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fuzzman club football must be your scene if you dont know mark bradley

Nor buy a programme when he goes to the games.

In fairness to Fuzz I think he resides in Dublin and has done for quite a few years so he can be excused for not knowing too much about Bradley. However, anyone following club football in Tyrone and specifically Div 1 would know all about him - very good player but small which may come against him as we have quite a few nippy, small accurate inside men but we cant play a team full of them...

On the Morgan issue - no one can deny he is a top keeper but he is not a top free kicker. If he was a forward he would be removed from frees after 2 or max 3 misses so why do we persist in him taking frees especially as they are always 40+ yards out and you must be playing with confidence to strike them over on a consistent basis. I would even go so far as to say it is possibly affecting his overall game. I don't think he should be put under that added pressure of taking frees unless they are 55+ out. Let the others take responsibility and if they don't have the capacity to make the distance then play it short and work a score from there. Let Morgan stick to the position he is best at and don't apply any more pressure on him.

Fair point about Morgan - seems that Harte has had a lot of faith in him as free taker...pressure would be serious and is bound to be effecting his game...hope he breaks thru it...seems like a good lad too

Usual over the top reaction to tyrones tactics. It wasn't a great game but it was still very interesting. I'm sensing a lot of fear for Dublin fans. They were used to stuffing teams in recent years and think counties like tyrone should lie down to their full time athletes. Last year they were the first ever county to crowned all Ireland champions in March April time but it's gone a bit wrong since then.

Would people rather pay in to watch dublin win a non event by 15 points?

Tyrone did get men behind the ball last night but you'd swear in the media and from some on here that they stayed there all night. Tyrone scored 12 times kicked 12 wides a lot of them very scoreable, kicked 5 into the keepers hands and missed a great goal chance. That's 30 good scoring opportunities which is a lot against a top team.

If we can improve our efficiency anything is possible. We dominated that game last night and have only been playing that way for 3 games. A bit of tweaking on the offensive side over the next few months and we'll give any one a game. The tactics suit the type of players we have and the players are showing a lot of heart.

I don't mind the abuse. It's when people aren't talking about tyrone that we need to be worried. For some reason we seem to be up there as the most hated gaa county in Ireland. It'll be some craic with rte if we start getting competitive again.

100% agree - if half the wides had dropped and we'd won by 5 or 6 then you would have tons ay that the headlines would have been more focused on Jim Gavin rather than Tyrone

Sorry I mean footballer and it was from yesteryear before the 90s
I read it from a website so I presume its accurate but who knows for sure
It was a very high score of 4-11

Matt Connor

way back in the day, boys used to call him Matt Lethal...and he was...

Matt Connor's overall scoring record at intercounty is just jaw-dropping stuff especially given how short his career was  - 38 goals and 383 points and he was only 24/25 when he had his car accident.

Sorry I mean footballer and it was from yesteryear before the 90s
I read it from a website so I presume its accurate but who knows for sure
It was a very high score of 4-11

Matt Connor

[given that Sponsorship could be withdrawn]

Never has a post game been so crucial or interesting for a county.

If no one talks after Dublin game is MH position in doubt given that Sponsorship could be withdrawn?

Which sponsor?

EDIT: Just seen this. http://gaeliclife.com/2015/03/tyrones-rte-stand-off-set-to-continue/
Would seem strange that McAleer & Rushe were not aware of Mickeys stance when signing up. Or were they told something else in private?
Given their business I had assumed they were primarily sponsoring the team to support the County rather than for the the advertising.
With sponsors like KerryGold, Arnotts, Supermacs, Rocwell, Hunky Dorys it is about getting the brand recognition. I would have bought a bag of Hunky Dorys and a bottle of Rocwell ahead of a bag of Tayto and a bottle of Tipperary Sping water.
No one watching TSG thinks "I must get them boys to build me a hotel"

A fairly significant package from McAleer and Rushe and a serious intent to continue support over the next few years - all agreed in october last year with the caveat that TYRONE COMMUNICATED with ALL media...THAT meant "anyone or someone" speaking to RTE - not Harte - and it was agreed by the county board that all would be ok....also quoted in the irish news about 6 weeks ago as the same

Tyrone will give the dubs their fill of it this Saturday. Kerry and done gal have shown up a soft centre.  I'd say gavin is a worried man.

eh?

