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

'Ban from all football-related activities' like in soccer? Never fully got that one. You mean you can't have a kickabout in your back garden?

inflation, the huge family costs to attend now compared 2019 than anything to do with Covid I'd reckon.

I think Dublin will have too much for Kerry and Galway will beat Derry.

Galway have 6 top class forwards a decent midfield and their defensive set up is improving rapidly. They were comfortably the better team against Armagh but got sloppy and almost got caught.

It will be the first time all year Derry have come up against a team with such a spread of dangerous forwards and it will be interesting to see how Rory Ball can get even more defensive. Galway can cope comfortably with Derrys two dangerous forwards. Derry biggest threat is runners from deep on the counter, but they are going to be so busy keeping tabs on the Galway attacking threat that this will be nullified. For what it's worth Galway blew them away in the leauge it won't be as emphatic this time but Galway to win again.

Alot of supporters also staying due to the result being largely known before the game, Dublin into their 12th straight semi - you will get probably get a full house for Dublin kerry I would imagine.

And how exactly did I lose control of my emotions. I made one comment about the character of the Armagh team which has shown itself to be true throughout not just this year but previous years. It wasn't Galway that got involved in three melee's this year. It wasn't Galway targeting players off the ball. And it wasn't Galway eye gouging opposition players.

Goldrick and his officials can take a lot of blame for what happened yesterday. 3 Armagh players should have seen the line for head high tackles and thats before you get into the targetting of Walsh where he was kicked, wrestled to the ground twice and clotheslined with no action taken. Goldrick is a poor ref but yesterday he took it to new depths.

Rugby now have 6 kicks from different points with 3 kickers each taking 2.

You could always have a mix of long range and penalties just make the penalty worth 1 same as the points.

Dublin will have to much for Kerry ? Really have you seen Dublin play in 2022 ? Not a patch on Dublin at there peak .

Dublin are in decline ,an ageing team with an extremely weak bench , Kerry will not be losing this game .

Kerry were really poor yesterday. Still the same defensive frailties and Mayo held them quite well at the back even though they didn't defend in numbers. Once again if Mayo had any decent forwards then they would have won the game but they can't finish. They kicked wide after wide and messed up goal chances. I don't think Dublin are that great but neither are Kerry. This All Ireland is wide open for any of the 4 left.

There is no defending the eye gouging or off the ball stuff but melees aren't a northern or Armagh specific problem; it's a GAA problem which is going to remain as long as we allow discipline procedure to be continually undermined; this year it's Clare and Galway but over the year's most teams have been guilty.

Most counties, my own included, have given free passes to county stars when they act the b0llix at club games.

The strength of GAA lies in its tribal nature, but it is also its biggest weakness.

On McGeeney, people might want to listen to what Daniel Flynn of Kildare says about him in the podcast below; it not just his regard for him as a football person but as a man. I've rarely heard of praise as high as Flynn gives above or heard anything but people who know him for all counties talk about him in anything but the highest regard

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0cdy8yk

Will probably only be a kick of the ball between dubs and kerry, kerry always rise for this game.

Dublin under Gavin always found kerry tricky even though kerry would have been deemed weaker.

The officials should have to come out and explain the decision to send off Kelly and Nugent.

Kelly was visibly upset and even after the game looked shattered despite the win.

Nugent seemed to take it a bit better but neither contributed to the melee but could be seen trying to calm their own teammates down (up to the Gouge anyway when Kelly was really angry but didn't do anything worthy of a red card).