@Gary: and kerry have won 9 of the last 10 in Munster. and the GAA don’t think there is a problem??

@themansam: Meath are brutal alright but there’s not much better in Leinster

@David Garland: are you comparing soccer to an amateur sport? Go back to sleep

@Gary: Blah Blah Blah, would you like a spoon full of sugar to help with that bitterness Gary???

@Dunner: not crying I’m a hurling supporter couldn’t watch that puke today

@Ardmore02: problem in Munster too the football championship is useless completely

@Gary: is that why an mhì hit all those wides. What’s embarrassing is 4 pts in 70 minutes

@themansam: take your head out of your biased back side and look at the investment facts.

@Gary: Dublin just to good

@Gary: nah. Meath need to start picking players from the entire county not from the areas between navan and the Dublin or kildare border. Meaths border runs up to oldcastle carnaross etc. Maybe have a look at the players there and from their own junior team

@Gary: meath and all the other leinster counties supported this back in the ’00s even in the last few years when it was talked about forcing Dublin to play outside of croke park more often the leinster council shot this down with the support of the counties. Everyone of the players for Dublin today have benefitted from the development officers state of the art facilities provided to Dublin over the last 20 years.

@David Garland: ha well spotted

@Ardmore02: Munster has always been a joke but when the clubs in the province support seeded draws to keep Kerry and cork apart they have themselves to blame. But maybe if the got support in their counties for facilities and development officers to promote the games they would be better. It has worked for 1 county anyway

@Gary: If you can’t see the irony in your comment you’re the one that’s asleep..

@john s: you could put the game on in Jupiter and the result will be the same when you give one country all the money this what happens

@Devilsavocado: I’m not a football supporter thank god so no I’m not bitter the hurling championship will make up the football

@David Garland: Clueless Dublin get all the money and have the population hence all the success it’s a money and population game now

@themansam: I agree Sam

@Nial D: Dublin have received €15.4 more than any other county in the last decade in development grants over the last decade
Yet they honestly can’t see that there’s a problem
Downright embarrassing

@Gary: *€15.4 million*

@Gary: well Cork have a lot of a chance at taking a title off kerry. Cork have had a some barren years and confidence was low, they seem to be making shapes after the last game. Leinster champ is completely redundant however. And will be for a long while it seems.

@Gary: you wouldn’t watch the match yet you couldn’t wait to get on and comment about the game, ha ha,, so when you say your not bitter I think your telling porkies and I can’t wait till the Dubs pick up “OUR” trophy for the 5th time in a row in September, I’d say the jealousy will eat you alive mate,,, your just like all the other haters out there that can’t even bring yourself to admit that you are looking at arguably the greatest side to ever play the game, a squad of exceptionally talented players that play as a well oiled machine and it’s for that reason they are so dominant,, give the players the respect they deserve,, and earned…

@Nial D: Niall, don’t mind Sam. I produced all the facts and figures to him. He does not want to acknowledge the truth

@Devilsavocado: you’d like to make it a stance if bitterness but any neutral would find it difficult to get their head around what has descended upon us in football. How is it that Dublin could put out a 2nd and 3rd team that could handily beat that meath team today? Never in Dublin’s history have they been so dominant. Where they can lose their best players and still not miss a step. That team didn’t even go into 3rd gear. There’s a root cause….and it becomes more apparent with each leinster champ title and each Sam Maguire.

@Gary: Gary, they don’t want to accept the truth

@Devilsavocado: Our trophy he says haha Kerry have 37 ye have only 28 so how is it yer trophy?

@Devilsavocado: I will say that Jim Gavin has carved them into a formidable team. He appears cutthroat and methodical in everything he does. He’s ruthless and given the squad a real cutting edge. Any hope of Dublin losing is with Jim Gavin staying on.

@David Garland: you cant kick more than 4 points in a provincial final, money doesn’t buy that. How’s that for facts

@Gary: How many ‘competitive’ hurling counties are there? The problem lies in the GAA propping up a provincial system which iis well past it’s ‘sell-by’ date.

