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[Blame lies fully with Ballintubber in my view, they clearly felt they were pulling a stroke by wearing jerseys the same colour as their usual kit]

Blame lies fully with Ballintubber in my view, they clearly felt they were pulling a stroke by wearing jerseys the same colour as their usual kit

Both clubs in their normal kits wouldn't have been as much of a clash as Killererin are white jerseys with red shorts, the GAA allowed red/white v white/red in the Cork-Tyrone semi-final last year

And that's an informed view is it?? 

I'm guessing both clubs were told to wear their county colours and, while Ballintubber may say that they did so, there was no good reason for not wearing the green above the red

0-9 to 1-5 for the team in lighter red Killererin

Blame lies fully with Ballintubber in my view, they clearly felt they were pulling a stroke by wearing jerseys the same colour as their usual kit

Both clubs in their normal kits wouldn't have been as much of a clash as Killererin are white jerseys with red shorts, the GAA allowed red/white v white/red in the Cork-Tyrone semi-final last year

At least the Irish numbers are more legible tonight

Though Kennelly has changed his jersey at half-time to the one worn last week, with "gold" (ie yellow) numbers

At least the Irish numbers are more legible tonight

Tyrone gallery updated, if anybody here spots any mistakes/omissions please don't hesitate to let me know

http:www.prideinthejersey.com/tyrone.html

ziggysego - Cheers for that, can't believe I made that mistake, corrected now!

5 Sams - Retrogaa has been used to provide info but some of their jerseys (eg Cork 1984) are innacurate, obviously this site will just be for historical reference

Bensars - A HP rather than a Commodore, but point taken! Graphic design not the forte, main intention is the content

Dougal - Ideally club jerseys will be included at a later date

Still a lot to do, but it's a start

Dromara Gael is quite right about Down wearing an all black strip against Cork in the NFL but it is going back quite a while - probably around 25 years. My recollection is that the game may have been played in Castlewellan and I have a notion that the great Tommy McGovern might have got a rare score for us late on.

1982 it was, and Tommy McGovern scored 1-1, it finished Down 1-6 Cork 2-3

Think I was at that game, do you have the full teams Tillager? I have a vague recollection of a less than svelte Christy Ryan playing full forward for Cork.

Centre-back according to the following day's Indo!

DOWN: P Donnam; P Kennedy, M Curley, M O'Higgins; A Quiery, P O'Rourke, B McGovern; T McGovern, C Burns; J McCartan, A Rodgers, D Bell; M Linden, B Loughran, J Digney. Subs: B Gardiner for Loughran, N King for O'Higgins.
CORK: M Creedon; S Fuohy, T Creedon, J Evans; M Moloney, C Ryan, T O'Callaghan; T O'Reilly, M Burns; D Barry, E O'Mahony, E Murphy; N O'Connor, D McCarthy, J Cleary. Subs: M Connolly for Burns.
Referee: J Toner (Armagh).

Dromara Gael is quite right about Down wearing an all black strip against Cork in the NFL but it is going back quite a while - probably around 25 years. My recollection is that the game may have been played in Castlewellan and I have a notion that the great Tommy McGovern might have got a rare score for us late on.

1982 it was, and Tommy McGovern scored 1-1, it finished Down 1-6 Cork 2-3

Anyone have any idea why Kildare were wearing their green jerseys? Did someone think that white and saffron would clash in the late evening light?

Mark of respect to Dermot snr I would suspect.

That's a good suggestion actually, hadn't thought of that

Anyone have any idea why Kildare were wearing their green jerseys? Did someone think that white and saffron would clash in the late evening light?

If they're going to do this, they might as well just watch the match on the TV and write the report from that.

It happens sometimes 

Lots of national newspapers contract smaller games out to one reporter who then writes the report under an assumed name

Which makes perfect sense if there is a full round of national league fixtures for both football and hurling, but for gods sakes there were only 2 championship games on. It's less than 2 hours from Dublin.

Papers are cutting down on sending their own reporters outside of Dublin though, using a local freelance saves on paying a full-timer's expenses. It keeps me in a job (though I didn't do the Tyrone-Down game)

Joaquin Phoenix

That's tony mcentee

I was only quoting that post - see my comment underneath