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

Must say, the spitting doesn't bother me at all. I doubt any of the players give it a second thought.

Didn’t Anthony Tohill young lad was on bench. Image of him made me feel old!

Congrats to them and occasions like that are keeping the provincials alive

Can't see them going beyond the AI QFs but never know

Ya the 2 boys and o'rourke earning a very handy few quid today off the backs of amateur players yet they denigrate and insult them with remarks like "brutal".

They'd want to tone down the rhetoric A LOT. .

Donegal have played much better, attacking football under Bonner than they ever did with Gallagher so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

It wasn't a great game but not going all out to win is hardly unique to gaelic football.

Most of the last few champions leagues and Euro Finals have been appaling but there's a large dose of irony in people on social media who slate Gaelic Football in general have themselves down as Chelsea or Liverpool fans when they have won utter turgid finals over the years.

I do enjoy Soccer but there is incredible double standards whenever a bad Football game happens.

Back to Ulster though surely Donegal would be best served getting a new man in. They are starting to resemble Waterford Hurling with a talented squad but completely stifled by their approach.

Apparently it was a thriller according to the Indo

https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/as-it-happened-derry-beat-donegal-in-ulster-sfc-final-thriller-41700467.html

back in the supposed golden years of know it alls like o'rourke and spillane they handpassed the ball into the net. And split each others heads open regularly.

A round of qualifiers next week brings it didn’t to 4, then an open draw against the provincial losers, but I think there cannot be repeat ties (eg Armagh v Donegal).

The games involving the provincial winners will then be structured so that the winners of the Donegal and Roscommon qualifiers go up against Dublin and Kerry, with the winners of the Linerick and Kildare qualifiers going up against Derry and Galway

I know that handpassing, playing the percentages and the patient/slow build-up is common in Gaelic football now. They all do it, to an extent.

But why wouldn't Derry or Tyrone just throw the odd ball in on top of their full forward line ? Maybe they could have gotten some joy, we'll never know. Or at least to keep the full back line honest. You need some variation.

The two teams seemed to mirror each other with exactly the same tactics(or at least very similar), cancelled each other out really.

Thats such a knee jerk over exaggeration. You didnt like what you say today but to suggest drastic rule changes after it is plain silly.

As for the assertion that the "game is in a bad enough state" and "hopefully the gaa dont leave it too late" is exactly the kind of doomsday stuff people like you have been saying for 40 years every time the game evolves. But guess what, gaelic football has been around long before you or me and will be around long after us so theres no need for such silly over exaggeration.

"Today's game" is the problem. Today's Ulster Final was the worst example of it. Utter crap.