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

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.

I have the tickets got for the final. I will be a Galway supporter for the day. Hope Galway put it up to Kerry for a good while at the very least.

I dont buy the vaughan thing personally. I dont believe that small was going to get a red tbh, I always felt that the ref was going to cop out and let him off with a last warning, letting gavin take him off. He didnt want to be deciding an all ireland final particularly one so close.

Vaughan gave him an easy out.

Ah now there's no way Small wasn't seeing line, regardless of Vaughans brain fart.

Kerry by 7.

Dont agree. It was a common theme with dublin, guys deserving red in the melting pot and never getting it. Refs just didnt want to be the guy to stop their streak. Imagine the heat they would get in that scenario. If he was giving a card he would have been going for it, but he wasnt. Then vaughan tried to rough him up to make sure he got the red and made a mess of it.

Anyway, those days are done. Galway can go on to dominate football, what with their final mentality and forwards as good as kerry's, or so ive heard over the last few days. Arent they both the traditionalists of football? Ironic that both teams play a blanket defence now, and that nobody wants to call it that any more...

Shur You're the one harping on about mayo, you seem to want to make the thread about mayo, it's all a bit needy imv , frankly no one here gives a damn, we're there on merit same as Kerry and we'll give it our best shot, we've a fine bunch of men goin up an we're well proud of them they won't leave anything behind on Sunday.. Then you're goin on about, nobody cares about league or provincial titles after bringing up beating us in 98 or 2001 along the road , obviously you care.. But here's another thing we care everytime our lads (or girls) win or lose, the minors, the under 20s, the juniors, the league even the fbd, we care for them all hurling or football.. Stop lookin over the neighbours garden wall damning him with faint praise, look at your own plot regroup and start looking to the future, don't be bitter, it's not very becoming

Is the mayo forum closed down or what … this is called all Ireland football 2022

Yes Offaly did beat Kerry in decline and won an All ireland , Mayo beat Dublin a serious decline and still failed to win an All IRELAND

Mayo should have beaten Dublin in at least 2 All Irelands when Dublin were at there peak

Your talking nonsense

I wasn't good at maths in school but 0 = 0. Dress it up all u want but 10 years of not getting it done = 0.