Mod Note Post #1 - The 2022 All Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Roryball doesn't seem to suit Galway

Last three games against Galway (2017 as Donegal manager,League encounter this spring and today)

10-36 conceded and just 1-32 scored

I'd give Galway a decent chance of winning the final if they defend as well as they did today with huge intensity and aggression in their play. Dublin are not good as they use to be especially with bench options, question marks over Kerry also have lost to Cork,Tyrone the last two years and Galway beat them in Croke Park in 2018.

Would have guessed the same but it’s hard to gauge Dublin.

an 11 point victory over Cork was a result that actually flattered Cork…

Dublin passed up a few goal opportunities and indeed intensity waned late on …

be an interesting watch. With Con and McCarthy absent I’d say Kerry.

I can't quite decide if it was good tactically or not.

Derry completely **** the bed in attack, but it seemed to be as simple as Galway just packing that central scoring zone and letting Derry faff about with the ball. They didn't even try to go down the sides and the few long range shots were all rushed and terrible.

Derrys plan was always to be holding the ball until the right moment and then breaking the line past a defender and working a shot on goal. They completely failed to do this because they only ever tried to penetrate down the middle, and every single time they came near a Galway defender they immediately turned back and recycled the ball. So because Galway had the middle packed they didn't really have to do much to stop them.

Is it tactical genius to do something simple that negates the opposition? Or were Derry so unbelievably bad that they just made Galway look good?

Derry not a bad team, they beat 3 division 1 teams this year and won an Ulster title, which is still the toughest province. They've probably overacheived but they've plenty to work with going forward. They've had a good season. Can't believe they didn't try to exploit the Galway keeper though, he was there for the taking.

Galway changed it up in the second half and it paid off. They were woefully negative in the first half. I still think there is a flakiness about them though. Even though they won today, they weren't as clinical as you'd like imo. Some of the wides in the first half were terrible. Still I think they have a great chance in the final, they won't have any fear. Kerry untested and Dublin are ponderous in attack without Con imo.

Tailteann Cup game was great. Galway v Derry game was an odd one . Would not have called Galway winning beforehand. Comer’s second was the strangest goal I saw in CP. Previously to that Hawkeye was a boost to Galway big roar start of second half.

Derry fans did not seem too disappointed because Derry were well beaten.

It was obviously an adjustment because they were cutting through them for fun for the first 12 mins but Galway figured out not to go to the man in possession as he was unlikely to shoot. Concentrate on the runner who had just gone for a give and go and they'd cut out the main Derry attacking threat. They cut it out and Derry didn't score from play again for 40mins. An indictment of Derry but kudos should be given to the defence who figured it out as a group. No matter what side the attack came the result was the same.

Kerry or Dublin won't be as one tactically one dimensional but they're also not as solid defensively and won't/can't afford to spend so much time exclusively locking down the Galway attackers.

I know Kerry and Dublin look at a different level to everyone else but Galway have a great record in finals.

What a ridiculous comment. There are poor umpiring decisions in every second game, should we get rid of those?

The system is obviously out of calibration however, and that needs to be examined. Given what we could see from the generated graphic a camera or goal position looks like it was changed and not entered correctly into the software, that or some other hardware malfunction.

What the team need to do is proper validation before games.

No Hawkeye tomorrow.

You can’t get rid of human error.

you can dispense with either equipment that is unreliable or those who may not install and or audit it’s accuracy before it’s live use.

id love to know what testing scenario is in place before it’s use …on match days…

surly the obvious would be to kick points from various angles and of varying heights and speeds, film the balls going over the bar and compare the filmed points to the Hawkeye interpretation… if Hawkeye is accurately representing the actual path and trajectory of the football… off we go.

if a discrepancy is noted, forget it…

nothing ridiculous about anything I’m saying.

Yes, people saying Galway were cut to shreds in the opening quarter are wrong. It appeared to me that Galway were really focused on not conceding a goal early. They gave up a couple of relatively easy point chances but snuffed out any goal chances. Derry have been hitting teams for early goals in every game. It energises them and gives them a platform to hit teams on the counter. I felt at halftime that Galway would be happy enough with how things went. They went for it a bit more in the second half and put Derry away fairly easily. Derry looked terrible when the had to chase the game. Galways game plan seemed to work well. Derry are very limited in the forward department. Galway have class forwards, Derry held some of them today but Comer cut loose. McDaid did a job on Glass aswell.

I fancy Gakway to go all the way, they have the forwards to do it. No matter who they play it should be a better of a final. Derry are God awful to watch.

The very last thing the football game needs is to discourage long range shooting. The long range shot is often the only way past a blanket defence, imagine if that option was made less viable. The game gets even more defensive again.

Hurling does indeed though need to sort out the farce of being able to score basically anywhere on the field.

You can ring the GAA up and tell them it’s a ‘ridiculous’ decision as they have decided to bin Hawkeye for tomorrow.

i really can’t call tomorrow, I’ll go draw.

Dubs 13/8 at home in an AI s/f vs a team that havent beaten them in 11 years...cant leave that behind.

And if I lose, i'll be delighted!