like they got in June,

Shane shooting the lights out here with the crowd pulling him along hopefully he can do it the weather being bad tomorrow should make it a great watch.

Followed him yesterday and the atmosphere was fantastic.

Great days craic yesterday a phenomenal event organised with military precision hopefully it comes back again!

Get a few more in before the UI?

The Open Championship as far as I known is not limited by rule that it can only be held in the UK, more that it is just a convention. The tournament organisers have even been insistent on discouraging journalists and broadcasters from calling it "The British Open", preferring just "The Open".

Well, Portrush isn't in Britain. That's a factual, inarguable reality

There is no such place as Britain,
Portrush, like the rest of Ireland is part of the British Isles, a geographic description like the Iberian Peninsula, but not part of Great Britain the island which comprises England, Scotland & Wales.

Shane shooting the lights out here with the crowd pulling him along hopefully he can do it the weather being bad tomorrow should make it a great watch.

Followed him yesterday and the atmosphere was fantastic.

Great days craic yesterday a phenomenal event organised with military precision hopefully it comes back again!

Get a few more in before the UI?

The Open Championship as far as I known is not limited by rule that it can only be held in the UK, more that it is just a convention. The tournament organisers have even been insistent on discouraging journalists and broadcasters from calling it "The British Open", preferring just "The Open".

Well, Portrush isn't in Britain. That's a factual, inarguable reality

It isn't the "British" Open, never has been, never will be.

It's The Open Championship.

Dublin just seem to be getting better and better by every year, which is frightening. Although they haven't been fully tested yet, it's hard to see them lose with their power and fitness.

Whatever about the Super 8's, the Leinster championship needs to be abolished next year. Pointless competition. Even the Dubs must be getting sick of it.

I'd say the same about the Munster but at least Cork have the potential to trouble Kerry in the coming years. Then again it's Cork, so who knows.

How does abolishing the Leinster Championship help anything? How does the back door work? How does any Leinster team get into the Super 8's?

Don't know that there's any point in setting up a thread for the Donegal-Kerry game this weekend ....

Main news from Donegal is that Eoin Ban Gallagher is out for the rest of the year with a broken ankle sustained in training. Bitterly disappointing for a young man that was showing all-star form, as well as being very damaging to our prospects in the Super-8's.

Similar to last year when the loss of Paddy McBrearty made our Super-8 challenge even bigger.

Can't understand that attitude. We have a lot of cover in the half back department & while Eoghan Ban is a big loss I would be a lot more worried if we lost Patton, Murphy, Jamie or Paddy.

Did he not get wrecked last year too? Big loss though at least mcglynn can come in. Feel for the guy again.

It was Paddy that got injured last year. More likely to see Eoghan McHugh coming in. Like for like sub.

Clifford gave a exhibition of point kicking last week. Is there s better forward in the game?

Any number of them.

Tyrone by 5
Dublin by 8
Meath by 1
Donegal by 4

I don't often shout for Meath but I'll be hopping around of you can turn this lot over. Just hope someone warns the Meath lads not to touch a Donegal man anywhere over their belly button or they'll be rolling around like Neymar clutching their face looking for cards.


Donegal, generally sound support. Despise this team and manager more than anything Jim McGuinness ever put out.

You can probably get help for that.

Dublin v Cork Dublin by 12
Roscommon v Tyrone Tyrone by 6
Kerry v Mayo Mayo by 2
Donegal v Meath Donegal by 8