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Ohare playing for ardboe last night. Hopefully just for a bit of game time

Good to hear, lads not getting competitive games stagnate

I agree on this in theory and like the idea but this is going to be impossible to police - what happens if some other lads now want game time to keep sharp during the starred game sequence - will they get club game time?

Who decides who gets some minutes at club level and who doesn't?
Is it a classified as a non starred game if a county player gets 'game time'?

County squad lads should be allowed to play club football for sure if not playing county regular - it might help prevent players leaving county squads you would imagine...

Frustrating to lose and in those circumstances ane there is plenty to work on - but there was also a lot to like about the performance. Remember where we are coming from after two years of being a bit of a shambles, while also introducing new players and adapting to new rules. It was always going to take a bit of time - and tonight we were up against a far more settled and established setup. Despite all that, Tyrone will know they should have won. Plenty of positives to take and plenty of other things to be worked on, but for sure looked very much like a team on an upward trajectory and with bigger tests to come.

Who are the new players we have introduced?
Every team is adapting to new rules, feeble excuse that...
Armagh hadn't an established team on the pitch. They only started with 6 players from last years all Ireland final but I agree they have a more settled set up

This time last year we lost a semi final to Donegal after ET and look what happened after that

[Shockingly poor how club football is treated within the our County]

No panic on the senior fixtures yet, none at all 😉

Start date is just over 3 weeks away

Shockingly poor how club football is treated within the our County

Shocking in what way? 🤷

Is your answer tongue in cheek?

Derry have 3/4 league games played, Down have certainly 4 played and Armagh will have 3 played - all before Easter.
Don't talk about pre season competitions....most counties have them or the Ulster league as preparation.
Our league is delayed to suit county football which is 2% of the playing population in the county
Now we are told that games on Friday nights are no longer a thing despite the fact they are the one positive to occur in the last number of years at club level

No panic on the senior fixtures yet, none at all 😉

Start date is just over 3 weeks away

Shockingly poor how club football is treated within the our County

Woeful refereeing and I am a Tyrone fan. If this is the prelude to what is going to happen at club level then football will end up chaotic.

The referee didn't have a clue what he was doing when the game got tight and cost Armagh dearly, although I do think Tyrone would have got over the line but not as clear cut as it ended up

Was that free from Canavan, not a 2 pointer. It was outside the arc?

Are this years league fixtures anywhere yet? Can't see them on the website.

Not compiled until senior county championship squad finalised. Then starred games are 'supposedly' easier to work out

Do you not remember the hump several clubs took last year because a few lads opted to leave the county squad in order to get football with their clubs after the fixtures were released

County board will want to avoid that again for certain this year but it is an unavoidable consequence of the starred system

Lads have left the panel in every year in recent times and will continue to do so in future as well

[Be alot of dead rubber games near end of the seasons]

Be alot of dead rubber games near end of the seasons

This has proven to be the case in the past.

Does it state anywhere that if in bottom 2 but win the championship you don't get relegated?

They avoid relegation

Tyrone the same with Paul Devlin doing great things at U20, but not many people took him too serious when senior position became available

Don't think it is as clear cut as that. Devlin has his supporters but maybe not in the influential positions....that is the key.

Fermanagh were very poor. Tyrone look good but next week and an Ulster semifinal or final v Derry will determine how good.

[Nevertheless, they are a hard team to beat with some very handy players and as a team are usually very well set up with most teams finding them difficult to break down]

Don't think many will be worrying too much about the Jim Devlin or McGarrity  Cup results. Regardless of form at this stage its unlikely we're looking at anything different apart from the obvious contenders in Senior, Intermediate and Junior.

Senior - Errigal, Trillick followed by Dungannon, Killyclogher, Loughmacrory and Dromore.
Intermediate - Eglish, Clonoe, Coalisland followed by Moy, Aghyaran, Greencastle and Rock.
Junior - Cookstown, Clogher followed by Drumragh.

Would you rule Strabane out of Junior? They took Cookstown out in the Ulster League final, surely they might have something about them.

Don't see it with them. Downward trajectory the last few years and no real injection of new players coming through - highlighted by not much impact on Tyrone panels since Oran McGrath in 2022 and Kevin Nelson on the Minor squad in 2023. Would go as far as to say I would fancy Glenelly before Strabane.

Sorry lads but you are totally overlooking greencastle, good young squad with a bit of flair, few lads back from Australia this year and wont be far away, the experience of the team that won div 1 in 2021 are slowly stepping away allowing young blood to come through. Dont over look the dark horse.

I think its fair to say that Greencastle aren't the favorites for Intermediate this year. Nevertheless, they are a hard team to beat with some very handy players and as a team are usually very well set up with most teams finding them difficult to break down. If they can get things right they could give the League and Championship a run surely but from the outset wont be the bookies favorite.

Will be harder for most club teams to setup well and be difficult to break down in the new game.  More defensive minded teams will have to change tact to an extent as going to be difficult to win games by scoring less than 15 points. 

You needed more than 15+ points to win games regularly in the old rules. I think it is going to take 22/23+ points to win games in the new rules once every team gets into the full swing of how best to utilise and play the rules.

Kerry very good - new rules will suit them
Armagh not good, poor start and not recovering too well
Marty poor as usual - Kerry love in
Fitzmaurice poor as usual - too biased for Kerry and praising the rules
Conor Lane shocking poor AGAIN

Also is there a senior development squad or is that created after the under 20s are out?

The so called 'development squad' played their Derry counterparts on Saturday morning in Moortown.

Heard the Tyrone team was full of senior squad players and very few development players in comparison to the Derry line up.

Is Dungannon not a better option?

How would Dungannon be an better option. Plunkett park is fully terraced with a covered stand, state of the art changing rooms and the surfaces in great condition since Dimac took over maintenance over a year ago. There's severe wind and rain forecast for the whole of the country not just Pomeroy.

You maybe correct about all you say about Pomeroy but never any atmosphere there. Never!

Always a game of 2 halves with the howling gale.

O'Neill park has the best atmosphere in Tyrone, bar none.

Roughly 8-10k. Covered stand and terraced the whole way round.

Fine place!

You never been? Very open, always blowing a gale, freezing cold...