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

Too true, we'll manage a week at this stage I suppose!

Can't see Galway giving Kerry a scare next Sunday. They aren't in the league of Kerry unfortunately. This game will be won by Kerry by about 5 points. Could be wrong but unlikely Galway will be good enough to beat Kerry on the day.

I was disappointed to read on the listings on Sky that Darragh Maloney will be commentating on the final. A lot of people don't like Ger Canning but he is still the voice of Gaelic Football for anyone under 40. His voice was there in all of our memories. Any time I hear Darragh Maloney I think of the old RTE premier League highlights.

Agreed. Ger loves talking about "the fans"

Stop - Canning’s understanding of anything beyond ‘and that’s now 8 wides for Galway. That’s too many to win a championship match’ is minimal

According to Ger Cannings commentary in the semi final the final was played last Sunday week. Time he was put out to grass.

I agree, Maloney is miles clear of the rest. Marty's ok on hurling but can't help the contempt coming into his voice in football when any of the long passages of possession that are common place now happen. Ger has had his day sadly

Canning makes Marty sound like prime Ó Muircheartaigh. Canning is absolutely woeful. Maloney not great but the best of poor options.

Am I the only one who honestly couldn't give a sht what the commentators are saying. As long as they get the name of the player right I don't care and zone the rest out.

It's more that I don't even hear it. It just goes right over my head.

Also the reason they do that is because Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh set the template for hurling commentary. And honestly I don't know what makes him great either. Great knowledge and brilliant when it comes to interviews or documentaries but I am just as neutral on his commentary as I am the "sht" ones.

I wouldn't mind what they say if they ever **** up and let the game breathe. But Marty never shuts the fúck up.

Bingo

O'Muircheartaigh was a brilliant commentator, his ability to cover a gap in the game was extraordinary his flow was brilliant, and his sense oh humour was brilliant, his ability to tell a serious or daft story and give a quib at the end of it. I came across these below a bit back at his 90 th birthday and just copied and pasted them onto this message

GAA legend Mícheál O'Muircheartaigh has turned 90.

Here are some of his witty live commentary ‘quotes’

Seán Óg Ó hAilpín: his father’s from Fermanagh, his mother’s from Fiji. Neither a hurling stronghold.

…and Brian Dooher is down injured. And while he is, I’ll tell ye a little story: I was in Times Square in New York last week, and I was missing the Championship back home. So I approached a newsstand and I said, “I suppose ye wouldn’t have The Kerryman, would ye?” To which, the Egyptian behind the counter turned to me and he said, “Do you want the North Kerry edition, or the South Kerry edition?” He had both – so I bought both. And Dooher is back on his feet…

Anthony Lynch, the Cork corner-back, will be the last person to let you down – his people are undertakers.

Colin Corkery on the 45 lets go with the right boot. It's over the bar. This man shouldn’t be playing football. He’s made an almost Lazarus-like recovery from a heart condition. Lazarus was a great man but he couldn’t kick points like Colin Corkery.

The stopwatch has stopped. It’s up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God.

Teddy McCarthy to Mick McCarthy, no relation, Mick McCarthy back to Teddy McCarthy, still no relation.

I saw a few Sligo people at Mass in Gardiner Street this morning and the omens seem to be good for them. The priest was wearing the same colours as the Sligo jersey! 40 yards out on the Hogan Stand side of the field, Ciarán Whelan goes on a rampage… it’s a goal! So much for religion.

He grabs the sliothar, he’s on the 50! He’s on the 40! He’s on the 30… he’s on the ground!

Pat Fox out to the forty and grabs the sliothar. I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal… the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick… Fox, to the 21, fires a shot – it goes to the left and wide… and the dog lost as well.

In the first half, they played with the wind. In the second half, they played with the ball.

1-5 to 0-8… well, from Lapland to the Antarctic, that’s level scores in any man’s language.

Pat Fox has it on his hurl and is motoring well now, but here comes Joe Rabbitte hot on his tail… I’ve seen it all now, a Rabbitte chasing a Fox around Croke Park!

Teddy looks at the ball, the ball looks at Teddy…

Mike Houlihan for Limerick. He had his jaw broken by a kick from a bullock two months ago. He’s back now. ‘Twas some bullock that broke Mike Houlihan’s jaw!

Marty Morrissey doesn't sound genuine when he launches into his prepared spoken word pieces.

It's like a hammy impression of Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh.

Marty might be a genuine guy, but it has to be said that at times his commentary is so contrived that it becomes quite amateurish. I watched the hurling final on Sky Sports, the commentary was slicker, analysis was far more insightful and it led to a far better viewing experience.

I managed to catch Marty's piece during the pre-match parade later on, and it was as I expected. He was obviously reading from his prepared script as the teams paraded, and the gushing that ensued was drivel of the highest order. He was rushing the superlatives out, trying to fit his "words of wisdom" in before the game started. This made the whole thing sound quite inauthentic.

For the biggest day of the year for our national game viewers deserve better. Anybody who hasn't seen it yet should watch the video (it's just been posted here). It's so over the top that it almost becomes a caricature of itself.

Marty should be doing radio commentary - his work on the ending of the drawn 2013 final was pretty good, it came from the heart and seemed pretty genuine.

Darragh deserves a shot at the football final, hopefully he does get it...