{"id":298851,"date":"2026-02-15T04:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298851\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T04:47:11","slug":"i-shouldnt-have-said-it-publicly-dublin-boss-ger-brennan-reflects-on-comments-casting-doubt-over-future-of-senior-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/298851\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I shouldn\u2019t have said it publicly\u2019 \u2013 Dublin boss Ger Brennan reflects on comments casting doubt over future of senior players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Brennan oversees his first win as Dublin boss after Dublin beat Monaghan\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"14 February 2026; Dublin manager Ger Brennan during the Allianz Football League Division 1 match between Dublin and Monaghan at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8b25e21b-115d-416b-a4f4-57ecdb33e57b.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)\">14 February 2026; Dublin manager Ger Brennan during the Allianz Football League Division 1 match between Dublin and Monaghan at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald\/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)\">Following his side\u2019s victory over Monaghan in Division One of the National Football League at Croke Park, Dublin manager Ger Brennan acknowledged he has been thrilled with the response from his players to remarks he made in the aftermath of a recent defeat to Mayo.<\/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)\">In the wake of their 1-18 to 2-9 reversal against the latter county in MacHale Park, Castlebar at the start of this month, Brennan spoke about the need to cut down the size of his panel before facing Monaghan in GAA HQ this weekend. Somewhat surprisingly, he was quite open about the prospect that some experienced players might be in danger of losing their spot within the set-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brennan oversees his first win as Dublin boss after Dublin beat Monaghan 14 February 2026; Dublin manager Ger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2179,61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-298851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dublin-gaa","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298851","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=298851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}