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

Yes cause it really has improved the game right?

Kerry could start to dominate the decade now. They got the monkey off their backs. They are the one team that always come back and win and beat a team that might have an upper hand over them in the end. They do everything right in the county in that if a manager or players aren't delivering they are gone. No wonder they are so successful. The winner of this All Ireland was never in doubt. I think Kerry will have over 40 All Irelands by the end of this decade.

One team has suceeded. Enough said

Thought Galway had it but the paucity on their bench was the difference in the end. Enjoyable final for the neutral.

Clifford will always know there was a better player on the field on the day. Superb contest between them.

If you are rewarding players for basic skills like catching a ball, football is in bad way.

Handpassing over the bar is not smart it's the easy choice really.

Kick passing has not improved either.

The fact people thought yesterday was good game says it all.

Dublin almost beat Kerry, and if they had, would have been reasonably strong favourites in the final.

As things stand, they were the second best team in the championship this year - and a close second - and that was playing without Con O'Callaghan.

Yes they got relegated. Not sure how much they care.

Personally I don't mind the fisted point. I thought Spillane's was a good score yesterday, a different skill of taking on and beating a player close to goal etc... If they weren't allowed, he would probably have recycled the ball away from goal. And there's enough of that in the game.

But as someone who does mind it, what are are your thoughts on the palmed goal (from a handpass)? I would sooner see that go than a fisted point.

Same, just doesn't sit right with me. Would also agree with your suggestion that a mark be changed to inside the 21.

The reason the mark came into play is because teams are now more risk averse. If you got rid of the mark there would be a lot less kicking in favour of safer but slower buildups - overall it would be a worse spectacle

That is a bit like saying how long is a piece of string teams set up differently against different sides.

But the game surprised me at how open it was. Kerry had a load of chances they fluffed in the first half it seemed to be eating away at their confidence and the supporters in patches of that first half. But Kerry still managed to hang in there and get level a few times.

Maybe someone can correct if I am wrong but I don't think Kerry were two ahead until around the last part of the second half. But yet the scores in the second half 0-13 Kerry v 0-8 Galway.

I think 17 points or less would win plenty of games for teams like Donegal who if set up cagey and get the balance right with the attack. It is one of the reasons I am curious as to how Donegal do post Bonner. He restricted that Donegal team way too much. If managed properly they have a few AI's in them.

When Dublin were flying wasn't the phrase you have to score 20 plus to beat Dublin. And Dublin were economical with effort very few wides or hail mary shots. I feel that that Galway did something similar economy of effort not many wides. Not much wasteful stuff like Mayo constantly do dropping ball into the opposition keepers hands, sloppy wides, shooting from silly angles.

Obviously Walsh was the exception it did not matter where he decided to shoot from the last day, it was likely a score.

Mayo only scored 13 points v Kerry in the SF. The way Mayo shoot (and panic) in AI finals - I would guess that 17 points would beat Mayo if they played in a final.

I feel Joyce got the last ounce of effort out of that Galway team, he was very close to causing one of the biggest shocks in the last 20 years of Gaelic football. Mainly because he is tactically flexible and astute unlike other managers who only know one way of playing.

There are not many managers who do that even historically Jim Gavin did it for Dublin, O'Connor has done it for Kerry. Showing tactical flexibility and getting a team success with it.

It is a thing that holds back Ulster football they all copy each other and end up playing the same tactically, damn all variation. Then Ulster football is held up as a great championship mainly because the games are close. But the reality is IMO that they are one dimensional tactically. The irony is that the Ulster football, 'classic style' is very successful in ladies football. Which has been borrowed by the Meath ladies football team.

1) Funnel back - keep it low scoring

2) Don't take risks

3) Hit teams on the break/counter

4) Scoring backs and a workhorse full forward integral to the system

Mccarthy is probably dublins best ever player, but on this season he didnt deserve a place because he just didnt play enough games. T osullivan should go in at corner back and he has been shafted truth be told. Silke can be shoehorned into the halfback line if they so wish, as that is where he had his best game. He is lucky enough to get in also to my mind byt we know how the thing works. It feels like mccarthy is there to keep up the quota of dublin players in the team also.

Really enjoyable final in the end, Galway pushed us all the way in fairness. Just the lack of depth and a little cuteness caught them. We said before the match that the bench was a big advantage to kerry and it did prove decisive in the end. It haunted us for for years so we know the feeling.

I said before the match that Galway would need to score 2 or 3 goals to beat us and that's where I think they slipped up. They had their homework done and we're consistently able to pull our sweeper thaigh Morley out of position, but they played Comer to far out the field for the most part and could've get him on ball when he stayed in. He's the big goal threat. And when he was being handled handy enough we were halfway there.

Galway got an awful lot right but they needed it all to go 100% to succeed. There full back line and keeper are still a big problem for them, even when they were going well in the first half! There kickouts were poor enough.

What age is McDaid? Wow what a performance, when Galway were 2 points down in about the 63rd minute shortly before the free that some (not all) Galway supporters including Joyce and O'Neill are complaining about, he went on a run and won a free for what was a old fashioned shoulder to shoulder. Walsh tapped it over and McDaid followed up with another super point to level it up.

I was on here admiring and singing Shane Walshs praises before the Derry match and my god did he deliver on the big stage today. A joy to watch in full flow.

Hopefully Galway can address the few issues they have a give it a right go next year, there very close already. But there's no denying kerry deserved it this year, we had to go through Mayo Dublin and Galway to win it and you would have to put this 3 teams in the top 5 in the country with Dublin still almost (but not quite) at number 1.

A interesting championship next year for sure, but for now! There can be only one and we'll enjoy it.