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They nearly got caught by a 14 man Kildare team running on fumes too. Not great form.

First half was a great game of football. Neither team played with a sweeper and it was real man on man, forward v defender. Some lovely scores by both teams.

Never seen anything like the red card before. He actually pushed the ref twice!!! It was only the second one that was caught by the tv cameras.

At the very a least 6 month suspension. The amount of people defending him/ claiming it's one of those things is incredible. He's not the first player in a minor or U21 game to be sent off in croke park and he won't be the last. You can't react like that and the GAA need to hand out appropriate punishment.

In the rule book it states that minor interference includes pushing or shoving which is only a 12 week ban, possibly 24 week with two pushes. If there was a strike he will be in a lot more trouble. The level of his rage is still hard to get my head around.

Watching the pre match chat back, the Mayo manager Sloan when asked did he have a plan for the Kildare full forward line stated he was only worried about his own team's performance. Kildare's full forward line scored 1-14 all but 3 from play. Doesn't reflect well.

Is he a brother of Barry Solan who was with Jason Ryan here?

Seems to be a lot of serious young footballers coming out of Kildare.
They should surely be able to assemble a team to at least begin challenging the Dubs in Leinster over the next few years?
They have been beating them regularly at minor over the last while.

We have been very competitive with them in underage for nearly 10 years on a head to head basis but Dublin were able to go on and win All Irelands which we weren't until now. There is a huge gap to close but this group will have to believe they can and do whatever they can to do so.

He pushed the ref while the camera was on Solan, stupid act he'll get a lengthy ban

Won't be good for his development, he looked decent good size and engine.

Kildare don't win All-Ireland's so absolutely brilliant for the lads and the county. Amazing achievement and what a journey for those lads, a great end to a rollercoaster summer of football for Kildare's inter county teams.

Who would you bring straight into the senior panel, Dinny?

O'Neill, Giollain, Dempsey and Hyland are already there. I like Barret and McLoughlin who's been carrying an injury throughout. Masterson is a shoe in as O'Neill and Sweeney are club mates. Jack Robinson who opted out of this group to go travelling, he was pick of these as a minor could be another.

I'd give O'Neill another year in the u20's unless Donnellan loses his form/confidence. O'Neill has nearly everything but he is not 19 until December and Donnellan is a better shotstopper still. Serious prospect though.
Mark Barrett is underage again next year too so I'd let him develop a bit further but Mark Dempsey will be a welcome addition to the full back line, should free up David Hyland to go out to the half back line possibly.
Masterson will probably go in ahead of Moolick but it will need Feely to play more defensively as Masterson is fairly attack minded.
Tony Archibald and Paddy Woodgate deserve a call up too. Archibald has some engine and has done well at club level for Celbridge. Woodgate was on the senior panel in 2017 and his performances improved greatly through the championship. Nash might be a bit unlucky if he doesn't get called up but with Niall Kelly and Chris Healy being similar it will be hard to get in.
McLoughlin played O'Byrne cup against Louth in terrible conditions in January and didn't get into the game but he will get another chance.

Hopefully the players all perform for their clubs in the championship and keep improving. Today was a good day.

Mayo folk beside me said he struck the referee before he got Darragh Ryan by the neck. I think it happened while it cut to Solan reacted. If it is the case he did it twice he should be looking at a lot more than 3 months. I'm not sure if the first one was a punch.

[He will win plenty of senior All Ireland's]

He's too slow for Aussie rules I think. He will win plenty of senior All Ireland's and i would say he could end up being the first pro Gaelic footballer. Made the right call to stay here imo.

Is he moving up to Dublin?

It's hard to believe someone could lose it that badly, he flipped completely.

It was a clear Kildare free kick before he lost the plot too, complete irrational rage.

Yep read that somewhere earlier
They have th'oul pedigree alright.
Jack O'C to replace Fitzmaurice?
Kildare will be happy with their Summer (up to half time today) especially after the Carlow result.

Judging by the abuse he took from the Kerry supporters after their u20 defeat there is very little chance of Jack getting it I reckon. Peter Keane, Pat O'Shea and possibly Liam Kearns would be the most likely candidates. Donie Buckley has to be part of the backroom whoever gets it.

We are back in division 2. The problem is that the ceiling of our aspirations is to get back to division 1 and make the super 8s again.

https://twitter.com/KildareNatSport/status/1025852031150510080

Cian O'Neill was very non committal when asked about his future after the game today. It is the end of his 3 year term now and he said he will discuss things with his wife Tammy, the players and the county board before a decision is made regarding next year.

We will have to wait and see.

[McAnespie]

I was impressed with Monaghans winning of the 50/50 balls. Very hard to stop passion. Over all they were more cohesive in their play. Galway hit some shocking wides maybe down to pressure being applied. I could watch Beggan,McManus,McAnespie and a few others on that Monaghan team all day. Great plsyers.

Not much flash to him but he gets plenty done.

Anytime I've watched Kildare I always think there's something there, plenty of potential.

New management next year and some squad reinforcements to come in. No 1st teamers at obvious retirement age yet either so hopefully we can have a good team next year.

New management?

O'Neill's term is up and enough people are 100% sure (I'm not fully convinced myself) he is gone to Munster rugby for me to guess he is gone.

Tommy Callaghan reported that O'Neill has completely dismissed that link.

I didn't know that. It will be interesting to see if he commits to another term. He probably deserves it but has to improve in some areas.

Anytime I've watched Kildare I always think there's something there, plenty of potential.

New management next year and some squad reinforcements to come in. No 1st teamers at obvious retirement age yet either so hopefully we can have a good team next year.

New management?

O'Neill's term is up and enough people are 100% sure (I'm not fully convinced myself) he is gone to Munster rugby for me to guess he is gone.