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

Inevitable result. Fair play to Galway for keeping it competitive for the most part.

Target-man Comer was quiet today.

I think you can only class a win as comfortable if your team is winning from the first minute, like kilkenny used to do when they were winning titles in a row. Kerry looked uncomfortable for the majority with the amount of wides they had but just the experience of finals helped them not panic. Can see Tyrone beating them next year but no one else.

Jeez I got weepy looking at Pat breaking down in the studio. For all his foibles, that emotion was genuine and easy to understand.

My team of the championship:

Ethan Rafferty (Armagh)- pick of the bunch in a non-vintage year for goalies.

Chrissy McKaigue (Derry)- solid all year, shut out most of his opponents.

Seán Kelly (Galway)- excellent all year, and steady today.

Tom O'Sullivan (Kerry)- stand-out back of the championship for me.

Brendan Rogers (Derry)- bit of a utility man but in Derry's top performers every day.

John Daly (Galway)- under-rated playmaker, forward runs posed problems today.

Gavin White (Kerry)- injury-hampered final, but has taken up Jack McCaffrey's mantle as the speedster of the game.

Cillian McDaid (Galway)- 0-4 points in the final to cap off one of the best championship campaigns ever from a midfielder.

Conor Glass (Derry)- before today, I would have just plumped for Conroy, but he was below-par while Glass was probably more consistent overall.

Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin)- excellent in defeat vs Kerry. Mr. Consistent.

Seanie O'Shea (Kerry)- quiet today by his high standards, but Kerry wouldn't have been there without him.

Rian O'Neill (Armagh)- was perhaps a FOTY candidate earlier in the campaign, Armagh's heartbeat.

David Clifford (Kerry)- the fielding of Donaghy, finesse of Maurice Fitz and Gooch. Genie.

Con O'Callaghan (Dublin)- his importance best measured by his absence vs Kerry.

Shane Walsh (Galway)- as good a performance ever seen from a losing finalist. Clutch free taker.

Graham O'Sullivan, Jarlath Og Burns, Paul Conroy, Damien Comer unlucky to miss out.

FOTY: Clifford.

If Kerry go on and dominate for the next 4-5 years., will there be calls for Kerry to be split into 2 ? like when Dublin dominated and there was calls to have a North and South Dublin team to stop the domination...

I missed one point out. He scored 8 , 3 of 4 first half points had been accredited to marks on the commentary I was listening to. Maybe the commentary team have been trolling. I'll watch back, if it's only two points from marks, I'll acknowledge it for ya.

He was right.fellas buying soft frees by grabbing fellas.

Tyrone will be back with peters boys.

I think Galway fans would have expected more from their scoring forwards. Walsh turned up but I think Heany was the only other forward to score, weighing in with a point.

Talk about trying to set the narrative!

Another one might be, the much vaunted galway forwards were shown up to be a one man show. And that galway were very much in it until the pressure came on and they started kicking daft wides down the home straight. Furthermore their manager's decision not to build more of a squad over the year proved to be a bad one, while his decision to effectively take comer out of the game didnt help the team. Furthermore the famed galway final mentality abandoned them whem they needed it.

Now you could go down the route of comparing walsh's last kick with cliffords last kick, and saying he bottled it etc etc, but that wouldnt be for me, personally.

That was a good match Galway really put it up to Kerry who looked edgy first half about 4/5 careless wides. Second half Kerry outscored Galway 13 to 8. Kerry fans looked very worried for large parts of the match.

Even though Galway lost McDaid my pick for MOTM.

Or the double fair shoulder that got Galway a free around the same time

In Dublin's prime they had match winners all over their forward line. Flynn, Kilkenny and Connolly were the half forward line never mind the inside assassins. I don't see this Kerry team anywhere near as good up front as that team. Clifford is some talent and O Se to a much lesser extent. Outside of that their workmanlike but lacking real stardust. For Kerry's sake Clifford better remain injury free for the next 5 years.