A potted history on county colours on the GAA website.

http://www.gaa.ie/about-the-gaa/provinces-and-counties/about-county/county-colours/

The real reason why Mayo sport the bould Green and Red....

"Colonel Maurice Blake of Towerhill was a landlord in South Mayo, and patron of his local football team, Carnacon. When Carnacon played Belcarra in 1887, Colonel Blake saw the chance to make a political point – Blake was a Catholic, and Belcarra were sponsored by a local Protestant, Unionist, family, the Brownes. In the light of this, Colonel Blake insisted that Carnacon line out in strips that featured Green above Red, in reference to Dr Croke's fear, expressed his famous letter to Michael Cusack, that if the Irish did not stand up to express their nationality, we might all just as well "clap hands for joy at the sight of the Union Jack, and place 'England's bloody red' exultantly above the green."

http://spailpin.blogspot.co.uk/2006/02/green-above-red.html

What a deadly wee story....fair play

[This is the first year that there is a consistent s & c coach working on a structured program and actually working with the players]

This is the first year that there is a consistent s & c coach working on a structured program and actually working with the players. There have been coaches who have come in but not on an ongoing basis. Mc closkey was a fitness coach who worked solely on running. No one is saying that the players don't so programs but it has only been on an ad hoc basis with no specific indepth program drawn up.

I disagree here - i know a few of the cross players very well and they inform me that Mike Mc Gurn was involved with them individually and consistently a few years back.  I also remember reading an article that he put in the paper about how cross do things differently and they were ahead of the chasing pack because of this.  Someone of the exertise of Mc Gurn doesnt do ad hoc.  He is professional in his discipline hence the reason he has been with so many county teams in the past and present..

Tony McEntee made the claim directly to the conference - maybe using it to highlight his view of skills over strength

I seem to recall Breheny, taking a break from bemoaning the emptiness of Croke Park on big rugby days in D4, saying that Tyrone have never had an outside manager. In football.

John Donnelly managed Tyrone in the 90's.
Fermanagh man

John Donnelly played for Trillick long enough to be considered a Tyrone man, the same way that Malachy O'Rourke's residency in the Clogher Valley will make him one of our own when his time comes.

They might not be able to build a stadium on the ashes of Casement but by f**k can they run a coaching conference.
Great day in Cookstown on Saturday...Donie Buckley and John Morrison would be the standout coaching sessions, with John Morrison having the edge..
300 delegates attended (i think there was another event run by Antrim on the same day....)

A black hole.

Macosquin?

Moygashel

Joe Brolly

Calling Ham sandwiches "Hang" Sangers
Joe Brolly
County Boards
International Rules...or at least the current rule book for the code
Gaagle tracksuit bottoms
Joe Brolly

[Kerry]

The first of this years championships gets underway in the next couple of weeks, here is my four picks for the provincials and my outright winner,
Dublin
Kerry
Armagh
Roscommon
Champs Dublin.

Cork have 8 or 9 of the team that destroyed Kerry in Tralee last year available again..and will, correctly, be big favourites to beat Kerry in Cork.

Was a 4 point defeat last year. Much changed Kerry team now with a pick from 2013 Munster minor and last September All Ireland winning teams. Mayo the same won minor AI 2013 and provincial title last year both will be short odds to win this years U21 All Ireland.

Heres hoping Tyrone sort themselves out this year at u-21, should have as good a chance as anyone.

Tyrone should make an impact in Ulster, but I can't see beyond Dublin for the title.

Some amazing players - esp upfront...and they play just like the Senior fellas...some team

Tyro....