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

Some of those are hard to enforce. For example, what if the corner back goes bombing up the field, can the corner forward not track him once he crosses the halfway line? What if the gk is taking frees? I agree on the tackle though, it is currently way too loose and it is suiting blanket defences and harsher on teams who are trying to play. If they enforced tackling rules properly and also the steps rule at the same time it would stop a lot of this stuff. Furthermore if teams had the cop on to work on the forward mark it would counter a lot of it also.

One thing i think needs looking at is the advantage rule. If a guy takes on a shot, im not sure the advantage should come back if it goes wide. They have played on and had a scoring opportunity.

A bigger issue i see is lack of meaningful punishment for cynical fouls when teams try to counter attack. They should be yellow cards every time.

I didnt 'piggy bag', or piggy back for that matter, onto anything. I was very much part of the initial conversation. Not that that matters, I mean surely you are 'piggy bagging' here yourself? Does that mean you aren't entitled to engage in the discussion?

Clifford is a more skillful player than any of them. Connolly was very skillful but clifford is only a young lad and he is already showing a higher skill level than connolly did at his peak. As was already pointed out, darren daly has the same number of all irelands, and all due respect to him, but it displays that all ireland wins dont corrolate to individual skill.

I don't know why people are bothering arguing with you. You referred to Clifford as

"anonymous in big games Clifford"

There is a neighbours dog barking outside my window at the moment who has more of a clue about it that you have.

Calm down lad, theres always next year

The referee did give yellow cards every time for cynical/tactical fouling, Kerry ended up with quite a few yellow cards yesterday but it isn't enough of a deterrent. Really slows down the game.

Speaking of the dark arts, once Clifford got an early yellow card yesterday, I was a bit surprised the Dubs didn't take turns trying to provoke him in wresting matches etc. hoping for a "yerra give them both yellows" type reaction from the ref.

Not 'near' it. Like not even on the panel. So that makes, what, 12-15 Dublin forwards of the last decade better than David Clifford? In your head.

Ya, I surprised by how much people are writing off Galway. Its hard to compare the form lines. I think Mayo are really the only useful overlap, but Galway have improved game on game since they played Mayo and its no mean achievement to beat them in the championship in their home ground even if it was only by a point.

I'd imagine Galway will carry a far bigger attacking threat than Dublin did yesterday. They have 4 scoring forwards and 2 scoring midfielders. All of their full forward line on any given day is capable of bagging goals and a hatful of points. Even Kerry don't have the same breadth of an attacking threat as Galway do, obviously DC and SOS are far superior individually to anything Galway have, but the rest of the Kerry attack is fairly ordinary, Geaney is a passenger at this level. Stephen O'Brien is a very limited footballer, but has a burst of speed over 5 yards that takes him past a defender and allows an offload to a shooter and is quite important in that respect to Kerry, Paudie Clifford while very effective especially in the second half yesterday is a work horse, Diarmaid O Connor is more a rangy midfielder than a forward also.

It may well be that it is just a general step up in class, physicality, pace and intensity for Galway and they might be beaten comfortably, it is hard to tell.

Like the Limerick hurlers, we are kind of waiting for a complete Kerry performance for 70 minutes, which apart from the Limerick game we have not seen. They looked out on their feet yesterday in the last 10 minutes and I would have feared for them in extra time. Clifford had stopped making those runs that he had been doing in the first half, Spillane seemed to lose some confidence after a bad wide, at one stage I saw Seanie O Shea admonishing him for bring back in his own full back line - he was obviously intended to be the target man in the FF line.