Replying To superbluedub:  "Ah here you posted all this nonsense below (on this stepping away thread ), long before your sly dig at kevin, none of it is relevant to this thread, as i said put your Dublin issues on a thread of its own if you feel so strongly about it Now please stop deflecting ,you are only fooling yourself and no one else , you know what your at with your Dublin issues constantly thread spoiling
Anyway enough is enough and we should all move on now for the good of " ALL " threads



dublin have out grown the intercounty championship now and needs to be regraded to an appropriate competition (the railway Cup)

And where would dublins quarter final against Tyrone or Donegal be played Mick?only 7 football players left with allireland medals outside of dublin, that's nuts but we'll be told there is nothing to see here, everything is brilliant.

That's still a crazy number though. Football is dead.And where would dublins quarter final against Tyrone or Donegal be played Mick? "

And where would dublins quarter final against Tyrone or Donegal be played Mick?But will they be as strong as dublin in Croke Park mick?

Remember they will have to play the dublin behemoth in dublins home ground and neither Galway or Tyrone have senior allireland winners on their teamYa we did win 37 allirelands Mick but 36 of them were before the dublin money kicked in, and before dublin were moved permanently in to crokepark for league as well as the championship.

I'm telling you dublin are in the wrong competition and they need to be regraded into a new version of the railway Cup and intercounty football to proper county teams.But it's not just Kerrys problem it's every1 outside of dublins problem.

If you can't see that dublin starting to play all their home league games in Croke Park in 08/09 as a benefit to the dublin footballers then your blind or you don't want to see the problem that caused for every other team jox
Mick kinda covered a lot of what I was going to say in his post jox but you can't really thinks that Croke Park isn't yer home ground when there is a pile of evidence to state otherwise.

There was a stat at the end of the championship that cluxtin has played 112 championship games for dublin and 101 of them were played at home .

Also playing 2 dead rubber games against Tyrone in Omagh doesn't really count as Tyrone were looking to keep their team fresh for the semifinals the following week.

Croke Park is a massive advantage to dublin as a county/province both financially ( nó travel or hotels or up keep of own stadium) and in football terms.
It's easy to get big numbers to travel to 3 or 4 away games a year Dubhlinn, in 2019 we played 7 out of our 8 championship games on the road.

In 2017 Mayo played 9 out of their 10 games on the road.

I think Tyrone played 8 or 9 games on the road in 08.

And that's not taking into account 3, 4 or 5 away league games as well.

Look at the expense that has on supporters and country teams

.Also we won 37 allirelands on the road away from home whereas dublin have won 30 allirelands at home in Croke Park."

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "It took you 2 days to come up with that :-)

And hi thanks for posting all of it, as its good and very important to keep all of dublins advantages in the spot light, and my posts above will certainly do that.

But as important as it is, AGAIN you're taking this thread off topic which is (retirements and stepping away early)"

Replying To superbluedub:  "Ah here you posted all this nonsense below (on this stepping away thread ), long before your sly dig at kevin, none of it is relevant to this thread, as i said put your Dublin issues on a thread of its own if you feel so strongly about it Now please stop deflecting ,you are only fooling yourself and no one else , you know what your at with your Dublin issues constantly thread spoiling
Anyway enough is enough and we should all move on now for the good of " ALL " threads



dublin have out grown the intercounty championship now and needs to be regraded to an appropriate competition (the railway Cup)

And where would dublins quarter final against Tyrone or Donegal be played Mick?only 7 football players left with allireland medals outside of dublin, that's nuts but we'll be told there is nothing to see here, everything is brilliant.

That's still a crazy number though. Football is dead.And where would dublins quarter final against Tyrone or Donegal be played Mick? "

And where would dublins quarter final against Tyrone or Donegal be played Mick?But will they be as strong as dublin in Croke Park mick?

Remember they will have to play the dublin behemoth in dublins home ground and neither Galway or Tyrone have senior allireland winners on their teamYa we did win 37 allirelands Mick but 36 of them were before the dublin money kicked in, and before dublin were moved permanently in to crokepark for league as well as the championship.

I'm telling you dublin are in the wrong competition and they need to be regraded into a new version of the railway Cup and intercounty football to proper county teams.But it's not just Kerrys problem it's every1 outside of dublins problem.

If you can't see that dublin starting to play all their home league games in Croke Park in 08/09 as a benefit to the dublin footballers then your blind or you don't want to see the problem that caused for every other team jox
Mick kinda covered a lot of what I was going to say in his post jox but you can't really thinks that Croke Park isn't yer home ground when there is a pile of evidence to state otherwise.

There was a stat at the end of the championship that cluxtin has played 112 championship games for dublin and 101 of them were played at home .

