{"id":287265,"date":"2026-02-08T12:28:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287265\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T12:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T12:28:12","slug":"joe-brolly-the-dubs-used-to-symbolise-adventure-character-and-glory-now-they-are-the-games-most-boring-franchise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287265\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Brolly: The Dubs used to symbolise adventure, character and glory. Now, they are the game\u2019s most boring franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dublin manager Ger Brennan, left, and Mayo manager Andy Moran chat after the Allianz FL Division 1 match in Castlebar. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fbf2c598-7eec-4f3f-8441-b645cd046d8b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dublin manager Ger Brennan, left, and Mayo manager Andy Moran chat after the Allianz FL Division 1 match in Castlebar. Photo: Ben McShane\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cImagine how much better we would be if this is something that all coaches said before their players competed: \u2018Go out there and be boring\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This is a quote from the \u2018world-renowned master of elite sport Jonah Oliver\u2019 (Jonah\u2019s modest self-description), though it could be anyone from the Dublin senior management from 2019 to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dublin manager Ger Brennan, left, and Mayo manager Andy Moran chat after the Allianz FL Division 1 match&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[109956,2179,61,60,26885,4185,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-287265","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-allianz-football-league","9":"tag-dublin-gaa","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-joe-brolly","13":"tag-mayo-gaa","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}