Leinster Senior football championship 2024

[Wildweasel74]

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[Blowitupref]

Last years Leinster final  Dublin 5-21 Louth 0-15 and two championship meeting before that.

2019 Quarter final - Dublin 5-21 Louth 0-10



Handicap betting has Dublin to win by 15 points on Sunday.

Today 1-19 to 2-12 another title for Dublin but the credit goes to Louth on their improvement and much more competitive display today and probably proved themselves as the 2nd best in Leinster if wasn't already known by reaching back to back finals.

[seafoid]

It's a shame a majority of Dublin Supporters won't be able to say ''I was there when Dublin won 14 in a row Leinsters'' 

I doubt even most of them watched it on the TV.

63 in total
So the competition used to be competitive

1884 or so to 2004 = 44 in c 120 years
Vs 19 in 20 = Fake

[From the Bunker]

I was at the Westmeath/Laois Leinster Final Replay in 2004. The GAA and the media lamented the attendance of 38,300. This could not happen again - Dublin had to be made stronger to put bums on seats in the new Croke Park.

The rest is a success story - for Dublin.

[Wildweasel74]

Ah to be the 90's again, where Dublin kept coming out the wrong side of Ulster Teams.

[Armagh18]

42 wins in a row
14 titles in a row.

"Thoroughly enjoyable win.
Time for the Meaths and Kildares to get up to Dublin's pitch" says John Casey

If a small county like Louth can run the Dubs as close then Meath and Kildare should be able to do the same.

[Rossfan]

Hasn't Louth a bigger population than Donegal, Kerry or Mayowestros?

[JoG2]

Hasn't Louth a bigger population than Donegal, Kerry or Mayowestros?

Less the Kerry. Meath and Kildare (both play in Leinster) have a much bigger population than Louth. Mayowestros isn't a Free State county

[highorlow]

What a shift from the Louth men. Will give the qualifiers a serious rattle

It's just Louths turn on the Leinster merry go round to try and try and burst a gut and still fail and then support wains and the team dies just like Meath, Kildare and Laois.

The pick of the other teams in Leinster wouldn't beat Dublin, that's the reality.

[Look-Up!]

Brilliant from the wee county yesterday. Very pleasant surprise watching it, expected the usual cake walk but Louth played some great football.

[Keyser soze]

What a shift from the Louth men. Will give the qualifiers a serious rattle

It's just Louths turn on the Leinster merry go round to try and try and burst a gut and still fail and then support wains and the team dies just like Meath, Kildare and Laois.

The pick of the other teams in Leinster wouldn't beat Dublin, that's the reality.

You say 'burst a gut' as if that's a bad thing!

[highorlow]

You say 'burst a gut' as if that's a bad thing!

We have mind readers here now.

[JoG2]

What a shift from the Louth men. Will give the qualifiers a serious rattle

It's just Louths turn on the Leinster merry go round to try and try and burst a gut and still fail and then support wains and the team dies just like Meath, Kildare and Laois.

The pick of the other teams in Leinster wouldn't beat Dublin, that's the reality.

Aye, maybe so, but I was talking about the qualifiers. Louth will give a good account of themselves imo. Could finish 2nd and get 'home' advantage against a beatable team. A potential q/f (top finish at least

[Hound]

Dublin senior club football full of money,  nearly a professional setting, hence better pick than anybody else

That's certainly more to do with it than the GDOs and Croke Park.
The GDOs are a complete red herring. They have nothing to do with elite players in clubs, never mind county level.
Empirical evidence suggests there is almost no such thing as home advantage in GAA as most matches are between 60-40 to 40-60 supporter levels. Since Super 8 came in and then round robin, results have shown no advantage to playing at home. Likewise when you examine Connacht and Ulster championship. There are as many away wins as home wins.

Now, if there are games where Dubs (or anyone else) have 70-80% of the crowd, then absolutely that's an advantage. But that never happens at AI semi and final level. And only started happening at Leinster final level when Kildare and Meath fans gave up the ghost.

At minor and U20/1 level, there is rarely anything between Dubs, Kildare and Meath. The current pick of all three senior teams comes from lads who played in those games. Dublin club levels doesn't really increase the pick for the Dubs, in that if you haven't played minor and/or U20 you're not getting picked by the Dubs (with very very rare exception) but it's huge in bridging the gap from underage to adult. Week-in, week-out high quality football. That for me has to be one of the key reasons Dublin players seem to improve after U20 (and we probably retain more in the game too) than many other counties.

There are other advantages we have, such as everyone living in the county and less wasted travel time to training etc (esp compared to the likes of Mayo).

People who spout on that the games development funding is even remotely anything to do with how the Dubs go from being one of many counties that regularly produce decent underage teams to being so outstanding at senior intercounty are way off base. Either just ignorant or deliberately misleading

[ClubScene13]

Dublin senior club football full of money,  nearly a professional setting, hence better pick than anybody else

That's certainly more to do with it than the GDOs and Croke Park.
The GDOs are a complete red herring. They have nothing to do with elite players in clubs, never mind county level.
Empirical evidence suggests there is almost no such thing as home advantage in GAA as most matches are between 60-40 to 40-60 supporter levels. Since Super 8 came in and then round robin, results have shown no advantage to playing at home. Likewise when you examine Connacht and Ulster championship. There are as many away wins as home wins.

Now, if there are games where Dubs (or anyone else) have 70-80% of the crowd, then absolutely that's an advantage. But that never happens at AI semi and final level. And only started happening at Leinster final level when Kildare and Meath fans gave up the ghost.

At minor and U20/1 level, there is rarely anything between Dubs, Kildare and Meath. The current pick of all three senior teams comes from lads who played in those games. Dublin club levels doesn't really increase the pick for the Dubs, in that if you haven't played minor and/or U20 you're not getting picked by the Dubs (with very very rare exception) but it's huge in bridging the gap from underage to adult. Week-in, week-out high quality football. That for me has to be one of the key reasons Dublin players seem to improve after U20 (and we probably retain more in the game too) than many other counties.

There are other advantages we have, such as everyone living in the county and less wasted travel time to training etc (esp compared to the likes of Mayo).

People who spout on that the games development funding is even remotely anything to do with how the Dubs go from being one of many counties that regularly produce decent underage teams to being so outstanding at senior intercounty are way off base. Either just ignorant or deliberately misleading

If you can't see the advantage in playing in the same venue 10-15 times a year, in your county, when other teams play in it 2 or 3 times if they're lucky, I don't know what to tell you.

I also would not agree that its a 50/50 split at AI semi final and finals. The ticket distribution might say that, but it isn't. Not to mention kicking into a sea of blue behind one of the goals, you're just bias, and that's fine.