Darragh Ó Sé: Jim Gavin did a great sales pitch but referees set to be under pressure to make new rules work
What the FRC needed was for teams to misbehave — the rules will be properly tested only when used in competitive games
Darragh Ó Sé on the Galway football team: The 15 men bidding for All-Ireland glory
Galway named an unchanged side for the final against Armagh
Darragh Ó Sé: Galway will not win by much, but they will get over the line against Armagh
The experience of losing a final in 2022 means Pádraic Joyce’s team know all about the regrets of leaving an All-Ireland behind
Darragh Ó Sé: Kerry’s style of play saps their energy. No wonder they looked gassed in extra-time
Jack O’Connor has a lot to ponder over the winter - short kick-outs take too much out of the players and he has to get better at bringing youth through
Darragh Ó Sé: No team is thinking about bonus territory but I still think it will be a Kerry v Galway final
It’s hard to remember a time when the semi-final teams were managed by such big characters as these four
Darragh Ó Sé: No need to cry a river for the departing Dubs - realistically, they won’t fall too far
Darragh Ó Sé: With Dublin gone from the championship, there’s an All-Ireland sitting there waiting for the four teams left to reach out and grab it
Darragh Ó Sé: Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh was interested in everyone and had no ego
I got to know him first in the early 1990s when he was still training country players who were working in Dublin - he never had a bad word to say about anyone
Darragh Ó Sé: Mayo exposed some of Dublin’s flaws but the champions will be better in Croke Park
Dessie Farrell’s team aren’t as far ahead of the pack as people assumed, but they will improve and it’s up to everybody else to keep up
Darragh Ó Sé: Once you put Jim Gavin in charge of something, there’s no sniggering down the back
Whatever you think about the Football Review Committee, the game has got itself into a state and it finally feels like someone is taking the problem seriously
Darragh Ó Sé: Derry look loose, cranky and disorganised - the situation seems to be beyond fixing
Mickey Harte’s players keep making the same silly mistakes and now they’ve lost their discipline into the bargain – I don’t see any way of them rescuing this for an All-Ireland push
Darragh Ó Sé: Changing grades hasn’t worked out - the GAA needs to go back to U-18 and U-21
Too much is being asked of young players too soon and by removing the traditional stepping stones to senior, more and more of them are going to fall through the cracks
Darragh Ó Sé: When you’re on the wrong end of a hammering, it can feel like trying to keep the tide out
Every player has experienced what happened to Monaghan in Killarney last Saturday, the sort of nightmare you can’t wake up from
Darragh Ó Sé: Armagh’s leaders need a better grasp of game situations or killer defeats will persist
Winning is an art and the players are the ones holding the brushes – looking to the sideline for guidance is no way to see out an Ulster final
Darragh Ó Sé: Connacht final win gives Pádraic Joyce the selling power that Kevin McStay is lacking
The momentum Galway picked up with that injury-time Connacht final victory is something Mayo are in dire need of finding over the coming weeks
Darragh Ó Sé: How each county is shaping up as race for Sam Maguire kicks off
All-Ireland SFC: Cork need to seize their moment, Louth will fancy second place in their group while Mayo and Galway will wonder if they might be better off losing the Connacht final