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

Ah will ya stop,Galway don't have a top tier panel.When players start to tire they had nobody to bring on,they were gassed.This isn't a surprise,this has been an issue all year for them.

Galway did very well and put in a massive effort,I was shouting for them all week and today,Walsh is a joy to watch but saying that game hinged on a refereeing call is naive and dumb.

Probably a ploy to upset kerrys gameplan. Walsh rotated into the position and it worked for the most part. Surely there was a better way to use comer though. Not sure why they couldnt use both inside and maybe not be quite so defensive. Why not trust your backs a bit more? Joyce will face questions about that over the next few months, but maybe a few should be aimed at comer himself as to why he didnt really feature

Galway did as very pretty much what most Galway fans expected of them. They were underdogs and rightly so. Galway fans saw it as a tighter game than most of neutrals and it's exactly what they delivered. They lost but it wasn't the initalition many expected.

First All Ireland in over 20 years, got further than anyone would have expected at the start of the season. They aren't a bad team, just need a bit more depth and to add to the bench. Goalkeeper's style probably needs some refining but ther aren't doing a whole lot wrong, then just need a stronger overall panel.

They'll take a lot from it and build on it.

Fair play to ref, other than no awarding the black card, he did very little wrong.

He was carrying Jason Foley.

I thought Galway were harshly done for that late Spillane free but on further reflection Galway were lucky to not have their goalkeeper black carded earlier in the game which would have made things a lot more difficult for them. Apart from that i don't remember any real contentious decisions. Best team won though there's no doubt about that.

No idea where Heurson saw a foul for that late Kerry score. Crucial decision.

Like the way Shane Walsh is to Galway, like how everyone told us Dublin would have beaten us if Con was playing? Best player is important player to a team.. shocked

I wouldn't be sure Kerry will dominate from here on out. They'll take a lot of confidence from this but they don't look unbeatable and take Clifford out of the team, and they look a lot more ordinary. Some of the messing in the first half from them was ridiculous - getting caught in possession, stray passes, the shocking wides, faffing about with the ball only to get dispossessed or kick a wide. They're still prone to doing a lot of silly stuff.

Galway free for a fair shoulder later on too. Overall I felt it was fair enough. Galway keeper black card though imo.

Watching that live ,I thought the ref would give a free. Watching the replay, it was the most perfectly executed fair shoulder we are likely to see. I think that in real time the ref thought it was two lads sandwiching a player. Genuine mistake, wrong decision.

Whoooooooo. Had completely forgotten what it felt like to actually win in croke park on final day. My god if i could bottle it, I would. Hope my boss is understanding this week

David Clifford is injury prone. So there is the chance he might miss the odd big day.

It was interesting on the ‘GAA hour’ Darran O’Sullivan seemed to imply that having David Cilford made the rest of the Kerry lads lazy. In that they are slow to make runs and support Clifford. Instead happy to let him do his thing on his own in space.

Not trying to set the narrative at all. Just my opinion, others have already disagreed with me and they are right Galway did probably expect more from the scoring forwards but I don't think we expected a hugely different result.

Nice username btw, when you say Mayo are Magic, I presume you mean their annual disappearing act?!

Hope I never see the likes of Flynn used in comparison to Clifford’s footballing ability in the coming years.