@@at: you presented no facts ever only an opinion buddy that’s all. I told you to look at John Costello’s report and you won’t.
And do you know what else? Even if it all down to money, so what long May it continue. Up the Dubs. Drive for 5

@sean o’dhubhghaill: You seen how many counties have won the all Ireland since 2013? In the hurling this year I’d give Tipp Cork Limerick and Kilkenny a shout at winning it that’s also because one county didn’t get a heap of money to get competitive either

@themansam: backs played alright. Forwards or anyone going for a point never believed they’d score. Couldn’t get inside and shot from distance. They let down their defence after their initial resilience. If they’d put over the first few it might have given them some confidence and delayed the inevitable for a while. But no team that has come up against them has believed they’d win. Won’t be until maybe the quarters certainly the semis that Dublin will have to go into 4th gear.

@Gary: rot. So did all that money tie the Meath players boots together so they couldn’t manage more than 4 points from 70 minutes. Change the record

@Richard O’Brien: Poor Meath fellas probably had to pay for their own boots
They don’t get millions in their county either

@Gary: how is it our trophy Gary,, I’ll tell you how,, because we ain’t giving it back!!!!!!! Ha ha ha ha ha ha.. bitter bitter bitter :D

@Gary: Was it the reason Meath could only score 4 points?

@Gary: now it’s gone from crying and whinging to banal stupidity

@themansam: here are the facts for you again. I presented these to you a few hrs ago. If you have to resort to lying now, it is a sure sign you are losing the argument

https://www.balls.ie/amp/gaa/gaa-investment-in-dublin-348120

@themansam: another bit of light reading for you

https://www.balls.ie/amp/gaa/kevin-mcstay-dublin-funding-roscommon-412756

@@at: nope that’s an opinion piece by that clown from the independent. All he does is breakdown the money by players in Dublin. What Costello’s report will show you for a fact is that the funding is not spent on adult games. Fact. Population does come into it. More people more money. It’s pretty simple

@@at: another opinion piece. No facts

@themansam: so the true figures released by the GAA are not facts ? I have heard it all now. You keep referring that they development money is not used on Adult players, we all know that. It is used to professionally coach the kids, but here is a real tricky question, do the kids always stay kids ??? Will they not be feeding into the Dublin senior team at some stage ??

@Gary: yes because millions = Sams. Dublin won their first in 16 years in 2011. The dollars only started to come in then. Go figure. Oh and Cork’s population and large investment in stunning centre of excellence yet they can’t kick snow off a rope. Your simplistic formula of money = success is false it seems.

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: maybe if Cork didn’t spend 100 million or so on a Stadium and more on coaching……

@Gary: millions of gaa money pumped into certain leinster counties that appears to have been flushed down the toilet. Take Dublin out of it and no leinster team will make the super 8s comfortably. Football in leinster away from Dublin is competitively abyssmal. As Mario balotelli once said “why always me?”

@@at: grand so if that’s your case we’ll be winning championships into the next century. Up the Dubs buddy up the Dubs

@themansam: yes ye will be and more luck to ye as Dublin fans. Anyways I am glad you have finally acknowledged the unfair advantage. The present Dublin team is an awesome team and if the playing field was levelled ye will probably still be winning the all Irelands but sadly we will never know this as the present funding structure is so biased it has ruined the championship for all neutrals

@@at: Meath get more than Kerry. Fat lot of good it does them

@@at: I’ll never agree with your opinion pal. You’re just getting your excuses in early as The Rossies have had their day this summer

@Gary: the rest as you term them are an embarrassment to their county and if us Dubs get everything from GAA as you incorrectly claim how come we don’t win the McCarthy cup every year Just be quiet and learn how to play the game

@themansam: ah that’s good to know. You are ignoring the facts, you are just disagreeing for the sake of it. That’s very mature of you. I won’t be debating with you anymore. You are too immature

@Gary: you’re full of crap If all the money goes to Dublin why don’t they win the McCarthy cup

@Gary: name me one member of the GAA hierarchy that’s from Dublin ?
What is a disgrace is that the players are not been paid and all these free loaders in headquarters are lining their wallets

@@at: have you read that report i was telling you about yet?

