Enda McGinley believes that some in Dublin need to acknowledge the advantages that they have over other counties following another one-sided Leinster SFC clash with Meath yesterday.
The Boys in Blue are unbackable favourites for a 14th-straight provincial title, with Offaly and then the winners of Kildare and Louth standing in their way.
Yesterday marked a ninth straight championship victory for Dublin against Meath but six-time All-Ireland winner Paul Flynn, speaking on The Sunday Game, suggested that some of the other counties need to make a proper plan to catch the Metropolitans "rather than giving out all the time".
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There's a discussion to be had about the standard of inter-county GAA more generally in the eastern province, with the demise of the Meath, Offaly and Kildare footballers being matched by a similar fall off from the Offaly hurlers over the last 20 years.
And Flynn says that others need to get their own houses in order if they want to compete at the top level.
"We have to look at the Derry blueprint that's been shown to us," he began.
"They've beaten Dublin in Croke Park. OK, it's a league final... the resources Derry have are both in Kildare and Meath.
"If they both look at themselves and get people in the room to put a blueprint like that in place, they can absolutely go on a journey like that.
"But it takes a long-term vision. It takes getting the right people involved. They have Seán Boylan and Colm O'Rourke in that squad; who else in Meath is going to lead something like that?
"They have the best people that you could ask for to lead it. The whole structure piece is one part of it but I think people need to look at themselves and put a proper strategy in place, rather than giving out all the time."
However McGinley, a three-time All-Ireland winner with Tyrone, was having it none of it on the RTÉ GAA Podcast.
He argued that while Derry are in a good place at the moment, it's not the same as the juggernaut that is Gaelic football in the capital at the moment.
"I think Dublin need to stay clear of is telling the rest of the country to pull up their socks" he said.
"They do not have an idea of the work and the effort that has to go into other counties. Or how thin on the ground really top-level talent [is].
"They've hit a vein of real top quality players but Derry were, even in my time, in Division 1 finals. They had that All-Ireland in 1993 and they would have been hoping to nick an All-Ireland in the early noughties as well.
"Their fall down to Division 4, that was the outlier in terms of Derry, but they have been, more often than not, for the last 30 years a top-level team.
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"They've got a batch of players through now and they're doing phenomenal work, as there is phenomenal work going on in multitudes of counties, but you do not have the depth and money that Dublin have.
"If people want to tell others to pull their socks up, there is no comparison in terms of the talent pool and the financial backing that Dublin have.
"That's an unfair point. Can everyone do a bit better? Absolutely. Even within Dublin, can they do a bit better? Well absolutely.
"So I would always take that with a wee pinch of salt."
