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

You forgot about the other periods of madness in the Mayo and Roscommon x2 games this year. Armagh wasn't an isolated incident.

I think Galway will get an easy ride into the final by the media - lovely forwards - tradition - etc. - with very little real analysis of their strengths and weaknesses. In any case all the pressure is all on Kerry, Galway literally have nothing to lose.

Maybe if Kerry win this they will kick on and win a good few but right now there is nothing to suggest they are unbeatable.

Are Galway really that much worse than the Tyrone team that beat Kerry last year.

Sport would be awful boring if you can't go to a final thinking your team might actually win it.

I wouldn't say your biased or that they are not getting the credit they deserve,

It's just the way it is particularly with a young team, they haven't set the world on fire scoring wise or beaten any of the big teams, plus if they were already knocking on the door for a few years! You would say that experience would stand to them and they would be ready for the next step.

However nobody is doubting there talent or more importantly their ceiling if they can get there heads right in tight games against top quality opposition, they can't properly close games out and there full back line is all at sea under the high ball. A better team could make hay against that.

These are questions that they will have to answer like everyone else. They have made massive strides this year but are still green in allot of areas. If they can do all that you would think they certainly have an all ireland in um but maybe it's too soon for them this year

Not half the team they once were.

A couple of posters should take off the blue tinted glasses....

Dangerous play is certainly NOT well defined. In fact it's not defined at all..... Check it out for yourself.

(The same goes for a melee -no definition in the rule book and players have gotten off on that very technicality. )

The ball wasn't at his body there are two players going for the same ball both moving towards the ball.

If we're going to really get technical it should have been a retake as the keeper has moved off his line before the ball is struck.

Regardless the connection with the head is incidental contact which is permitted, in fact specifically mentioned in the rules. If you watch the video you can see him losing his balance as a result of his right foot landing on Comerfords outstrecthed hand and when he makes contact with his left boot theres no recoil from Comerfords head - there would be if it was a kick.

You don't seem to understand the rules of the game. Just because something is a foul doesn't mean its a card. There's no assault - that's at best a farcical statement. There's no dropping of the knee to someones head.

I'm presuming you're actually just trying to wind Kerry supporters up given that you've twice mentioned David Gough who wasn't refereeing, nor even a linesman.

Why not be balanced and call for a red card for Fenton who put his arm around a Kerry players neck from behind to drag him away from his opponent in the seconds after this incident? That's deliberate, and dangerous. (To be fair to Fenton he appeared to realise and stopped and moved done to his arms

Exactly right. You have nothing to lose in a final, until you lose it. The same media who built you up have f all to do at that point except get stuck into you for the next few months.

Walsh is a great player with devastating ability, but he makes a mistake in a tightish final and they lose - even if they are outsiders - and he will be picked apart in snidey articles until christmas. Same with comer and whoever else.

Indeed michael fitzsimons will probably get a bit of it in the off season, maybe a few more pulled in for good measure. Im surprised the dub fans dont seem to realise this at this stage, thet seen ourselves get plenty of it after simply losing a big game that we werent even favourites for. That is how the media works these days. They are full of sh*te but you have to just grin and bear it.

I think it is mad that people are saying kerry have 2 top forwards. It was geaney that kept them out of hot water when others werent in it against mayo. Ironically enough, i would bet that it will be the likes of geaney who will be the difference against galway.

Galway will probably set up very defensively and double up on sos and clifford, with kerrys other forwards being too good to be left idle and popping up for scores. Galway can also be over-zealous in the tackle and i think kerry will be cute enough to engineer frees from it.

Fully agree and I said so at the time.

Fake news. That's a load of images of worried supporters from different matches just copied and pasted together.

I saw that on twitter earlier. Meath footballers Emma Duggan, Vikki Wall and Aoibhin Cleary are in that photo too. Top right corner.