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Kerry were unbelievable in the first half. Dublin once again prove that winning Leinster means fuck all when they come up against top quality. Shame really.
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I don't think that it means fcuk all, Paddy... Just that they're the strongest team in that Province, but there are a few stronger teams out there.
I'd still put us in the top 4 or 5 teams in the country, but unfortunately, as usual, not the top 1 or 2...
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There's a top two or three, then as we've witnessed over the last few years, there's fucking daylight to you lot and everyone else. Let's not paper over the cracks here, Dublin were fucking destroyed yesterday. Ripped apart from first minute to last by a faster, stronger, more skilful side, and as I predicted - it was coming.
Of course it's not Dublin's fault that they've got to come out of the comfort zone that is Leinster, but there are no really great provinces, so that excuse only wears so thin. Tyrone had to beat a fucking dreadful Antrim side in the Ulster Championship Final. Kerry have played like shite up until August, so the 'we're playing piss-weak teams' excuse only hold so much weight. What have they learned over the last half-dozen years? Fucking nothing. 5 Leinster titles, and absolutely nothing to show for it. Joe Brolly was spot on - sides look at Dublin as their first proper test towards winning a n All-Ireland - it's like they're the first side you have to slightly raise your game for.
Beaten by 22 points last year, 17 this year. Kerry had 13 wides yesterday, fucking 13. That's more than Dublin could even put on the scoreboard.
And yes, Kerry were good - but where was the resistance? Where was the determined strategy to stop them waltzing off the half-back line awithout a hand laid on them? Two years ago in an All-Ireland final Kerry scored 1-3 in the opening 10 minutes, so Tyrone totally changed their style of play. Shut up shop, got themselves back in and went on to win the game. That's the difference - the ability to totally change the course of the game when it wasn't going your way. Dublin were still in the game after 10, 15, 20 minutes yesterday, but they offered nothing towards taking control of the game or stemming the Kerry flow. What was Gilroy thinking persisting with Brian Cullen at centre half-back? The non-full backs not even getting withn touching distance of the Gooch and O'Sullivan? Taking off a fucking corner-forward as your first move? Caffrey-esque type moves. They ended up resorting to typical Dublin tactics - giving up, losing patience and rank indiscipline. They should have had two men sent off, and had Kerry not tried to toy with you for the last half hour by looking for goals everytime they went forward, it could have been 30+ points.
[size=15pt]No doubt you'll give all this your continued denial Waddapie, and convince yourself that Dublin were hard done by, or are still one of the best sides in Ireland. [/size] But the cold hard facts are there. For the second year in a row, they've been fucking humiliated, not beaten, but annihilated by much superior teams. And for the fifth year in a row they've showed that winning Leinster means fuck all. They're just not in the top echelon of teams in Ireland, not by a long long way.
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Go fuck yourself, Ryan.
I'm not going to waste anymore time on you than it takes to write these few lines. Again, you chose to see something that's not there... What a shock! I've never said we were hard done by, nor that we are upper echelon. I've never said anything other than we might, but probably wouldn't, win things, and expressed my hope that we would.
I've said that we're a decent-to-good side, in a similar manner that Arsenal are, without ever really troubling the best teams out there. I never said that winning Leinster meant we're brillaint, did I?
We were battered today, just like last year. I'm not trying to paper over anything, and you well know it... But again, because it's Dublin and you and your ilk hate it so much, you twist what's been said to better suit your argument.
I'm going home tomorrow, and I genuinely can't wait to be amoung people who only care about games their teams play in... It must be a miserable fucking existance to live and die on how well or badly a county you're not even from does.
So, I'll end as I began...
Go fuck yourself.
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I said absolutely nothing that wasn't 100% true, and nothing for you to get so worked up over.
You'd be best walking around with your head in a bucket of sand whilst you're "at home" cos there'll be plenty of people dishing out far worse when it comes to your beloved Dubs, and we don't want you to get too upset.
Calm down you fool.
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Blow me, you smug cnut.
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Pfft, I gave you the benefit of the doubt the first time, and meant absolutely nothing by the "at home" comment. You're a paranoid cunt.
Actually, you're a thick, bitter, paranoid cunt at that.
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Bitter? Because I defend myself against your shite? Do one, will ya...
And while we're getting it all off our chests, you're an arrogant, condescending, know-it-all, spiteful little toe-rag, and this site was better when you were gone.
Take care now.
