The 2023 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Did I mention I thought he got one he didn't deserve? Not sure I did.

So his All Stars are nothing to do with media hype then. Grand.

From what I remember I thought McDaid should have got the MOTM last year. The main reason I could see he did not was because picking a Kerryman was much handier for the post match dinner. Plus even if a Galway man was picked Walsh would be the higher profile man.

I disagree. I think he knew what he was doing in that moment and decided to take him out with his momentum. It was wreckless and he got away with it without punishment. Ref had a poor game it must be said.

In relation to him having a great game, Ryan did ok for most part but he did leave one routine ball bounce over the bar. That was poor. Similar to what Mayo did against Meath in the 1996 final.

Each to their own. Wouldnt fault him on the ball bouncing over. Would have been risky to come for it given how close the Derry player was to it.

Ref might not have been great, but he didnt decide the result either IMO.

I be of the thought that if the ball is coming into the square it's risky and needs to be collected cleanly by the goalkeeper if nobody is calling it. Anyone can get a hand or fist to a ball coming in like that. Some players are better readers of the game and would have seen this scenario coming a mile and this distinguishes the greater and smarter players in my view.

Don’t argue with a better reader of the game 😅

What Cluxton is great at doing is pushing up and acting as the extra man, but not pushing up Kamikaze like the likes of Rafferty with no real plan. Back in 2019 (drawn game) when Dublin were a man down Cluxton was used very intelligently and showed his in game intelligence.

Cluxton picked up Tommy Walsh - and Rock picked up the Kerry keeper - leaving a Kerry man free on the left. So Dublin overloaded the right side of the pitch. Intelligent coaching intelligent play - well drilled players.

I don't think Dublin of 2023 are nowhere near the level of Dublin 2019 either on the sideline or on the field. Yet somehow Dublin are in an All Ireland.

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Something I have not factored in for other counties is many play the Dublin jersey rather than playing their game plan. So there is a fear in the back of their mind. Mayo did this against Dublin in the AI Quarter Final in my view - as Mayo had a lot of young powerful players but the Mayo heads went because of lack of game management. A 10 minute spell in the second their heads went.

Derry did something similar v Kerry the last day. Game management of Derry went out the window taking wild shots. Derry were two points up (deep in the second half) and they only needed two more scores on top of that and the game was over as a contest.

In my view if Mayo/Tyrone/Kildare had the attitude of Monaghan they would have numerous AI's in their pockets/or at least far more competitive. Monaghan play to their maximum are really hard to beat. Monaghan do not show panic or fear. The only thing Monaghan lack is a subs bench.

Galway would have been really in the mix this year as well only for how Walsh was way off form for a few games in succession/looked tired. Added to that Comer going off injured in Galway's last championship game made it even worse for Galway.

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I honestly don't think Kerry/Dublin at the moment can be classed as 'great' teams. Many of the chasing pack I mentioned above will feel they left this one behind them when they had their chance. It is a 'what if' year for many teams.

The hurling winners, Kilkenny or Limerick will not be staying in Dublin for a banquet night. So maybe Man of the Match will be on the pitch and not on the Sunday Game? I don't know what Kerry have in mind for the football, or whether RTE have any say in the matter.

https://www.rte.ie/sport/hurling/2023/0718/1395171-no-capital-stay-for-kilkenny-limerick-on-night-of-final/

😉 they have enough I suppose…between them since 1928. But in recent times they should have had more IMO.

Fair point on Tyrone over the 20 years. But in the last 10 years I feel that Tyrone should have been challenging more and offering more given the players they had. It was partly due to Micky Harte stifling the players - AI SF 2017 v Dublin prime example of this Tyrone played into Dublin's game plan. Harte had no plan B.

Sean Cavanagh criticised Harte during his last few years for not giving the forwards more of a chance to express themselves. It got him in a lot of hot water with some of his fellow countymen. Tyrone did not look like winning Sam at all with Harte in charge etc.

Harte leaves Tyrone in November 2020. Tyrone win Sam in 2021. It against a Mayo team I would argue was a better overall panel on panel than Tyrone.

But now the Tyrone players seemed/seem happy to retire and/or dine on on that one Sam. Sort of reminds me of Dublin 1995.

This is a forum. If he/she decides to ignore your taunting, they are entitled to do so.

Your posts are very confrontational. You never seem to provide any useful insight into anything - just jumping in with challenging comments and asking for evidence. You seem to be putting boards.ie into the same box as a Court of Law; that if someone makes a comment, they have an obligation to provide you with back-up to justify that opinion. Calm down a bit, and maybe see this forum as a means of actually getting some useful information (and maybe providing useful analysis), as opposed to viewing it in a manner that you are looking to get one over on whoever says anything negative towards Kerry.

No chance I'd say with Dublin playing.

Keep an eye on it later next week. Last year and this year it was Friday before hurling tickets went on sale. I think football went on sale around the same time for the last 2 years

Clubs will have their allocation settled by then and it'll be then that they'll go up.

Are you not mixing up separate points I made? What did I originally say? Honestly can't remember. GAA championship very forgetful these days move onto more interesting things pretty fast.