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Is Darren McAnespie a brother of Monaghan footballer Ryan McAnespie?

Yeah. Be a bit of a unique one if he ended up making senior in a few years and played against Monaggsn with Ryan still about.

There's only one right answer for the best player to ever play Junior and it's Decky McCrossan from Owen Roes

O'Neill and Dooher.

Thought Tyrone were going to repeat the 2021 All Ireland Minor final again, when they were the better team but kicked it away rather than Meath winning it.

What's the story with rules at different grades? Hard to keep up. Some grades have all the new rules and others don't?

All true. You would imagine that if he is as good as he is meant to be, West Ham are hardly going to tear up the contract if he plays the game

If he plays, what's the worst that West Ham can/will do?

I said it on the other thread but surely Darragh Canavan and McCurry will be better the next day too.
Canavan especially looked like he was off balance ALL the time.

If they can get the spread of scorers going...then who knows.

McCurry is hot and cold at the best of times, probably passed his best. Generally reliable from frees if you take last weekends game out of it. Canavan has skill to burn, but I think he's too small against these bigger well condition teams. When you say he looked off balance, to me he was just getting out-muscled. He's still relatively young so time on his side to bulk up. McElhone to me is the most dangerous option - fast and direct. Was the liveliest forward on the field when he came on against Dublin. I see the temptation in holding him as an impact sub, but its a tough call that.
The problem Tyrone will have is that they don't have those big physical forwards, like Clifford, who can win their own ball, take men on and score off both feet. Matty Donnelly is probably the closest they have to that type of player, but he won't get 6/7 points a game. Not many teams do have that player to be fair, but Kerry have a huge advantage in terms of forwards available to them compared to Tyrone.
The way to limit them, will be to stop the supply - so once again kickouts will be key and possession in the middle 8 area vital. Tyrone have big men in the middle but given how Kerry performed against the Armagh kickouts and Morgan's dip in form, I'd say they will struggle.

If anything, I feel like McCurry has been more consistent than he used to be in his earlier days. Don't think he's past his best either.

Random pointless observation below.

Have we ever had as much northern (northern half of the country) representation in  an All Ireland quarters as this.

You could draw a line from Donegal to Dublin and all counties are in the quarters.

Donegal borders Tyrone - Tyrone borders Monaghan and Armagh - Monaghan borders Meath Armagh and Tyrone - and Meath borders Dublin and Monaghan.

And Tyrone borders Donegal, Monaghan and Armagh.

Here purchase order on the land no different than the Dungiven bypass. Somebody in Foreglen actually lost their house as it was in the line of fire plus Foreglen petrol station. 15/20mile of farmland So i can't see the benefit of blocking this, it will be eventually build. How many if these blockers are due hard unionists?

Are there many who are to lose their homes on the new A5?

Is there an Ethan Rafferty playing for Meath?

The hypocrisy of the whole thing is infuriating when it comes to nuclear weapons. Why is it OK for certain countries to have them and others to not?

2 weeks of rest aren't going to make much difference to Meath or Monaghan.

Disagree. The rest will give both a better chance of winning their All Ireland quarter than if they had three matches in consecutive weekends and then playing a rested opponent.

Neither Meath nor Monaghan are weapons grade. They won't get anywhere near Sam.

I think they'll be very hard stopped. How many teams have ever beaten Dublin and Kerry in the one year? Us in 02 and Tyrone in one of their years? Not too many more I'd say. Neither of those will fear anyone coming through that prelim draw. 

Tyrone in 2005 and 2008.

Tempting fate but can not see defeat today. Cavan are poor and how they beat Mayo is a mystery. Mayo mustn't have turned up at all. If we don't bate Cavan, be better off out of it...

I dunno. Look how poor Cavan were versus Tyrone in Ulster yet the gap was too close for comfort. If they play their best game today it could be a bad day. They have to get a win against Tyrone sooner or later.

Anyone been to see Sinners yet?

Decent film, nothing spectacular but I enjoyed it.

I would put my money on Antrim town, definitely ticks the sh1thole box as a starting point.

Definitely a trend there. Carrickfergus or Bangor will have to get in on the act next.

Surely Grimes should be in there.