Quote from: Localexpert on September 22, 2019, 10:16:17 AMQuote from: redzone on September 22, 2019, 09:10:38 AMQuote from: Angelo on September 22, 2019, 08:53:04 AMQuote from: Under Lights on September 22, 2019, 08:38:01 AMQuote from: skeog on September 22, 2019, 08:24:57 AM
Omagh have underachieved with a golden age of footballers imo.
Agreed. Where has it all went wrong?
A lot of their main men have suffered badly with injuries. Justy and Joe had their last decade ravaged with injuries. O'Neill had a bad cruciate injury when he was 18/19 and never properly came back from it. Clarke looked like he was going to become a county mainstay for the rest of his career but he was also unable to recover from a cruciate injury.
For the numbers available the town teams like Omagh, Dungannon, Cookstown and Strabane severely underachieve. To be fair the Omagh they have produced a fair few county players in recent years but we had no county lads from Dungannon, Cookstown or Strabane on the county panel last year. Those 3 towns alone could account for around 20% of the nationalist population in Tyrone
Omagh have 2 championships in 6 years since 2014, any club would take that.
For some reason the town teams take more flack from people on this board even though one look at championship roll of honour will show dungannon coalisland omagh and clonoe (coalisland area) in the top 5 so the facts dont back up the claims!
Wouldn't really class coalisland and clonoe as town teams