GAA football 2020

Last week the figure being bandied about by the Ewans was 750k

Where the fook are these figures coming from

From what I can make out they're way off

Also that is one club in one of the wealthiest areas of the country

Kilmacud Crokes are not representative of clubs in Dublin, they're the biggest club in the country

They also had 0 starters on Saturday, 1 sub

Not serious pal, I can’t stand the gaa and their pro establishment bullsh*t, just a badly worded joke!me young fella lives in castle bar and though he finds the natives a little anti dub to say the least he loves it!!

Ah jesus are you seriously saying the facilities in St Clares aren’t great? I’ve been to a fair share of different centres of excellence in different counties and apart from Abbotstown it’s probably the best I’ve seen. Im not taking away from the Dublin team for one second they are an exceptional group of footballers but Dublin Gaa is at a huge advantage in everyway. I can count off the top of my head 15/20 top class gaa facilities in Dublin be that club, college or gaa owned where the county teams can train. The Dublin funding is so much greater also compared to every other county. Over the last 10 years Dublin got 17 million the closest to that was Cork who got 1.4 million. How does that make sense? There is over 100 paid coaches in Dublin alone who are paid by funding. Up until a few years ago Donegal had 1. 1 single paid coach. So do you think the funding hasn’t helped develop Dublin Gaa?

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-30950485.html
 

I saw that figure quoted on off the ball and it was at the lowest level of membership( I can’t say where it came from) it’s a staggering amount of money.

And that’s even more proof f that Dublin’s system is working that they can win an all Ireland an have only 1 representative from the biggest club in the country.

But there is plenty more huge clubs in Dublin churning out huge turnovers every year as I said before cula another example of this look at the scholarship deals they have set up.

Look at the rise of Castleknock in a decade 

All these dubs have come through development squads all the way up in serious set up that weren’t being run like that 20 years ago the gaa have helped the dubs hugely to get their house in order.

People are focusing too much on the money yes it’s important but it only part of the picture why they are so successful give all the funding you want to Monaghan and Cavan etc and they can only improve so much their playing pool is tiny.

The dubs have a huge pick everything is on their door step they can train twice in the day together if they want no hassle one of the biggest expenses on other inter county teams is travel expenses and big part of their budget is blown on this where it could be used better else where.

West Cork lads used have to travel to mallow to train with cork that’s about 3 and half hour round trip no chance in hell they could train twice in the day.

It’s a days work in travel time Alone not to mention the cost

As I said before the dubs hold all the aces everything is in their favour.

But no one in their right mind can say it’s fair the competition isn’t remotely fair and in its present set up they have very little ways of leveling the playing field.

And I’m Not for minute taking away from what the dubs have done but these are the harsh reality’s of the situation. 

Dressing rooms and pitches don't win you All-Irelands

You can't justify not maximising Dublin's potential because the GAA is supposed to be a grass roots community organisation in which participation is the most important thing

In fairness it's harsh splitting Dublin while they've still won less titles then kerry. If they do 15 in a row I'm sure they would put them ahead of kerry? 

And tbh it's probably more likely dublin do 15 in a row then don't.. I'm not sure I'd bet against it.