Also playing 2 dead rubber games against Tyrone in Omagh doesn't really count as Tyrone were looking to keep their team fresh for the semifinals the following week.

Croke Park is a massive advantage to dublin as a county/province both financially ( nó travel or hotels or up keep of own stadium) and in football terms.
It's easy to get big numbers to travel to 3 or 4 away games a year Dubhlinn, in 2019 we played 7 out of our 8 championship games on the road.

In 2017 Mayo played 9 out of their 10 games on the road.

I think Tyrone played 8 or 9 games on the road in 08.

And that's not taking into account 3, 4 or 5 away league games as well.

Look at the expense that has on supporters and country teams

.Also we won 37 allirelands on the road away from home whereas dublin have won 30 allirelands at home in Croke Park."

Replying To foreveryoung:  "Are these sample posts from KingdomBoy in general on HS, or just specific posts about this topic about retirements?"

Replying To superbluedub:  "Again Only highlighting that you have being spoiling this thread for over a year and others for 10 years , if you would stop acting the monkey there would be no need for any of this nonsense , please stop thread spoiling and put your Dublin issues in a thread of its own"

Replying To foreveryoung:  "Are these sample posts from KingdomBoy in general on HS, or just specific posts about this topic about retirements?"

Replying To superbluedub:  "All were posted from Kingdomboy on this thread the " retirements thread ""

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "If you look back along the pages of this thread, I can only get back as far as page 12, but you'll see a lot of my posts that he reposted were me having a conversation with blackand blue from Galway, gaafan from wexford, Ciarraímick, and joxer, I can't see far enough back to see how the conversation went in that direction but it looks like I joined it on page 12 and it was all ready in full flow.

There was lots of other contributers from limerick and Mayo as well to the conversation at the time but your man cherry picked my posts and showed them out of context to try and build some kind of a case for himself, but please feel free to check it out for yourself and draw your own conclusions."

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "Here you are still trying to draw me into a slagging match and resorting to name calling to try and get a reaction.

It's funny how you've only shown 1 side of those conversations that I was having with other posters (not you) , so its easy to lose the context.

Now you should really stop taking this thread off topic."

Replying To Fionn:  "Cant understand how for so many years Admin are allowing his constant nonsense to be posted and ruining of so many topics.... He starts it and always wants to finish it....!

Anyway, Back to the title of this topic - excellent post by Username on Philly by the way.

I think the current Covid situation could see a lot more inter county players retire early.
Massive commitment and toll on the body & mind these days with the way the game has gone.
And Covid has really brought into focus work v life balance, and inter county takes up so much time nowadays.
Perfect examples of this are Jack and Paul Mannion. Both in their prime and both decided to walk away from it all - whether that be temporarily or permanently. Only time will tell which it is to be.
But both are Massive losses to the game and clearly prioritised other things in their lives.
And of course, perfectly entitled to do so.

I think going forward, the days of inter county players playing into their mid 30's will be few and far between."

Replying To superbluedub:  "Again im highlighting the rediculous amount of nonsense you have posted about Dublin in this thread , a thread for retirement
Now as for name calling ,you are obviously referring to yourself
You are the one who always turns to name calling , do i have to repost were you started this too ?"

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "Hi it looks to me like you're trying to get the thread shut down or something by the way you keep going off topic.

You've put up my posts which when seen on their own are totally out of context, and do you know what, Nó 1 even cares, so what ever you think you're achieving it isn't working :-)"

Replying To superbluedub:  "Hi please stop deflecting ,it looks to me you like you have a very unhealthy obsession with Dublin, the posts ive put up are not totally out of context , this is the retirement thread , and you have contantly brought it off topic with your Dublin issues , as ive said numerous times the only thing im trying to achieve here is for you to stop thread spoiling and put your Dublin issues in a seperate thread ;-)"

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "Nobody cares :-)"

Replying To superbluedub:  "In your opinion , however your wrong:-)"

Replying To Gaillimh_Abu:  "Getting back to the actual topic of this thread, it was sad to read the story of Darragh O'Hanlon, the former Down captain, on this website. He has been forced to retire at the age of 28 after spending most of the last 3 years sidelined with a series of crippling injuries. Hopefully his body recovers and he does not suffer long-term effects from his injuries."

Replying To Gaillimh_Abu:  "Why don't you two children start a separate thread for hurling insults at one another. This is beyond tiresome."

Replying To superbluedub:  "In your opinion , however your wrong:-)"

Replying To KingdomBoy1:  "Well it's obvious that my opinion matters an awful lot to you the way you waited patiently for 13/14 days over Christmas to reply to my post :-)

Anyway it matters little now because you're not getting what you want, and you'd be better off letting the thread get back on track."