National League Final - Kerry v Derry

[Jinxy]

As Paul Galvan is a poor man's Brian Dooher, Tommy Walsh is contender for poor man's Sean Cavanagh... discuss   

[longrunsthefox]

Win was more important than the display, poor game, always thought we were well in control.
Kerry brought on 7 subs, Dara, Moran, Kennelly, Sean O'Sulllivan, Bohane, Quirke, Aiden O'Shea & Sheehan so could be more left in this yet.
3/3 for the Munster counties - does this make Munster the strongest province?

Aye  

[ExiledGael]

Certainly not a good weekend for Ulster. Our teams lost all four of the NFL finals though Graham Canty looked embarrassed almost to lift and celebrate a league title. It's only the league.

[whiskeysteve]

Kerry won that game by dominance in the middle of the field. As Owenbeg said Derry got very stretched at the back towards the end - think we ended that game with about 7 unavailable defenders, McCusker, McGoldrick, Lockhart, Carton, McAlary, O'Kane, and McBride after his yellow. Think Eoin Bradley was excellent today, won nearly everything put into him and got a few important frees. Lynch and Kielt were quiet from play though. Enda Lynn covered a lot of ground and the open spaces well. Concern for this season is the lack of goals and goal chances created, for league finalists you would expect more than 2 goals from 8 games. Contrast that with Kerry scoring 9.

Happy enough though, if nothing else Cassidy has blooded a lot of new players for the coming years. If the midfield gets back to its best and we get over our injuries im confident we can take Monaghan.

[Gaffer]

Win was more important than the display, poor game, always thought we were well in control.
Kerry brought on 7 subs, Dara, Moran, Kennelly, Sean O'Sulllivan, Bohane, Quirke, Aiden O'Shea & Sheehan so could be more left in this yet.
3/3 for the Munster counties - does this make Munster the strongest province?

For the time being !!!

[Mike Sheehy]

As Paul Galvan is a poor man's Brian Dooher, Tommy Walsh is contender for poor man's Sean Cavanagh... discuss

This is your idea of "witty" banter is it ?

[orangeman]

What about the captain's speech ? Saying he'll leave the Irish till later on in the year and that he hopes to be making two more speeches at the end.

That's confidence for you.

[orangeman]

How many were in Croker today ? Would Parnell Park have held them ?

Something over 20,000 was today's attendance.  Nowhere near that number would fit in to Parnell Park.  The venue was the right one.

Listening on the radio, it said that there many who left the stadium after the first match and went home. I know it's fair auld spin for the Cork lads but I can't understand anyone leaving and not watching 2 great sides on show in the division 1 final.
FROM RTE.IE
Kerry regained the Allianz NFL Division 1 title from Derry with an assured performance before 20,545 spectators at GAA Headquarters.

Don't be fooled by the winning margin. Jack O'Connor's side were always in control and you got the sense they could up it a few gears if required. A worrying observation for those counties who would like to see the Kingdom out of the championship equation before the third Sunday in September!

[blanketattack]

Tame enough affair. The two biggest hits were Eoin Bradley on Paddy Bradley and Mike Quirke on the Croke park turf. Celebrations were muted in contrast to the last two finals where Derry and Donegal celebrated as if they had won the All-Ireland final. That's Darragh Ó Sé's 4th league title to add to his 5 All-Irelands. Not a bad old haul and his medal count mightn't be finished yet.

One for the historians, when was the last time a team went through the entire league (div 1) campaign unbeaten?

[thejuice]

Only got to see the last 20 minutes but you wouldnt think there was a title being fought for. Kerry looked comfortable enough.

[mountainboii]

Win was more important than the display, poor game, always thought we were well in control.
Kerry brought on 7 subs, Dara, Moran, Kennelly, Sean O'Sulllivan, Bohane, Quirke, Aiden O'Shea & Sheehan so could be more left in this yet.
3/3 for the Munster counties - does this make Munster the strongest province?

Is that not 8? Did all those guys come on?

[KingLarsson]

I  waz so monkeyd i nver made it down....is it true we lost? and thon rangers hoors won this weekend.................. terrible weekend

[ExiledGael]

Win was more important than the display, poor game, always thought we were well in control.
Kerry brought on 7 subs, Dara, Moran, Kennelly, Sean O'Sulllivan, Bohane, Quirke, Aiden O'Shea & Sheehan so could be more left in this yet.
3/3 for the Munster counties - does this make Munster the strongest province?

Jesus, how many subs are you allowed? Bit of a major oversight this.

[SuperDooperCooper]

Win was more important than the display, poor game, always thought we were well in control.
Kerry brought on 7 subs, Dara, Moran, Kennelly, Sean O'Sulllivan, Bohane, Quirke, Aiden O'Shea & Sheehan so could be more left in this yet.
3/3 for the Munster counties - does this make Munster the strongest province?

Jesus, how many subs are you allowed? Bit of a major oversight this.

Sorry my mistake Kerry only brought on 7 subs.... Quirke should not have been on the list. So full list is Dara, Moran, Kennelly, Sean O'Sulllivan, Bohane, Aiden O'Shea & Sheehan.
Aiden O'Shea came on for only the last kick of the ball.

[Bogball XV]

Certainly not a good weekend for Ulster. Our teams lost all four of the NFL finals though Graham Canty looked embarrassed almost to lift and celebrate a league title. It's only the league.

nonsense, today's two ulster sides looked pretty disinterested, down fielded short a number of players and sure even antrim didn't play the mcgourtys!!

Awful game today imo - there was no edge at all - the croker atmosphere doesn't help, but the league appears to be in terminal decline at this stage.