This current Galway outfit must be totally tuned in from the first whistle or they can take an awful pasting against Kerry, writes Ray Silke.

It will be interesting to see if Cork forwards can make any inroads into Donegal quagmire...

Wily Kevin Walsh can rightly take the plaudits for this win, writes Ray Silke.

Galway manager, Kevin Walsh, will be frustrated this morning that a few self-inflicted, late mistakes cost his squad a first Connacht title since 2008, at Pearse Stadium, yesterday.

Three things we learned yesterday.

MY brother Brian was corner back for the Galway minors in 1986 when they beat Cork in the All-Ireland final. Later that afternoon Kerry beat Tyrone in the senior game. Brian is 45 now and in the intervening 28 years Kerry have since failed to defeat an Ulster team in an All-Ireland senior final.

The rough housekeeping first, before the dusting. Galway are only an average side.

It was like the late 1990s in Elvery’s MacHale Park yesterday. Almost a full house, with well over 26,000 in attendance, glorious weather and Mayo and Galway going at it full-tilt for the Nestor Cup.

CONNACHT SFC FINAL:

1 - Cork have a lot to improve on