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

I think Galway fans would have expected more from their scoring forwards. Walsh turned up but I think Heany was the only other forward to score, weighing in with a point.

Talk about trying to set the narrative!

Another one might be, the much vaunted galway forwards were shown up to be a one man show. And that galway were very much in it until the pressure came on and they started kicking daft wides down the home straight. Furthermore their manager's decision not to build more of a squad over the year proved to be a bad one, while his decision to effectively take comer out of the game didnt help the team. Furthermore the famed galway final mentality abandoned them whem they needed it.

Now you could go down the route of comparing walsh's last kick with cliffords last kick, and saying he bottled it etc etc, but that wouldnt be for me, personally.

That was a good match Galway really put it up to Kerry who looked edgy first half about 4/5 careless wides. Second half Kerry outscored Galway 13 to 8. Kerry fans looked very worried for large parts of the match.

Even though Galway lost McDaid my pick for MOTM.

Or the double fair shoulder that got Galway a free around the same time

In Dublin's prime they had match winners all over their forward line. Flynn, Kilkenny and Connolly were the half forward line never mind the inside assassins. I don't see this Kerry team anywhere near as good up front as that team. Clifford is some talent and O Se to a much lesser extent. Outside of that their workmanlike but lacking real stardust. For Kerry's sake Clifford better remain injury free for the next 5 years.

I don't know the Sky commentators name but after a few minutes of the RTE commentator I switched over. The guy on Sky was much better, more intelligent and more knowledgeable.

How do you know the Sky commentator was more intelligent? Did he and RTE's Darragh Maloney supply you with an IQ test result pre game?

What other team around now has such "stardust" sprinkled around their forward line?

But you can see a free might have been given since there was heady contact. Heurson must have imagined contact for the Kerry one.

Hope i never see this Kerry team being favourably compared to that great Dublin team over the coming years.

Yep can see how a ref could see it but it wasn’t a free imo

Aside from when Gleeson tried to kick it short to a ghost and gifted Kerry the ball for no reason.

Galway gave themselves every chance in that game. In the final quarter, around the 60min. mark ,they had two chances to get in behind the Kerry hal-back, midfield line. The first chance was a Galway lad with vision to see the play ,but slightly mistimed his hand pass. Kerry intercepted and I think they may have got a point from that play. A minute later a Galway player under the Hogan, cut inside to line up a left foot shot at the posts. Between the Kerry half-back and full back line were three Galwaymen in that space. He shot wide of the posts and you could see the disgust /disappointment in those three players demeanour.

A Gooch/Connolly would have popped a ball into that space. I think Galway were a point behind at the time.

Zzz

Im sure I could knock a gag out of sunny sundays being few and far between, but then id be the type to claim that walsh bottled his last kick, or that comer wilted on the big day, etc etc.