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

Question for those more knowledgeable than I - when was the last time 1-11 was enough to win an AI final?

Edit: quick Google suggests 2015 when Dublin beat Kerry with 0-12 to 0-09. Thought it would have been further back.

2015, Dublin beat Kerry in a poor enough match by 12 to 9

You're not making a successful argument there

Fair play to Armagh, deserved champions this year. They took their chances in a way that other teams didn't, over and over. While somewhat defensive by historical standards, they at least try and go out and play football at times, kickpass, attack at pace etc, so probably better for the game as a whole that they won. Their win is also a welcome break from the dour, defensive tactics that Dublin have deployed over the last 8 or 9 years.

But this wasn't a very good or memorable final by any stretch and it finishes off what was a fairly worrying season for Gaelic Football. We had the (predictable) complete collapse of interest in what is the shambles of the Leinster Championship, the worst of all the provincial Championships. Then there was poor attendances across the group stages. And I find there is just a general feeling that football is not penetrating the public imagination the way it once did, and definitely not compared to hurling nowadays. Rule changes can't come quickly enough.

hahaha Dublin dour defensive tactics , that team is the greatest of all time bar none and racked up some absolutely huge numbers. I’d have hate to seen them playing attacking football, maybe they’d have had to be split in 8.

I don’t really agree to be honest, tactics in sports tend to change over time , I’m not sure if garrotting the rules is really the answer, it’s rarely seen as the answer in other sports. Bit off topic but with the introduction of all these gym bunny players they really need to change the sliothar, the ease of long range scores now is frankly ridiculous.

I think if you're looking at teams to blame due to the current style of football, you'd have to look back to the great kerry team. They were renowned for their fitness levels and hand passing game.

Ironically, Pat Spillane was lauded as one of the fittest players in the country. Probably the first forward to consistently help out in defence. Other forwards now mimic what Spillane himself started.

You just can't help yourself having a pop at Dublin at any opportunity

Soupy Norman

That did make me laugh 😂

"Exploited the rules to the max to put players anywhere on the pitch"

Ya make it sound like they put the ball down their trousers to stop the other team getting it

People seem to still have it in their heads that Galway play free flowing, attacking football like in the 90s, when that has not been the case in a long, long time and the evidence is there in front of everyone's eyes. Typical that Armagh are being blamed for the game being "dour", as if they forced Galway to play any way other than the exact way they've been playing all year. Galway were just as defensive as Armagh yesterday (and have been all year), the only difference is that Armagh actually showed a little bit more adventure and kept their heads at crucial moments.

The fact is, most teams are playing like this now.

Armagh had the much easier draw in Ulster wheras Donegal had to beat both Derry in Derry and Tyrone to get to the final. Donegal also drew with Armagh in the league in Armagh and beat them in Croke Park in a league final and in Clones in the Ulster Final this year. Fair play to Armagh they had a good win yesterday, but I would not see that as them being the team of the year.

Ah there has got to be leaders on the field too. Kelly was on the field at that stage and should have had a word with Walsh. When you are a point down and you get a 45m free you have to take it on. For Walsh to kick the ball sideways was criminal. I do agree that Joyce is the biggest culprit but lads on that Galway team didn't want to take responsibility. Gleeson kills that ball every time and it doesn't get dropped into the keepers hands. It's probably and 80 percent kick for the lad. So for that to happen was crazy. Great players win finals like that. Comer and Walsh are not great players.

ah behave yourself , what odds were they to win the all Ireland before ? 20/1 ? Higher?Course they are the team of the year, bleating on about the provincial championships doesn’t change that. I can’t see how huge underdogs winning the by far biggest trophy doesn’t make them team of the year to be honest. Whatever about provincial but talking about the league is laughable.

Ah yes football is over it's all terrible we need a rule change to make it better for the spectator - what do the amateur players of the sport think?

Who cares! This is about the entertainment of middle aged men who barely play at all

Genuine question - what do those proposing rule changes want the game to look like? Plenty of complaining about too much this too much that - what does the football of the future look like? Any examples?