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

It's fine to express an opinion and get some wrong. Like I understand why everyone went for Cork last week but I am pretty shocked how so many went for Donegal in what for me was a 60/40 for Kerry.

Some do get it wrong far too often though and when it comes to edgelords like Brolly just say whatever with no basis fully aware that their click bait will be rewarded with retweets year after year because of who they are.

Think a lot of today has to come down to McGuinness. It was obvious the day we lost to Donegal that Murphy was a weak link on kick outs, we got a few away in the first half that day when we were under the kosh. Murphy was continually caught on the Kerry kickouts in the first half. McGuinness did nothing about it, should have been help from his half forward. Kerry had a massive lead before they got to grips.

Thought McCole was outstanding today and Clifford still finished with 9 points, how are you meant to stop that?

Gavin White for MOTM for me. Paudi next followed by Joe O'Connor

There was signs when White went storming up the pitch on the first play that Kerry meant business.

The manner of the Armagh defeat last year probably hit them hard. Not just for losing to the most surprising All Ireland winners in the last decade but the sense that the Minor promise was in danger of slipping away.

Any sense of complacency was clearly addressed going into 2025.

I'm not sure of Donegal's age profile I'll admit but I would wonder has JimM got to Donegal too late to repeat the trick of 2012.

They were in the Minor Final of 2014 v Kerry which I thought might act as a spur given how they lost both finals that day and had 1 or 2 strong years after that at Minor also. It feels that they were a little wasted in the years between.

Maybe Donegal would have been better all round if he returned back in 2020.

”a soft final”

Ah jaysus Francie, you can’t be serious. I remember in the past that certain AIs won by Kerry were questioned because they hadn’t beaten a top Ulster county on the way. Now they mow the grass of three of them in three consecutive games and somehow it’s a “soft” AI…..

And yet there was a lot of talk beforehand of all the big men Donegal had around the field. I'd like to see the height and weight stats for both sides.

I remember some Kerry trainer saying a few years back that they always worked on getting power and strength into the legs of kerry players. If they saw opposition players with thinner legs in the warm up before games they knew they had them.

I was thinking myself if say Dylan Geaney or Oisim Gallen on the other side kicked 9 from play and win a free for another 2, they are getting MOM. It was a spectacular contribution for a lad that spent most of the game in a depot role.

The Sean Cavanagh stuff that time was ridiculous over that pull down. He completely lost it about that.

Kerry a good bit better than the rest at present the seeds of underage success have shown this decade. Two all irelands is a good return. Ulster teams are doing OK, Armagh probably the best of them although donegal beat them this year. Tyrone derry all really rebuilding. Dublin mayo in transition. Galway probably should be doing better. Meath a second tier team as is monaghan roscommon.

He's quite unpleasant. I remember him on a youtube pod with Declan Bonnar and James mccarten a few years back. When all 3 were introduced as former all ireland winners Brolly interrupted and said 'don't forget to add James mcCarten first Down manager to lose an all ireland'

Hes an obnoxious little ****.

I will call it as I see it.

Donegal or Kerry? Nobody could call it with any conviction coming into the game. If they said it, it was bravado more than anything scientific.

Donegal didn’t offer the challenge they normally do. I said this at halftime if you check. Too casual and half an hour late into first contact. Very unlike them.

I said if they didn’t mount a challenge it would be a 10 or 12 point defeat.

Why, because Kerry will hurt you if you give them a soft environment like that.

Enjoy your evening.

Not really distorted in the sense that they are harder to score than ones.