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

Watching a bit more of this on +1. I think it's a sign of a really poor year where only 3 teams are represented in the panels team of the year. What was it, 7 from Armagh, 5 from Galway and 3 from Donegal.

They're trying to make a plea for a Louth player to get a place in the official team of the year. Why didn't ye do it yourselves? And it's a bit like, nobody was really outstanding, it's a poop year, so let's stick some fringe contentious players in there on top of a poop All-Ireland tree.

100%. Great work by him to get into that position and anticipation

I think Walsh's misses had everything to do with Armagh's defence. The tightness of their defence was what forced Walsh to kick from implausible distances a few times, and pressure from a defender forced him to kick one bad wide from play.

A bad miss without an excuse was one of the other forwards (forget who) who took a mark near the goal and missed a very kickable score in the second half.

football is a factory now

Gaelic football is in serious trouble as a spectacle imo. Maybe two points should be awarded for a long range point. Just do something for gods sake to encourage more positive and attacking play. Jim McGuinness and his Donegal team in 2012 have a lot to do with this imo.

This to me shows what can happen when resources are put into sport and used properly.

GAA in NI can pull finding from both sport NI and Sport UK, and as a result seem to be able to invest in proper facilities and coaching etc. There are nearly 40 NI athletes taking part on the Olympics in all sports for instance, and schools/underage players in particular are more developed than most of their southern opponents.

We could be looking at northern teams for a while.

Jesus lads, Darragh Moloney is a poor enough commentator for an AI final.

I think I could point to a 1000 examples of sportspeople saying it was lucky or it was meant to be a cross not a shot or visa versa. So I’m not sure why it’s obvious he would say that, It wasn’t exactly a wildly difficult pass so I’d be inclined to just believe him on it.

I don't have an issue with Shane Walsh being off target with the frees he is not a natural freetaker. The issue is the mark and the free he dropped short giving possession to Armagh from which they went straight up the field and definitely got a point from one if not both. At Junior B level you tell the kicker to make sure to kill the ball, so at least you can set up to press the kickout. It's unforgiveable and braindead for him to drop to placed balls short from inside the 45, a juvenile player would get bollocked for it. That was a 4 point swing in a 1 point game, Joyce must be at his wits end with him.

To me, I would have subbed Comer and Walsh in the last 10 mins. 100% a poor coaching and tactical decision. Those wasteful frees, short kicking into goalie's hands and shooting into no man's land was a point lost. When you think that Galway only needed one point for extra time. They must be kicking themselves.

What a load of absolute horseplop.

Imagine blaming Jim McGuinness for anything, when:

1. Some of the football that Donegal team played was absolutely absorbing and gave us some cracking games. That team felt destined to win that All-Ireland from the second the ball was thrown up in Ulster that year.
2. It was followed up by the most exciting and entertaining team to ever play the game and indeed, probably going up against another exciting watch, in that Mayo team.

This constant negativity is absolutely exhausting. No one's forcing you to watch the game, but you add nothing by throwing out ill-informed crap like that.

Pepper your posts with some "blanket", "defence", "typical Ulster" and "puke football" tropes to really get us going. 🙄

Thought it very strange Walsh kicking that first free with his left. Was it his right hamstring giving him trouble???

That would explain him taking frees with his left, and also dropping balls short. Maybe a slight fear of damaging it again.

This would be on management. No player is going to say I'm not up to it. Manager should have taking the decision out of his hands.

Or if I remember correctly, Diarmuid Connolly took a free in an All Ireland final. Cluxton was coming up to take it, and Connolly just waved to say , its OK, I've got this.

Comer, or another team mate could have stepped in and said I'll take this. They would of known better than anyone that Walsh was struggling to kick through on the ball.

Maybe galway just lacking leadership, on and off the field

They are already trialling that

Ah I don't know Walsh has a habit of doing crazy things in games. He can be very infuriating to watch. His last free, if his hamstring was tight you'd pull it at the stage for the sake of the game. Cannot be dropping balls short at that stage.

Every single time they name the all star team on the Sunday game they see to only pick players from the semi finals onwards.Pretty sure there were only 3 or 4 teams represented on the hurling equivalent last week and there won;t be much more variety in the official all star awards named for each team either.

The all star awards are pointless, better off to have a team of the week named every week in football and hurling from the start of the league onwards and the most cumulative points picked up by players named on the team of the week gets an all star award (they could have different points allocations for each stage of the year i.e slightly higher points for championship than league) at least something like this would reward players for playing well throughout the year and not just having a standout performance in a final or semi final.