All Ireland Gaelic Football Final 2014 Kerry v Donegal

[armaghniac]

If the game pans out like that it's 50/50!! I have visions of Donaghy rising for balls only to land surrounded by 4/5 men. Possibly something similar for Murphy!

[seafoid]

Kerry won 4 all Irelands in the last 10 years say- in 04, 06, 07 and 09

they beat Mayo twice and Cork twice. They didn't beat Tyrone despite a few goes.

Mayo and Cork have the worst records in all Ireland finals among teams that have appeared in more than 10.
Mayo have won 3 out of 14 and Cork 7 out of 23. Cork are surprisingly shite despite recent success.

(If Mayo could win a few over the next while they could even be better than cork over 23 finals)
A lot Of Kerry's thing is frightening counties in CP and I don't think they can do that with Donegal.   

[From the Bunker]

Kerry won 4 all Irelands in the last 10 years say- in 04, 06, 07 and 09

they beat Mayo twice and Cork twice. They didn't beat Tyrone despite a few goes.

Mayo and Cork have the worst records in all Ireland finals among teams that have appeared in more than 10.
Mayo have won 3 out of 14 and Cork 7 out of 23. Cork are surprisingly shite despite recent success.

(If Mayo could win a few over the next while they could even be better than cork over 23 finals)
A lot Of Kerry's thing is frightening counties in CP and I don't think they can do that with Donegal.

Kerry have not beaten a Ulster or Leinster County in an AI final since 1986!

[Mike Sheehy]

Kerry won 4 all Irelands in the last 10 years say- in 04, 06, 07 and 09

they beat Mayo twice and Cork twice. They didn't beat Tyrone despite a few goes.

Mayo and Cork have the worst records in all Ireland finals among teams that have appeared in more than 10.
Mayo have won 3 out of 14 and Cork 7 out of 23. Cork are surprisingly shite despite recent success.

(If Mayo could win a few over the next while they could even be better than cork over 23 finals)
A lot Of Kerry's thing is frightening counties in CP and I don't think they can do that with Donegal.

Galway are especially prone to shiteing the togs against us.

[Asal Mor]

Indeed they are. Down and Tyrone are too, but they have a different way of showing it. They take the shite out of their togs and smear it on the Kerry lad's faces.

[Captain Obvious]

Indeed they are. Down and Tyrone are too, but they have a different way of showing it. They take the shite out of their togs and smear it on the Kerry lad's faces.

Are they Influenced by watching two girls and one cup?

[Ciarrai_thuaidh]

Indeed they are. Down and Tyrone are too, but they have a different way of showing it. They take the shite out of their togs and smear it on the Kerry lad's faces.

Eh..great comeback...

[seafoid]

Kerry won 4 all Irelands in the last 10 years say- in 04, 06, 07 and 09

they beat Mayo twice and Cork twice. They didn't beat Tyrone despite a few goes.

Mayo and Cork have the worst records in all Ireland finals among teams that have appeared in more than 10.
Mayo have won 3 out of 14 and Cork 7 out of 23. Cork are surprisingly shite despite recent success.

(If Mayo could win a few over the next while they could even be better than cork over 23 finals)
A lot Of Kerry's thing is frightening counties in CP and I don't think they can do that with Donegal.

Galway are especially prone to shiteing the togs against us.

Not if you look at the stats for all Irelands

Galway won in 38, 64 and 65
Kerry won in 40,41,59 and 00

Kerry are not good in finals against momentum teams like Down, Offaly and Tyrone .  Donegal may be similar.

[AZOffaly]

Lads, Kerry get to loads of All Ireland Finals. It's hardly surprising the lose a fair few too. You tend to meet good teams in All Ireland Finals, funny that.

[Hardy]

They've lost 21 of them. Dreadful record. Loads of counties have never lost one.

[AZOffaly]

Brutal. They should be ashamed of themselves. I think we've only lost 2.

[seafoid]

Lads, Kerry get to loads of All Ireland Finals. It's hardly surprising the lose a fair few too. You tend to meet good teams in All Ireland Finals, funny that.

It's interesting to see who they lose to. They can beat Dublin, Mayo , Cork and Roscommon fairly consistently but for the rest it's not far off 50-50 or less  . 

[Keane]

lolsamplesize in most cases to be fair

[AZOffaly]

For completeness, Kerry's record in All Ireland Finals

v Down w0 l2 0%
v Tyrone w1 l2 33%
v Offaly w2 l2 50%
v Armagh w1 l1 50%
v Cavan w1 l1 50%
v Louth w1 l1* 50%
v Galway w4 l3 57%
v Kildare w 3 l2 60%
v Dublin w8 l4 66%
v Meath w2 l1 66%
v Wexford w2 l1 66%
v Roscommon w3 l1 75%
v London w 1 l0 100%
v Monaghan w1 l0 100%
v Mayo w4 l0 100%
v Cork w2 l0 100%

Some litany of achievement in fairness.

[Mike Sheehy]

We win some, we lose some. At the end of the day nothing beats looking forward to watching you team playing in Croke park on All-Ireland final day. I've been lucky enough to experience it 18 times winning 12 of them. So you lads can begrudge and snipe away with ye're comparisons,  we'll just get on with enjoying the rest of the build up