The 2024 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

For me, Clifford is an above average forward, no more.

Picking the best Kerry forwards I have seen would be Gooch, Fitzgerald, Spillane, Sheehy, Liston and Donaghy, with John Egan, James O'Donoghue and Ger Power next in line after that, all of them multiple All-Ireland winners, all of them contributing hugely to the game. Clifford isn't a multiple All-Ireland winner, he starred in one All-Ireland final, even this year, Con O'Callaghan, having a bad year, has scored more from play despite dropping out a round earlier.

Clifford might still leave a mark, but the years are passing.

Maurice Fitzgerald started for Kerry in one All Ireland final, and maybe won a second as a sub, so if you are making the winning of multiple All Irelands a criterion you have already ruled out one of the players you mention.

Always thought the winning of All Ireland medals as a measure of a player quite strange. I'd put Conor McManus ahead of the majority of All Ireland winners I've seen but he never even played in a final.

some people think Clifford is a great some don’t . Whatever side your on fair enough . But it’s getting tiresome . The man is an amateur player . Not sure he deserves all this critique .

Galway forwards were quiet enough. It was scores from their defenders Silke and McHugh that got them over the line.