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Mickey Harte deserves serious credit for those 3 all-Irelands, we wouldn't have won an all-Ireland without him, I do fear now that we wont win another AI with him in charge!!!

He was afforded the opportunity to work with the same group of players he guided from minor and U21, at some point the successful U21 management have to be given that opportunity.

Are you sure about that? The brand of football they have our u21's playing is awful. Apparently they played Pomeroy seniors during the week and played with 15 men in their own 45 when not in possession of the ball. Do we really want to see the likes of Lee Brennan having to defend on his own 21?

No difference to the way our senior team plays then.

At least our senior team plays with two men up front most of the time. I for one do not want Fergal Logan or Brian Dooher anywhere near the senior team playing this brand of football. We need a man that's going to start playing a more attacking brand of football.

This is not true. In the donegal and mayo games only ronan o neill played close to the opposition goals. Skeet played all over the place and everyone else dropped behind the ball when tyrone did not have possession

Your missing the point, logan and dooher has the 15 men inside their own 45 when not in possession of the ball. Micky Harte hasn't sunk to them depths yet.

My point has nothing to do with logan and dooher. My point is that what you were saying isn't true

Mickey Harte deserves serious credit for those 3 all-Irelands, we wouldn't have won an all-Ireland without him, I do fear now that we wont win another AI with him in charge!!!

He was afforded the opportunity to work with the same group of players he guided from minor and U21, at some point the successful U21 management have to be given that opportunity.

Are you sure about that? The brand of football they have our u21's playing is awful. Apparently they played Pomeroy seniors during the week and played with 15 men in their own 45 when not in possession of the ball. Do we really want to see the likes of Lee Brennan having to defend on his own 21?

No difference to the way our senior team plays then.

At least our senior team plays with two men up front most of the time. I for one do not want Fergal Logan or Brian Dooher anywhere near the senior team playing this brand of football. We need a man that's going to start playing a more attacking brand of football.

This is not true. In the donegal and mayo games only ronan o neill played close to the opposition goals. Skeet played all over the place and everyone else dropped behind the ball when tyrone did not have possession

tyrone were an absolute disgrace against mayo. how any manager could turn a team out to play like that is beyond me. and 2 weeks later he looked for a 2 yr extension! people need to get their heads out of the sand and end this charade of management before football in this county is ruined for decades.

For what its worth i think Harte has done well with this group results wise. Its the people on here who back his every decision whether its right or wrong is what annoys the fcuk outta me. Its almost like Mickey has about 5 accounts on here himself 

[Felt Justy struggled against Mayo and taking him off for Brennan was the correct decisions.]

I see they've named a 26 man McKenna cup squad in the Irish News as below.
Does that mean players like Rory Brennan, Meyler, McShane, McGeary and McNamee are all being rested or left out for some reasons or can you only name 26 for any one game?
Surprised no Mark Bradley there also.

TYRONE McKENNA CUP PANEL
N Morgan (Edendork), M O'Neill (Clonoe), A McCrory (Errigal Ciarán), L Brennan (Trillick), C Clarke (Omagh), T McCann (Killyclogher), P Harte (Errigal Ciarán), R O'Neill (Omagh), N Sludden (Dromore), P McNulty (Dungannon), P Hampsey (Coalisland), D McCurry (Edendork), S Cavanagh (Moy), H Loughran (Moy), J Munroe (Carrickmore), C McAliskey (Clonoe), M Donnelly (Trilllick), C Cavanagh (Moy), C McCarron (Dromore), M Cassidy (Ardboe), D McClure (Clonoe), C McCullagh (Greencastle), R McHugh (Aghyaran), N McKenna (Donaghmore), R McNabb (Dromore), R Mullan (Cookstown).

So omitted from that list is:

Bradley, R Brennan, Fox, McNamee (UUJ?)
Meyler, McShane (St Marys)
McGeary x2 and Burns (Pomeroy)

What's the story with the following players - R Donnelly, C McCann, Mulgrew. Injured?

Any word on the McMahons yet? I think Joe will walk away but Justy should still have something to offer he has the motivation.

Imagine lining out CHB and being taken off during the early stages of an All-Ireland semi-final only to find the FF hurtling down the field to pick up a second booking and get sent off when the game was in the melting pot when he should have been stood up on the penalty spot at the other end of the pitch. I find it hard to blame Cavanagh for getting caught with the booking, the system is atrocious, Justy was one of a few victims of it that day. Hopefully he fancies another shot.

