The 2025 All Ireland Senior Football Championship (Sam Maguire Cup)

Remarkable the amount of times the camera cut to McGuinness on sideline today. Can't remember any manager getting as much coverage during a game.

You say nobody in Kerry underestimated Donegal but at the same time a spectacular Kerry win was no surprise.. Seems a bit of a contradiction. I think most people thought it would be a close game. I picked Kerry but didn’t expect the margin to be as wide as it was.

I won’t capitalise numbers like you did but that’s Kerry’s 39th title which is amazing, Donegal have just the 2. So there’s no need to come on here and have a go at Donegal fans afterwards. None of the Donegal people I know were overly confident. Just enjoy the win. Well deserved from a fantastic side.

He kicked a lot of bad wides on the day. I dont remember Mick Fitzsimons doing anything major on him. He kicked 5 from play v Dublin the previous year and had a great game, would have done the same that year had he his shooting boots on.

McGuinness is a little bit overrated I agree but winning 1 All Ireland compared to Jacks 5 isn't comparing like for like.

2012 was the most sensational All Ireland win of my lifetime given no one would even consider Donegal as contenders for either Ulster or All Ireland Titles prior to his first stint in the weeks before his first appointment.

Winning an All Ireland with Donegal is much harder than it is to win one with a Kerry or Dublin.

If you were to compare 2 years of McGuinness in whatever 6 he's had with Donegal it would be much more impressive with a similar sized county like Kildare who Jack managed for 2 seasons.

Its 1-1 in championship match ups between them anyway!

’calm down’ I couldn’t be more calmer tonight enjoying a few pints after a good win today 🍺😁

Good on you. Having a glass of vino myself.

he kept him quiet , he kept him out of the game thats all a defender has to do , i regard brendan mccole as the best full back in the country , but had a bad first half an hour today and conceded 7 off clifford , i felt before the game that jim should have put both roarty and mccole on him but he opted for mccole on clifford and roarty on sean o shea and went zonal after that which was a bad idea because one of the players that was tracked back was caolan moore , who which meant a lot of free time for gavin white .

i think its between white and joe o'connor for man of the match both players had that much impact

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Jayus. I think you’re right. Donegal were way off rallied a bit but never got momentum. Was that because of Kerry, the occasion, Donegal sideline setting team up incorrectly? It was the strangest AI football final for a long time.

Dont worry Brolly will twist it around next week to say it worked out as he predicted.

Kerry way too good for Donegal 1st half, or 1st half of first half. Kerry were getting their own kick outs off easily while Donegal struggled with theirs so that had them in the ascendency. Then Kerry’s patience in attack and willingness to move backwards and reset meant Donegal hadn’t a chance to play to their strengths. Even the odd time they did break Kerry had enough men back to make them recycle so their defensive set up was just too good/smart. Can’t really go man to man on Kerry though because they’ll isolate Clifford and he’ll do the rest, I imagine Donegal were expecting a tight first half and Kerry went for it. I thought when they did get possession in the first half and start of second Donegal were fine going forward but were too far behind unless they could get some dominance on the Kerry kick out to follow up a score with another and another. I’d imagine Donegal will feel they got it wrong not starting McFadden or McGee to push harder on 1st half kick outs. They also will feel that they got things wrong they needed to fix, O’Connor match up on Kerry kick outs, openness to runners with the ball from the wing. Thought they got a handle on those to an extent but there was nothing in game that Donegal started with that Kerry needed to figure out.

A lot of thinking for every team apart from Kerry now to come up with a plan that can beat them but I think the key will be dominating possession of the ball.

In terms of rules the biggest weakness in the game for me is that against good players it is too difficult to get the ball back, once a team gets set and move the ball back near to halfway but in opposition half, like Kerry were doing today, chasing the ball is asking for trouble.

When the ref is giving you sympathy frees in the first half then you know you are shagged.

Anyway well done to Kerry, a very special team.

Soccer style managers are new enough outside of that sport. It was often a committee of selectors and coaches in other sports. I know there are exceptions but I couldn't name a hurling manager pre Farrell or football before Heffernan and it's really only the 90's that the identity of the managers became an essential part of following GAA.

You've basically proven my point. He scored 9 points today - all from play!! And most people expect him not to get motm. If I remember the tyrone game he kept them in it in normal time but couldn't play extra time through injury. Kerry fans are notoriously demanding.

That con comment was made light heartedly, he's a class footballer. But if con, Shane Walsh or rian o Neill got 9 from play in an all Ireland final, do you think they wouldn't get MOTM?