CORK V KERRY MUNSTER ALL IRELAND SENIOR FINAL

[never kickt a ball]

No word of a puke final last night ? Cork were rotten - like school boys - Donaghy couldn't believe it when there was no goalkeeper in - was his goal one of the most bizarre ever ??

Well done to Kerry by the way.

Both of Donaghy's goals had no goalkeeper in. He couldn't believe his luck - especially in an All-Ireland final. For a big man he has great hands, balance and an assured touch.

[Pietas]

As an All-Ireland final, was it any worse than last year?

Definitely not, last years game was over after 10 minutes. Cork were still in the game yesterday at half time. Once Donaghy scored after 20 seconds the result was never in doubt though.
As someone said earlier Kerry can only beat what is put in front of them and the begrudgers will always accuse them of winning "soft All Irelands". The fact that Kerry are so good is lost on the begrudgers.

Have to agree.  The winning margin was lower and the result was in the mix for longer.

However, it's amazing the number of people who are describing it as 'the worst final in living memory.'

As someone with a strong Mayo bias, I have no difficulty with this!  Infact, was hoping Kerry would tag on a few more scores so they would beat Cork by a greater margin than they beat Mayo last year.

Your last point is also spot on.

[stephenite]

Was there not only 4 points in it at half time last year?

[Kerry Mike]

Crap game, savage result, always great to beat Cork but to stuff them like that yesterday caps a great year for us, you have to be from Kerry to understand, great night in the City West, Sam says hello to all.

Am away for a big fry up and then for a feed of pints and then am going to help the Gardai look for Alan Quirke he has not been seen since the pre match parade !!  

Cheers for all the well wishers, more later...Am geting bored of the number 35 already

[A Quinn Martin Production]

BREAKING NEWS:  Alan Quirke nominated for an All Star...at corner back!!

Have to say congrats to Kerry, clearly the best team in the country at the moment.  "Soft" All Ireland?  Aboslutely not.  You can only beat the opposition and only Monaghan had any clue about how to play Kerry.  One quality Kerry have is the ability to learn from a defeat...rare enough event but no other county does it as well.

As a spectacle...piss poor of course, first half was woeful, not helped by an eccentric refereeing display, all over 30 seconds into the second half.  Quiz question of the future...Who scored two goals in an All Ireland final but never beat the goalkeeper once??

[Croí na hÉireann]

How come none of the commentators noticed that Donaghy's 2nd goal was clearly a square ball? 

Occured to me after the game that this was probably a square ball, had a look later on TSG and it wasn't. Ball was in the air a long time, ball dropped near the edge of the square and Donaghy timed his run well.

Disappointing final I thought, well apart from the performance of the Gooch, what a wizard. When he's on form like that he's unplayable, joy to watch. Galvin made an ejiot of himself again going to ground, he's a big man, if he can give it, he can take it.

KM, keep a lookout for O'Leary there as well. Largely anomyous yesterday, wonder was he told to watch his discipline, whatever the reason he certainly didn't have that edge, could have played himself out of an All-Star. Corks tactics were brutal, they insisted on carrying the ball into the tackle and spilled some possession here. The one option that was working was the high ball into Cussen and they only used this when they ran into dead ends. They need to find a few forwards and a Plan B.

p.s. what were the animals barking at Joanne Cantwell in de Citywest???

[longball]

has the gooch now reached legendary status?

[zoyler]

Worst final I ever saw even worse than last year but not Kerrys fault.

Any chance of open play ruined by a ref who refused to let play run and the worst display in an all AI since Murray in the Kerry/Roscommon final of 1980.  Why did he get the game and why has McEnaney only gotten 2/3 championship games this year?

[marty88]

has the gooch now reached legendary status?

one of the most overated players around imo. One good game this year, all thanks to some dodgy goalkeeping

[johnpower]

has the gooch now reached legendary status?

one of the most overated players around imo. One good game this year, all thanks to some dodgy goalkeeping

So Marty the Gooch is overrated ?

[marty88]

yes. Poor against the dubs, poor against monaghan.

Did nothing last year.

or the year before

Year before that he had a very good year.

Im not sure if its defenders know how to play against him now of if its, as i suspect, he just hasnt been the same since his day died.

[David McKeown]

Marty

He also brought his club to the Club final in which he played what I thought was the best game I have ever seen from anyone.

In relation to the umpires in the minor game, it mentioned in the program yesterday that three were from Longford and one from Dundalk I believe, if anyone would check the program they could confirm this.

[orangeman]

Gooch is a class player - but Maurice Fitz was head and shoulders above him in terms of ability.

[johnpower]

yes. Poor against the dubs, poor against monaghan.

Did nothing last year.

or the year before

Year before that he had a very good year.

Im not sure if its defenders know how to play against him now of if its, as i suspect, he just hasnt been the same since his day died.

Were you watching the Dublin Game ? He kicked some great scores off both feet . As was pointed out he brought his club to the club final . I could go on but then you are probalby only trying to wind people up ?

[blasmere]

Gooch is imo up there with Maurice Fitz & Peter Canavan as the best forwards of the last 20 years