What is Joe's injury?

Felt Justy struggled against Mayo and taking him off for Brennan was the correct decisions.

He definitely has something to offer us though, we really lack a commanding aerial presence at the back.

There's a lot of nonsense written about our system, we probably would have been in two All Ireland finals only for wayward shooting. It suits the players we have and with a bit more composure and tweaking we'll make an AI final yet.

Do you think the system is the reason we haven't made an AI final in the past two years or simply because we weren't good enough?

You have not got one clue !!!!
And how indeed do you feel he struggled ?
Justys job, as always at centre half back is to protect the full back line. Roachford knew this and put Alan Dillon there to use the space Tyrones defensive tactics would allow him. He caused bother because he was a free man. Harte took Justy off and put Brennan on. Roachford then took Dillon off. Advantage Mayo. Mickey got it wrong not Justy
The fact that Tyrone have become so obvious makes it easier for the better teams to plan against them

Whatever way you want to look at it, tactics or not, Justy looked lost in the opening 25 minutes in that game and he came off for Brennan who gave us a bit more in an attacking sense.

Tyrone are obvious, but so are all the other teams. For all the talk about Dublin and the great players they have, they had to completely abandon their all out attacking game because Donegal made bits of it in 2012. Now they play a game very similar to all the rest.

What Tyrone do at the minute is not disimilar to the other big teams.

For such an obvious side, the result could so easily have been different against Mayo and we played the final 10/15 minutes a man down.

The system that Harte introduced in 2015 has brought us back to be very competitve at the top end and an Ulster title the year before, it only needs some small tweaks and players to learn from their mistakes.

Please stop showing us all your stupidity.
Justy looked lost !!!
Such a statement, what do you mean ? Do you think he looked out of his depth ?
Do you think he looked lost because the job he was asked to do was obsolete because Mayo did not kick the ball away against us the way Cavan and Derry did ? (Two games you frequently reference when you talk about how good we are).
The job Rory Brennan was asked to do was totally different to the job Justy was asked to do.
If you had a brain in your head you would know that instead of continually spouting pro Tyrone management S**te on here

You rave on the Connolly Holmes thread about how mentally weak the Mayo lads are to lose big games by a point but you continually tell us how unlucky Tyrone were agaist Kerry in2015 and against Mayo in 2016. You're a walking contradiction

"There's a lot of nonsense written about our system, we probably would have been in two All Ireland finals only for wayward shooting. It suits the players we have and with a bit more composure and tweaking we'll make an AI final yet"
according to you.

[Intermediate]

Intermediate
Kildress - O'Gara/Beggs/Kelly
Eglish      holmes
Dungannon       rouse
Augher         kavanagh
Loughmacrory        howe
Moy         kelly
Derrylaughan
Aghyaran        Mc Ginnity
Moortown - B Hughes
Gortin
Cookstown
Stewartstown
Eskra        slater
Aghaloo
Castlederg         corry
Rock         nugent

Moy is Audi Kelly and I heard Dungannon is Paul Rouse

Senior
Killyclogher  corrigan
Coalisland   mc keever
Clonoe      cassidy
Dromore     Meenagh
Carrickmore     mc Callan
Trillick      Seaney
Galbally      Beattie
Donaghmore      hetherington
Urney            rea
Errigal         canavan
Ardboe        mc guigan
Edendork
Omagh
Greencastle      o kane
Strabane
Pomeroy

Just to get you started

Omagh going in house i believe Lawrence hard act to follow.

Whose name have you heard ?

Wow !!

Have Derrytresk got a manager

Bomber, go on and give it a rest would you. You think the players were wrong, big deal. Do you really care, or do you just not like mayo

Have Carrickmore got a manager for next year or will Conor Gormley continue to do what he normally does

McKindless of Ballinderry is the name I heard for the Carmen job

Aye, i suppose he did really well at Ardboe

Have Carrickmore got a manager for next year or will Conor Gormley continue to do what he normally does

Tyrone 3rd team was out yesterday

Just a small bit insulting I suppose.

Not much happening this time of year then eh ?

Hard to beat civilised rational Rossies

Usual clowns on here crying, season hasn't even begun
Anyone up at garvaghy on Saturday. Seen a few donegal in awe of the setup we have and the structures we have in place. 10 years ahead of them was what was remarked. Kieran Shannon wrote a good piece on it.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/columnists/kieran-shannon/never-standing-still-tyrone-are-preparing-to-kick-on-again-434997.html

Aye we are class aren't we