@Anthony Doyle: because there’s been more focus on football as winning Sam was seem as more achievable than the Liam Mccarthy. I’ve worked around the Dublin area and the development coaches that come in are all football orientated. A pal of mine was cultural officer in a v large Dublin club and resigned as football was given precedent. Dual stars were discouraged from playing both sports. A microcosm of Dublin GAA attitude. That’d be my theory anyway.

@Gary: should fly you to Jupiter and take you of Mars

@Anthony Doyle: presumably hurlers are coming from a much lower base than the footballers, overall performance of hurlers has improved in the last 15 years. It would be interesting to see a study of minor to senior performance over the last 15 years in comparison to there performance prior to current funding model. Another 15 years of the current funding model and Dublin could well dominate both codes.

@Gary: I honestly hope the Dubs win the next 6 hurling and football all Ireland’s just to shut you up
Christ you would give an Aspro a headache

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: involved with many clubs in Dublin are you? I can guarantee you’re talking pony now

@Gary: it’s leveraging massive population advantage. How it took so long is the question.

@James Gorman #FBPE: the answer is, the GAA pumped millions into Dublin to fund the development of this large population and they basically ignored every other County and now it has spectacularly backfired on them to such an extent the football championship is non existent as a competition any more

@@at: so your provincial title means nothing to you this year?

@Devilsavocado: bedtime child, you have school in the morning!

So have we sorted out all our differences? Are we all happy?

@Devilsavocado: as a complete neutral i’d say Dublin’s dominance is bought and paid for. Enjoy your hollow chest thumping. A Dublin win this year will carry about as much weight as Celtic winning the Scottish league year in year out. None. It’s easy to win when you have an overwhelming financial advantage.
Crowds are dwindling because no one wants to watch a foregone conclusion.

@themansam: not with clubs. The education system. You don’t have to believe me. I also fight crime at night. I get to wear a cape and everything!

@Philip Exley: yes because Kerry was never a foregone conclusion in the 80s, nor Kilkenny in the 90s and 00s. The mind boggles.

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: I absolutely don’t believe you Bruce. I’ve seen these programmes work personally in several different clubs with my own eyes

@Devilsavocado: totally agree with your comments there. “I’m a hurling supporter, couldn’t watch that puke”, funny how those with an axe to grind, can’t stand to watch a game, yet seem to know so much about it just after the final whistle and just can’t wait to get on here and spout their bile, jealousy, bitterness,
First County to ever win 9 provincial titles, regardless of how weak or strong a province is, ITS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE. Time to just get over yourselves. During the league, loads of comments about how vulnerable Dublin were, beaten in the league etc.
So they win today and its all the usual b#@@#@ about funding. Two teams played a game of football, not accounting.
Meath were shite, 4 points in a leinster final is embarrassing. Dublin played in low gear, upped it when needed to and won.
Great achievement for all concerned.

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: better players,better manager,simples!

@David Garland: you’re right and then the gaa pumped money into them to tackle the issue because they needed the capital to have a strong team in sport or soccer and rugby would take over and it would be lost forever there. Now let them pump the same money into Louth, Wicklow, Kildare, Meath etc etc etc. But they won’t.

@Roberts Mel: Bingo but David from his shed in Tallaght won’t recognise that

@Roberts Mel: Give every county the same money as Dublin? Dublin got that money because of population size and density and competition from other sports. What other counties have the same dynamics and would justify such support? In terms of return on investment it is buttons. But it’s always easy to blame the capital then sort out your own mess.

@John R: it’s nothing got to do with population. Dublin gets on average 10 times more development funding per registered GAA player, I repeat, 10 times more funding per registered GAA player. The population argument is redundant

@Gary: I’d rather be living in a shed in Tallaght than in some bog down the Country. Were you up on your high horse when Kilkenny were winning the All Ireland every year.. Go on back to your tractor and eat your soup grapes.. Up the Dubs!

