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Ruddy was on Sligo panel last year. Super kickout

Dave Clarke won his well deserved All Star. Who will be between the sticks next year?

Hopefully Carberry  will give Crokes a decent munster final. Will need a tough game when facing Corofin/Castlebar

Mick Murphy throwing his fists around yesterday and exempt from yellow cards. The no 12 well deserved to be sent off. He threw a elbow at another Kilcoo defender 5 minutes before O'Hanlon incident

Disgraceful scenes there in Kiltoom. If they were two Tyrone teams....

That Garvan Dolan is a thug

my god. the referee in Brigids/Pearses game is brutal. Pearses player dragged down by 2 players get free given against him 

In professional sport, money wins.

Why couldn't Kildare win a raffle so when they bankrupted the county and ran the most expensive setup in the country?

buying property for players and poaching players from other counties wasn't cheap either! Micko was on top dollar during the Celtic Tiger too 

Niall Quinns son?

wasn't he supposed to go in swap deal with Shane Supple?

http://www.joe.ie/uncategorized/kildare-tried-to-get-me-to-play-for-them-claims-dublin-keeper/32002

So true

Karol Mannion last minute goal for Brigids to beat Corofin in 06 was sweet

Not really up to speed with the minor competition but Dublin never seem to reach the latter stages of it. Why? Massive massive pick. Too big? Too many players?
What say you

Not good enough

[How is it that Ciaran Kilkenny can spend 2 week in Donegal doing teacher training in weeks leading up to the draw but can get flown down to training via helicopter.... who pays for that?]

Gentlemen, gentlemen , Gentlemen. You will never learn.

I will come back here when somebody gets the books opened from each of the 32 county boards over the last 30 years so we can analyse them.

OK .... i'll start with the most recent 3 Mayo ones ... can you do the same for Dublin please ?
2013: http://sportlomo-userupload.s3.amazonaws.com/uploaded/galleries/21_uploaded/Mayo%20GAA%20Accounts%202013.xls
2014: http://sportlomo-userupload.s3.amazonaws.com/uploaded/galleries/21_uploaded/Auditors%20Report_Financial%20Accounts%202014.pdf
2015: http://sportlomo-userupload.s3.amazonaws.com/uploaded/galleries/21_uploaded/Auditors%20Report_Financial%20Accounts%202014.pdf

I'm not interested in the population discussion. I'm interested in the money side of things and not just the coaching money (which has been put to excellent use in fairness but is not a level playing field either as we all know)
How is it that Ciaran Kilkenny can spend 2 week in Donegal doing teacher training in weeks leading up to the draw but can get flown down to training via helicopter.... who pays for that? The Dublin based Mayo boys of course criss-crossing the country - half the time squeezed into back seats - for 4 hours each way with 20+ hours driving between draw and replay either to Castlebar (or once to Athlone).

Dublin have a level of professionalism that even Tomas O'Se doesn't understand.
It reminds of when Emilyn Mulligan was interviewed before they played Roscommon and said that since the new Leitrim training facility opened that the Leitrim senior team lacked for absolutely nothing. Nonsense of course... more a case of him not knowing what he didn't have.
Same with Mayo - players are apparently happy with everything they have - setup, facilities, etc, etc. Would they though prefer the Ciaran Kilkenny mode of transport for travelling down from Dublin & elsewhere for training.............


Oh and the population .... we would have won the All-Ireland in 1841 v Dublin ... 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_population_analysis#Dublin
Dublin population 372,000.
Mayo population 388,000

Have you link for that? How can the rest of us compete with that when players have helicoptors on standby.

Is St James's a City club?

Correct and St Michaels are in the city too

In professional sport, money wins.

Why couldn't Kildare win a raffle so when they bankrupted the county and ran the most expensive setup in the country?

buying property for players and poaching players from other counties wasn't cheap either! Micko was on top dollar during the Celtic Tiger too 

It's gas that Marc O'Se won more All Ireland in his and Kerry's decline stage 2010-2016, than Mayo have won in their maturity stage 2011-2016! And a mature Mayo could not beat a declining Kerry team!

A bit like Kerry playing Tyrone in the noughties. When they beat a over the hill Tyrone in 2012 there was more tears and celebrations from that Kerry team that day than any of the All Irelands they won

The greatest corner back of all time. Probably wasted in there but done a job for the team