Cliffords' class, evergreen McManus and New York joy - The Sunday Game panel moments of the season

With Dublin's victory of Kerry bringing the curtain down on the 2023 All-Ireland SFC, the Sunday Game panel pick out their personal highlights from the season.

Mick Fitzsimons, James McCarthy and Stephen Cluxton picking up a ninth All-Ireland medal

I was lucky to play six (finals) with these guys along that journey, played with them since 2010. The scenes afterwards, watching them embrace…these are three lads that have given to the Dublin jersey their whole careers.

It felt like (on Sunday) they were given the opportunity to be the centre of attention, even though they probably didn’t want to be. These three lads have left a big, big legacy on the game and that is my moment of the year.

High drama on last day of round-robin All-Ireland series

The whole season felt like one big experiment. We didn’t really know what way the group stages were going to go and they were kind of slow to get started.

In the last round we travelled through the games and we sort of knew how it was going to play out, yet it all came down to four free-kicks. Shane Walsh (Galway v Armagh), John Heslin (Westmeath v Tyrone), Aidan O’Shea (Mayo v Cork) and Kevin Feely for Kildare (versus Roscommon). The drama that day, and the crowds were probably limited enough, and we sort of realised after that how the group stages were working, and we’re still learning about it.

The drama that brought will probably inform some of the discussion the GAA will have in the off-season.

The Clifford brothers playing for Kerry after the passing of their mother

TOS: They played a Munster final after their mother Ellen died on the Saturday, and played so well, who was an unbelievable Kerry supporter. They honoured her that day. Dermot, their dad, is an unbelievable Kerry