@Roberts Mel: How much money did the likes of kildare blow on champagne managers, instead of pumping money into the underage structures? How much money did JP McManus put into Limerick hurling? Sending the players off to Dubai for warm weather training..

@Charlie: no m8 hes from Tyrone a bitter shower of half good but dirty players that have excuses for everything

@Roberts Mel: it’s not how much money they got. Its what’s they did with it. They spent it very wisely. There are many county boards who would have taken that money and commissioned statues with it and many GAA commentators (non Dublin) have said the same. Cork have gotten huge funding for their stadium, Kerry have won a ridiculous amount of Munster titles in the last 15 years but their dominance is never mentioned. Yes it’s a lot of money but it was spent on underage games development and Dublin have by far and away more young people playing the game than any other county in Ireland. I took my daughter to a blitz this morning and the amount of young kids there with great passing and shooting skills was great to see. The investment in Dublin was needed because the facilities and personnel were years behind other parts of the country. Dublin also generate a huge amount of revenue for the GAA and also self fund their senior team to a huge degree through sponsorship. A fantastic team who should be praised for their achievements and if they win Sam again this year then possibly the greatest team to ever play the game. Its cyclical. Kerry and Donegal have very good young teams who will only get stronger. In the end its 15 men vs 15 men on a pitch. Money doesnt score points or goals or dig wins out when backs are to the walls. Teams do and Dublin are simply the best team at the moment. They have set the standard of play for the rest who have to match it.

@Gerard Smith: money develops kids to prepare to prepare them for senior football. Throw all the money at one county and you will have an abundance of professionally coached kids chomping at the bit feeding into the senior team

@Gerard Smith: https://www.balls.ie/amp/gaa/kevin-mcstay-dublin-funding-roscommon-412756

@David Garland: nail on the head there David. Limerick had not won an all Ireland for decades and then you had a sugar daddy throwing millions and suddenly they are all Ireland champions. The GAA is Dublins sugar daddy and it is just not right. You have just proving the point that we are trying to make to you. THANK YOU

@David Garland: Yeah it’s just a case of each county saying to themselves we have to catch up with Dublin, it’s as simple as that. Nothing got to do with funding at all.

@Roberts Mel: let’s reflect on this. Money had nothing to do with Meath’s inability to lick simple points over the bar. I was sitting beside a Meath man who was distraught over the fact that they could not execute the simple things. That wasn’t money, it was just shite.

@Roberts Mel: why would you give 16.6 million to counties with small populations. Talk a bit of common sense

@David Garland: JP is the team sponsor. Just like AIG sponsor Dublin. He doesn’t just give Limerick a blank cheque. At the start of last year the limerick players had a boxing night to raise funds for training etc. JPs brother is the sponsor of the underage set up in Limerick. Limerick are not getting millions from JP contrary to popular belief

@@at: So Limerick won the All Ireland because of their sugar daddy? Jp has nothing to do with the underage set up in Limerick. Get your facts right. It’s his brother who sponsor’s it. Sponsor’s it just like most teams have sponsors. If it was so easy to win an all Ireland with a sugar daddy as you say why didn’t Limerick win one for the previous 10 years or so Jp was their sponsor ?

Doesn’t matter how much money you give them, they’ll still be awful, they’ll still bottle it, they’ll still be amateurs. Monaghan have a tiny amount of people and no money yet have a good side because they work on improving and have good coaches and that’s how you improve, perhaps if people put effort into the other teams improving and stopped B!tching about Dublin (who btw have the lowest amount of clubs relative to population in the entire country) then we’d have a better All Ireland. The fact that Dublin has the best team the sport has ever seen is a testament to those players and something that should be celebrated, not shot down by bitter culchies every time they win.

