The 2024 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

There was a stat somewhere that Armagh had only one third of possession in the first half, although they had the same score at half time. Armagh took much less time to get a score than Galway. Even by modern standards Galway endlessly played the ball around the 40-45m area.

Every team including Kerry and Dublin play a very similar style so I wouldn't be too critical of any team for their style.

I wonder what simple rules they can introduce to open up the game.

Maybe that the full back line and forward line have to stay within their own half or the 60.

Ideally there should be more space for the forwards to show their skill. At the moment we're just seeing a slow cautious build up with handpassing and then eventually a shot from distance.

Goal chances have become very rare and goals even rarer.

who said they were the best team in the country? Thats fairly impossible to say at the moment anyway.

Was watching some Olympic handball yesterday evening - at one stage the ref raised their hand as a warning for "passive play", I presume if they had continued, it would have been a free the other way but instead the team in possession moved forward and scored.

I don't think the concept would work in football for a few reasons, not least because of the subjective nature of it (I imagine there'd be a lot of whinging about it) but when I heard the term "passive play" I immediately thought that that's what we want to see less of in Gealic Football.

It would but more difficult to implement at all club games

Easy, less handpassing, more kickpassing, more high fielding, speedier attacks and turnovers, more shooting/scoring from distance. Very easy to see the things people want more of. This isn't exhaustive either.

Social Media and Twitter have been a major negative for grumpy lads moaning about Football since the early 10s.

I find there to be a lot of Munster Know-It-alls constantly slating the game.

Its funny though that those that do more often than not proclaim themselves to be Munster Rugby or Liverpool FC Supporters.

I wonder if you pointed out to them that those 2 teams didn't exactly set the world alight winning European trophies would they hold those up to the same standards they do with Football. I wouldn't be banking on it. They played the game as they saw fit and won when it mattered.

FWIW I enjoyed a lot of Football played this year.

The club final was good, as was the League Final, the league overall, the 20s final, the Provincial Finals had their moments and yesterdays final whilst not one for the ages had some exceptional long range scoring and the most unlikely winner in years.

That's not to say there was some instantly forgettable games like Kerry-Derry but there was some decent games that the know it alls gloss over all too easily.

I'd be interested in some of the new rules proposed by the FRC but the constant football is finished have become the most tiresome cliche in all of sport.

Also I'd say with Gaelic Football above every other sport the casual viewer has no appreciation as to why games develop as they do.

People give out but there was no praise of both defences and the long range scoring.

There's always a meltdown if a game isn't like Dublin v Mayo in the 2010s.

At least there was a good analysis by Andy Moran on the game on OTB this morning

stolen from Reddit but I thought this was funny yesterday

I really enjoyed the game, and really enjoyed the style of play. Must be something wrong with me….

and not let them handle it too?