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mannion geaney and mcbrearty for me. mark bradley is decent but cant be mentioned in that bracket yet. hes not ruthless enough to be a top notch inside forward. mcmanus murphy mcbrearty mcnialis ahead of him in ulster. tyrone have more to worry about up front than mark bradley. personally id put mattie donnelly at 14 and use bradley off him. but it will be a big ask for the mickey taker to take a leap of faith and do something positive.

lets be rational here. tyrone will win ulster playing ultra conservatively as only maybe donegal have enough firepower fromlongrange to foil the master and his wee conservative crew.thats as good as it gets. now realistically thats a good season with a 47th mckenna in a row to boot. so suck it up and get on with it shite football or not.

the lights have been on consistenty at garvaghey/waco over the winter too but not sure if anyones at home.

id rather contact my club rep after the financial report from the county treasurer but the breakdown of the figures is never detailed maybe we dont need to know this?
im sure the 100k from the good old usa recently collected was retrieved on the promise that  most of it goes on the childer of tyrone on coaching on developing the game in the golden plains of augher ardboe and aghyaran. somebody must of had a percentage breakdown of this when they presented it to the sons of tyrone ensconsed in trump land or is it a total faith thing.
we were sold the story that dublin kerry mayo and even donegal spend more on their senior county team after our annihilation by dublin. what might have been more pertinent was to compare what these counties spend on coaching their kids.
garvaghey county team as this thread title suggests is the only thing that matters in our county. clubs kids grassroot gaa if you like dont matter no more(the clubs develop and contribute more to the kids than garvaghey). somebody made the point that they both need each other to survive. the grassroot in this county survived through many dark days politically economically and culturally over the years and there was no garvaghey or all irelands. i think we know which one needs to be developed as the other has been polished repeatedly and it still looks like a ....

could anyone roughly suggest  how much of club tyrone finance goes to the coaching and development of underage players in tyrone. id like to compare that to the preparation of the county senior team and its facilitators. has anyone ever seen these figures. would the mickeytaker for example get more spondoolicks than the kids of tyrone? no fabrication please.

look i really think all this talk of a ballygawley cartel is really over the top. if we had a training centre in garvaghey minus a kitchen bought at an exorbitant price a ballygawley sponsor with tyrone fabrication you couldnt make it up in the title then maybe just maybe thered be a case to answer.

lets be honest here it dosent matter who the captain is as he wont be doing a pile. aidan mccrory gets too much personal abuse definitely. mickey will want someone who wont talk to rte. so maybe being close to him mccrory fits the bill. to me mattie donnelly is the natural leader of the team has captained his club to a county title no brainer. colm cavnagh wont be picked due to big seans last sprint to rte and him making a mockery of the players dont want to talk nonesense.

the problem is colm cavnagh lacks pace and cant pass the ball like cian o sullivan. i do like the idea of more than one forward though that might cause the hoss a problem with taking away one of his 13 defenders. the three best teams in the country dublin mayo and slaughtneil are built on defenders who can defend their own square who have pace to get themselves out of trouble if cornered and can make a bloody tackle. now if the mickey taker could get away from donegal 2012 set up and get someone to communicate to the players that they are capable of defending on their own we might move forward. id get caroline currid back in as she appeared to work mircales with the team in 2008. at least she can communicate.
it will be a major challenge for the same set up after the physical battering and pyschological damage dublin have inflicted. many of the tyrone players will look at the same tired old set up again this year and think why bother.

so tyrone spend 7.5 million and rising and peter donnelly has to rent a gym in east tyrone as garvaghey isnt fit for purpose. waco

slaughtneil great team deserved winners but omagh had their chances. crazy shot selections and conceeding stupid frees didnt help the cause either.

lads were nearly at the 8 weeks have passed point since tyrone football was obliterated in croker. id say the irish news will see the return of the mickey taker this week in some form or other (excuses at the ready and contract in hand) and he might even reveal plan B. id say it will look very similar to how omagh set up this year. watch this space.

slaughtneil omagh will be a kick of the ball just like last time. slaughtneil had to be pumped and primed for kilcoo last week hurling this week omagh didnt have to get out of first gear v errigal they will be fresher.. killyclogher were very poor last year against slaughtneil when faced with the maroon wall, omagh have smarter footballers playing against the defensive screen than the bluemen. omagh are physically very strong and whilst they may lack legs in the middle they have enough pace elsewhere to deal with the run they also have a stonger bench than 2014. slaughtneil will be worried.

some speculation this week re all things tyrone. has the hoss actually gone. if he hasnt the irish news is  full of bull. peter donnelly it goes on. wheres the mickey taker in all this hiding in the bunker. we are a laughing stock off the pitch as well as on it

so it was a straight choice its either the players or the system that was at fault. and with the departure of devlin it seems the system is the culprit. get ready to be dazzled

BE REALL AND ENGAGE MY BRAIN. is that an oxymoron?