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

If they were playing Mayo it would be "in the bag" in fairness 😝

i couldn't watch KK vs clare game and turned on radio 1 and he was commentating and to be honest, i hadn't clue what was going on, i didn't know where the ball was and couldn't get a feel for how the game was going. my father rang me at half time and i said that the games sounds alright and he told it pure sh*t kk are all over them. i find sky sports far superior in every way.

Im reading a lot about this galway mentality in finals. What is this mentality exactly?

It wasnt particularly prevalent in the connacht final in 1998 for example, where, after a replay they stumbled over the line against a far inferior outfit in roscommon. Even in the all ireland final, they only really played well in the second half, against what was an again, a noticeably inferior kildare side.

In fact the only time they didnt face an inferior side in a final - kerry, they lost.

So where is this final mentality thing manifesting itself? It doesnt really stand up to scrutiny.

The question was where is this winning mentality in finals though. The above doesnt reference it. Surely that would require winning a few finals against the head? They never actually done that is the point I am making.

Sorry but go through the personnel between those teams and the galway team, it isnt even a close contest...

The way I see the galway record since 98 is this, they dodged kerry on both occasions and won the all ireland without facing the best team in the country. Not their fault and fair play for taking advantage of that, but still the reality of the situation.

When they did face them, they lost to them. They also lost to ourselves in that time, and we had a pretty average team. This stuff about great records in finals is nonsense. They havent played in a final since then, and that is their fault.

As for the mayo comparisons, if galway win this weekend and then disappear again, are they any better than mayos run of 10 odd years? I wouldnt swap it personally.

I mean the entire 10 year period though

Kerry have lost 22 finals !

The stench of copium from that first paragraph, amazing.

Ah look Kerry were the best team in the country in 98 and 2001 according to you??, oul nonsense kildare bet them in 98 and meath bet them out the door in 2001.The best team in any given year is the team who take home sam its as simple as that and no rewriting of history will change that, give a bit of credit for heavens sake not an oul grudging well done but but but... Fact is we do have a good record when we DO reach a final thats just the way the statistics stack up simple as that,you can't be talkin about not reachin finals that doesn't count when the discussion was about performing IN finals.. And if Galway win at the weekend yes we will be better than the mayo teams who failed at the final hurdle because they will have got over that last final hurdle, like others I'd imagine you're in a minority when you say you wouldn't swap all that to win just once

You win all Ireland’s if your good enough and if your not ya don’t … onto the match Sunday galway are up against it … will have to keep it tight first 20 mins as Kerry will defo go for the juggler . We have a chance if we are in it with 15 to go … thought Kerry looked very nervy when Dublin got close and were there for the taking . We need more from play from forwards then we got in semi but I do think this game will open up as it goes on . Hopefully we come down the road with no regrets that all ya can for and what will be after that so be it .

I've loved the last ten odd years as a Galway Gaa fan. Since 2010:

1 x All Ireland Senior hurling championship Winners

2 x Leinster Senior Hurling Championship Winners

2 x National Hurling League Winners

1 x U21 All Ireland Hurling Championship Winners

5 x All Ireland Minor Hurling Championship Winners (including a historic 4 in a row)

1 x National Division 2 Football League Champions

2 x All Ireland U21 Football Championship Winners

1 x All Ireland Minor Football Championship Winners

3 x Connacht Football Championship Winners

Some 12 years indeed.