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

Expected win for Kerry the bookies and their punters had Kerry winning by 4 and as ever they are rarely wrong.

Galway in fairness to them gave it a right good shot 0-16 each with 66 minutes played and just came up short against what was the best team in Ireland this year. Galway forward line talked up but in reality have two top class and consistent forwards one of them produced his best performance of year (Shane Walsh) and the other was marked out of the game (Damien Comer) and in the end Galway management not making the switches to get him more into the game prove costly.

Some had doubts about how much Kerry's defence had really improved because the idea was they weren't fully "tested" but I think today and against Dublin showed the improvement they have made especially with conceding soft goals as they did under the last management. That defensive improvement has been key in winning this All Ireland.

This Kerry team will win another All Ireland or two but I'll be surprised if they dominate. Three different winners in the last three years and I think we'll see a very open championship in the years ahead, Galway reaching this years year and giving a decent account of themselves in the final should give plenty of encouragement for plenty of counties watching on

Preach

Nobody does hyperbole quite like Joe Brolly.

Crap rule and the fact you can catch one at the corner flag and bring it out to the 13 makes it even worse. Geaney made 10m on his yesterday.

Fisted points need to go too. A scourge on the game.

An entertaining game with the better team, or squad, winning. Modern football is a twenty man game and the impact of the respective benches was the deciding factor. Some wonderful scores throughout, with Walsh for Galway and David Clifford for the Kingdom putting in sensational displays. Mention also of Cillian McDaid who had a brilliant match and brilliant year.

Couple of random points - the forward mark is an awful rule. I would love to see it gone. Secondly, for all the talk of Dublin's demise, they were very close. How significant must the absence of Con O'Callaghan in that semi-final feel for them now?

He was a huge loss, Dublin probably win if he plays but I felt this year dublin were being dragged by the older players rather than any brilliant managment set up, they have serious work to do to get back to their old evels.

Yes, instead of rewarding teams for kick passing and offensive play we should reward defenders for swarming around anyone catching a high ball and make it harder for attackers to score, rewarding blanket defensive play even more. 🙄

There is a reason these rules came about in the first place

I would generally agree that the mark rule is a bit meh, but two of Clifford's catches yesterday were excellent given the circumstances. One of them he soared above two men, landed on his arse and probably have been bottled up and conceded a free out had the rule not existed. So in that regard, the catch probably merited a score.

But yeah, Geaney's was ridiculous, and there have been a multitude of instances since it was introduced where a fella caught the ball a couple of inches off the ground and took the subsequent mark. That doesn't make for a great spectacle either.

Yes it has! Unless you'd prefer if Kerry handpassed the ball laterally for 5mins at a time until the Galway defence slip up and Kerry can get a shot away

We were treated to plenty of great kickpassing and fielding yesterday because of it

Bit of context here.

The last time Dublin played Kerry in championship, they drew the first game before winning a close second. This time round they were very unlucky not to draw the semi. Thats a small margin. And they were without a marquee forward on the day, arguably their best player and main goal threat. They are not that far away from their 'old levels'.

Farrell had a good year and Dublin will be a threat next year, they have a good chance of winning it.