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

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.

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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.

Yes agree with this. Was at the Dublin v Kerry and Limerick v Kilkenny games and watched todays game at home. Being at the game live enhances everything tenfold. There is no comparison.

Cillian McDaid was excellent, he's had a massive year

Kerry just about got over the line. They must have been happy to be only a point down at half time. Third quarter was crucial. Had Galway gone 3 up when it was 14-12 it might have been a different story but they finished the game that bit stronger.Though outside of David Clifford I'm not sure they were much better than Tyrone last season. There's talk of them dominating but you would have expected them to be further down the line with all the All Ireland winning minors of 14-18.

It was a good show from Galway. Too many times over the years they would leave you frustrated watching them. Not to be today but a huge difference in attitude and know how this season.

The challenge now for them is maintaining that. Wouldnt surprise anyone if they didn't build on it for 2023 but maybe losing today could be key to their development.

A decent final all in all. Maybe not as good as 2017 or 2019 but a bit better than I would have expected beforehand.

Padraic kelly got man of the match in 93 for galway losing to kk in an all ireland. I think Walsh deserves motm some of points were breathtaking. Unfortunately we had no players of the calibre of the spillanes on the bench.

Thats an interesting question. Peter Canavan in 95 must have been in contention since I think he got all but one of Tyrone's scores on the day. But just googled it, and it was Paul Curran

They were at Limerick's banquet in 1996 but seemed to be winning banquet only not long after that.

With Youtube/Podcasting nowadays that's become the primary post match reaction area.

Flynn was a complete different type of player an all rounder. Did the dirty work covered the ground for the more flamboyant players. Plus he could take a score rarely wasted ball.

David Clifford - great player but is dependent on others to give him the ball.

His performance of fielding today says otherwise...

He is the most skillful forward in the country.

Only guy coming near him is walsh.

Such bitterness. If Galway were the better team for that long they'd have got over the line. They didn't. They took on a Kerry team under massive pressure from the favourites tag and really went for the jugular and were the better team for the first half. And kept neck in neck for the second half too. And Galway are an excellent team and soon to be All Ireland champs, no doubt. But the better team hangs on and doesn't wilt. Galway wilted today. Kerry's experience, better management, better team performance and better bench won the day. The better team won, not hugely better, but still better and now deservedly All Ireland champions. Get over it!