@Decko49: do you guys know anything at all, seriously ? JP was giving money to limerick the last 10 yrs for player development. This money allowed paid professional coaches go into schools and clubs the last 10yrs and coach kids so that they could feed into the senior set up. This is now bearing fruit. Geez I really did not think this would have needed to be spelt out to you also. You are as bad as that Sam chap, it’s gone way over your head

@Decko49: it takes a lot of funding to develop underage kids and it takes time for them to feed into the senior time. What is so hard to understand about that ??

@@at: at least in limericks case the money is not coming from the governing body. It’s actually bizarre what’s happening in Dublin case. I get the argument that they were competing against soccer and rugby and needed to improve things but the GAA have killed the Gaelic football by creating a super power in Dublin.

@Patrick O’Sullivan: exactly Patrick, exactly and then you have clueless cheerleaders on here and they don’t have a fking clue what they are taking about, don’t have a clue how player development funding works and how it impacts the senior team. They are so clueless and so short sighted they cannot see the terminal damage it is doing to football in the country. They are not real football fans, they are just bandwagon fans, if they were real GAA people they would see the chronic danger football is in if the GAA does not address it asap

@Zerolife TwentyThree: at least the don’t bite anyone !!!

@David Garland: You are a clown.The fact is that the GAA put a hugely disproportionate amount of cash into Dublin.No getting away from that.

@John O Reilly: Dublin got 17 times as much as Galway per player. Justify that.

@@at: Show where you got your info about JP. You have no idea. He sponsored the teams like every team in the country has a sponsor. I know exactly what I’m talking about. He wasn’t involved in player development. That was his brother. And I will repeat again. JP does not give Limerick endless money. They have to raise funds themselves as I mentioned earlier such as their boxing tournament. They had to raise money for the team holiday last January too. Yes JP helped but he didn’t pay for everything. You know nothing about Limerick only way you read in the media. Try produce facts to back up things you say. I await your evidence about JP and Limerick

@@at: Where did i say it didnt tske time and money. You said JP was paying for it. Not true

@Eric Djemba-Djemba: are you from Athy?

@Ned Flanders: can we stop with the personal inquisitions and actually focus on the article and the match itself

@John R: am I wrong?

@#JUSTICE4NOEL: that’s a bit hypocritical coming from you. My question was a tongue in cheek reference to Ewan McKenna.

@Eric Djemba-Djemba: coming from the utd fan
Financial doping the only dope Is yourself mate

@Ned Flanders: Close Naas

@themansam: when did aig start pumping money into Dublin gaa? Sponsors go for winners and teams they see dominating for the foreseeable future. They made a good investment.

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: how old are you
Bruce? Do you not remember the Kaliber Dublin jersey? With a population like any capital has, it’s always been big bucks to get your name on a Dublin jersey

@themansam: once again Sam, when the funding goes to school kids, obviously the county senior team will benefit from this eventually. What part of that do you not understand.

Why is this going way over your head ?

@themansam: of course. But the days of arnotts are over as they can’t compete. Aig renewed their sponsorship few years ago for ridiculous money that was never seen before. My point stands. You claim it being juvenile solidifies that as I suspect you know yourself.

@Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: don’t be so quick to be insulted Bruce. I genuinely asked your age, as that Kaliber jersey goes back to the early 90’s

@@at: you honestly haven’t a clue what you’re talking about, when all you can do is quote a journalist with an agenda and a pundit. Where are your facts buddy? More school children in Dublin, divide the funding my the kids in schools is that easier for you

@themansam: i have shown you the figures, these are the facts. These figures have been released by the GAA themselves.

@themansam: once again it is not the volume of kids. That argument is redundant. It is the amount of money allocated to each kid. Seriously, why is this going over your head ?

@@at: ur wasting ur time. Hes deliousnal…

@themansam: Sam 220 euro per registered player in Dublin versus 20 odd euro per player in every other county. You tell me that’s right? I heard an interview with costello and while he made some good points he also said its up to the rest of Ireland to get their house in order, how the hell can they when they don’t get the funding Dublin do?

@Roberts Mel: you should ask your queen for money

@Cryptoalcho: ah buddy. You’ve been quiet since when? Oh yeah the Champions league final.