Kerry GAA discussion thread #2

Did Pat Spillane leave because he wasn't included on the panel today? It seems like they wanted rid of him.

SOS, living up to the name he saved us there. What an absolute baller

Thought Kerry were going to choke there..paudie Clifford and dara moynihan the two to keep up the fight.

Not to mention facing it against the wind and into the Hill! No doubt Jack and Tally will be concentrating on the second half fadeout when looking for analytical room for improvement, but it does seem like a psychological Rubicon was crossed today, in that often Kerry are criticised for folding when pressure comes on, but this is the first time in a number of years where we managed to turn the tide and come out on the right end of a close result, which'll do the team the power of good.

As per usual on the big days Geaney and Moran both extremely poor. From the start Dublin started running Moran at every opportunity and he was knackered after 20 minutes. Yes he kicked a few lovely passes in the first 20 minutes, but that’s it, that’s all he has in him. Absolute madness to start him. He kills Diarmuid O Connors game and Paudie Clifford as he takes the ball out of their hands. P Clifford came into the game massively as soon as he went off. Not to mention his poor turn over which led to the goal and the Dublin comeback. The Galway midfield will make mince meat of him if he starts the final. Surely after today it’s obvious that we need him in the final 20/25 mins of a big game. Barry, O Connor and A Spillane should be our 3 starters. Would be throwing Geaneys spot open too. Assume Tony Brosnan would have got game time today if Gavin White didn’t get injured.

Otherwise I thought everyone else played well. The obvious Clifford brothers and Sean O Shea. j Barry has beaten Fenton out the gate once again. Ryan had a solid display in goals. O Beaglaoich excellent. Morley excellent. Moynihan outstanding when he came on. A Spillane added a bit of steel when he came on. He’s as tough as nails.

Fair play to Jack and his team. The final could be a shootout!

PS- Hope Gavin Whites injury isn’t too serious.

Delighted. Not much to add. Probably should have won by more. Penalty miss and Stephen O'Brien picking off the ground were massive moments.

Felt we were in trouble for a while but massive free from Seanie.

Great to come out the right side of a game like that

Congrats Kerry , yous were the better team for me , probably should have won by a few more .

Congrats fellas. Best of luck in the final.

I'm developing a grudging and unhealthy respect for boy wonder. Great ambassador for the GAA in how he conducts himself after the whistle.

Looking at the match yesterday nerves got to some Kerry players. Forge83 is right in his analysis. When Graham and O'Bealoigh went off it was then Kilkenny came into the game. Who end up making him

It's not nice to hear to be honest, you have scummy elements with allot of county teams, my own worst experiences have always tended to be with dubs aswell.we Actually got attacked by a bunch of um in thurles after the drawn game in 01, after the 11 final the walk out of croker and back into the city was horrible. Don't know the name of the street but those crappy looking flats south east of stadium. Absolute vile abuse being spouted and objects and liquids being thrown down on us as we walked the road.

All that being said, some of the soundest level headed opposition supporters I've met have been dubs. The kind of lads that love to see the likes of Maurice Fitz, the Gooch, the O' Se's. Declan OS, seamus Moynihan, Clifford Seanie OS and many more play. The kind of lads that will compliment your team and certain player performances instead of jumping to crazy ignorant excuses.

Interesting to read that, I wouldn't have thought Geaney and O'Brien would be considered liabilities. After a few years in a bit of limbo, I think Geaney has come back as a very good team player, he seems to have a great understanding with Clifford and makes an awful lot of selfless runs to allow Clifford space. Very hard to handle the two of them inside imo. He wasn't great yesterday but has had a fine year from what I've seen.

O'Brien is a player most opposition teams hate to see on the team sheet, not the most "Kerry" of players but he's a real nuisance. Moyinhan might be the better player on paper but I think O'Brien is much more of a handful. The pick off the ground was poor yesterday in fairness.

Geaney and O'Brien were poor in posession but they worked their arse off. We could barely win a ball in the forwards after they went off. It also meant that D. Clifford had to track back more and looked really tired when he did get on the ball.

It's not a glamorous job but it's just one of the cogs that helps Kerry's forward line function.

That's not excusing some of the poor play in posession or the pick off the ground from SOB. There were some costly errors that really helped keep Dublin in the game.

Moran made a critical error for the Dublin goal again.

It was very similar to the Tyrone game last year except we managed to limit Dublin to 1 goal.

Ya noticed that, it always happens tho when a big scalp is taken out. Its kinda commom for them to deal more with the big team that have gone out in the immediate aftermath of the game as they'll give the next 2 weeks talking about kerry and galway.

Well the one I just listened to had nothing positive really to say and tipped Galway for the final

Absolutely not. Nothing could take the gloss off that win.

I don't think you were lucky at all with your experience. I'd say me and mystic were quite unlucky.

Normally after games I go to the Brian Boru, top of Whitworth Road which can be full of match going dubs and I've never had anything but a positive experience and it was the same before the game yesterday too.

When I got to Whitworth Road though, my bus was just pulling up so jumped on. I'll know for next time to let the bar stoolers leave first while the genuine fans enjoy a post match pint.