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

Jesus pat Spillane getting choked up..

It’s amazing that it’s come full circle that his dad was a selector against Galway and his last game on the Sunday game is Kerry vs Galway.

Great final, massive entertainment, some serious scores

Better team won. Galway ran out of legs and lack of bench killed them

I was shouting for Galway (the underdog) but delighted for Pat signing off on a Kerry All Ireland victory. Best wishes Pat.

Great day . Galway finished after 55min legs were gone, Kerry won after a hard game but pulling away.

Think kerry will dominate for next 4/5 years. Dublin are in transition. Can't see Galway or Mayo or Ulster getting near them . kerry will only get better and Jack will want to win back to back AI at senior level.

It may be that Kerry just needed any kind of sloppy win to get their first under their belt. The do have talent on that team. But ,jeez, an All Ireland medal in the back pocket takes away a lot of nervous tension in the seasons ahead. They are the team to beat in the next few years.

"Looked comfortable" with their "poor shooting" ?

Galway did definitely need a goal and the team with the better skill does usually come good in the final 10 because they put less work into the other 60 to stay level. We saw this all championship with the Limerick hurlers too.

16 points won’t win too many finals

Only 2 of their forwards scored and one of them is a converted half back.

Turns out they don’t have the forwards 

Shane walsh was sensational today to be fair . But all the rest didn’t turn up including comer

Fair play to Kerry. They kept playing football and found a way in the end . They are entirely reliant on Clifford though. Next year is wide open

Inevitable result. Fair play to Galway for keeping it competitive for the most part.

Target-man Comer was quiet today.

I think you can only class a win as comfortable if your team is winning from the first minute, like kilkenny used to do when they were winning titles in a row. Kerry looked uncomfortable for the majority with the amount of wides they had but just the experience of finals helped them not panic. Can see Tyrone beating them next year but no one else.

Jeez I got weepy looking at Pat breaking down in the studio. For all his foibles, that emotion was genuine and easy to understand.

My team of the championship:

Ethan Rafferty (Armagh)- pick of the bunch in a non-vintage year for goalies.

Chrissy McKaigue (Derry)- solid all year, shut out most of his opponents.

Seán Kelly (Galway)- excellent all year, and steady today.

Tom O'Sullivan (Kerry)- stand-out back of the championship for me.

Brendan Rogers (Derry)- bit of a utility man but in Derry's top performers every day.

John Daly (Galway)- under-rated playmaker, forward runs posed problems today.

Gavin White (Kerry)- injury-hampered final, but has taken up Jack McCaffrey's mantle as the speedster of the game.

Cillian McDaid (Galway)- 0-4 points in the final to cap off one of the best championship campaigns ever from a midfielder.

Conor Glass (Derry)- before today, I would have just plumped for Conroy, but he was below-par while Glass was probably more consistent overall.

Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin)- excellent in defeat vs Kerry. Mr. Consistent.

Seanie O'Shea (Kerry)- quiet today by his high standards, but Kerry wouldn't have been there without him.

Rian O'Neill (Armagh)- was perhaps a FOTY candidate earlier in the campaign, Armagh's heartbeat.

David Clifford (Kerry)- the fielding of Donaghy, finesse of Maurice Fitz and Gooch. Genie.

Con O'Callaghan (Dublin)- his importance best measured by his absence vs Kerry.

Shane Walsh (Galway)- as good a performance ever seen from a losing finalist. Clutch free taker.

Graham O'Sullivan, Jarlath Og Burns, Paul Conroy, Damien Comer unlucky to miss out.

FOTY: Clifford.