Replying To Doylerwex: "We would have a very good league record against Clare. We won in Ennis last year.
I'm genuinely more worried about Kildare than Dublin and Clare. We will bring a performance for those fixtures but we're so prone to getting caught out when we're expected to win."
I made that point before. Wexford are always capable of beating the top teams. Also well in v Clare until sending off in championship two years ago.
Still think Croke Park is key fixture for both. Obviously any point dropped v others is curtains.
Good win for our Hurlers yesterday in Parnell Park. Dublin 2-19 v Kildare 0-10 FT It was 2-08 to 0-05 at HT. We had 8 different scorers with Donal Burke top scoring with 11pts, and Ronan Hayes top scoring from play with 2goals. Interesting stat that we only had 6 starters from our meeting with the Lillies last June.
We now have 3 weeks off until the next game against Wexford at Croke Park - a fixture that will most likely have a major bearing on promotion to Division 1A.
Our footballers were well beaten by Mayo earlier today although the sending off had a major influence on the result. It finished 1-18 to 2-09 but was 0-10 to 1-05 at HT. Sean McMahon seeing red needlessly 4minutes into the 2nd half meant there was no way back for the Dubs. We had 6 men on the scoresheet with Paddy Small top scoring from play for us with 1-01. Con was named to start but he never togged out and we also lost both Dunne and Howard to injuries the first half. Hopefully none are serious, especially after the news about Theo and Lee. We clearly have a lot of work to do.
But as I suspected, Ger's priority is unearthing new players for the the Leinster Championship. His post match interview was very interesting - he will cut the current squad in the next week but also that a couple of long serving players might also be gone from the panel.... Watch this space as they say.
For me, if he wants to stay in Div One we need to beat both Rossies and Monaghan. I will be shocked if we beat any of the other Div 1 teams in the League this year.
Anyway, no game for 2 weeks so some very interesting conversations to be had by Ger in the background....
Clearly a new era for the Dublin Footballers, the level of which only time will tell....