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Ciaran Lyng on Dublin: "No one is competing with them, they're walking Leinster at the moment"

Ciaran Lyng, Mickey Burke, Conor McManus and Eamonn Callaghan were the guests on The Saturday Pan...



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Ciaran Lyng on Dublin: "No one is competing with them, they're walking Leinster at the moment"

Ciaran Lyng, Mickey Burke, Conor McManus and Eamonn Callaghan were the guests on The Saturday Panel on Off the Ball.

With GAA pre-season about to kick-off across the country, talk soon turned to Dublin's dominance in Leinster over the last decade. 

Asked about Wexford's priorities for the coming season, Lyng told Nathan Murphy: "Even listening to Mickey, if you were to ask either of us ten years ago we'd have all said to win your provincial championship would be your first priority and try and get into an All-Ireland quarter-final, whatever, and then maybe get promotion in the league but now we have Dublin in Leinster at the moment - it's kind of a non-competition. 

"Kildare will be able to give them a game and I'm sure plenty of teams will put it up to them - basically no one is competing with them, they're walking Leinster at the moment. 

"We've had to move to the league now to try and develop and move up to Division one and Division two - that's the priority now because we need to be playing these teams to see the standard. We played Monaghan in Wexford Park and it was at a different level.

"We played with two forwards and played defensively and I think we were ten points down after the first five minutes. It's a completely different level you're playing at and the only way to get used to it is to be playing against it all the time. 

Looking ahead to challenge Dublin pose, Lyng continued: "It's nigh-on impossible [to beat them], I think the lads (Meath) beat them in 2010, 2011 and that was the last time they were beaten in Leinster I think in 15 years. That was the freak, that was the one and the lads went on to win Leinster. 

"So, from that perspective, I don't think anyone's saying they're destroying it - all they're doing is playing a good brand of football that nobody can really compete with. 

"I've heard the conversations about splitting Dublin - just because they've got their ducks in a row and playing fantastic football - the conversation isn't that they're destroying it - they're just taking it to the next level," he added.

The full discussion is available here: 

Ciaran Lyng on Dublin: "No one is competing with them, they're walking Leinster at the moment"

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