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I think Donegal have a big advantage over Tyrone in terms of recovery. Tyrone have a days rest less and extra time in the legs, they will get little or nothing done this week apart from recover work. In any case I think they look to be a team in transition with an awful lot of young players thrown in. I think Donegal could end up winning this match comfortably and set up a repeat of the division 2 national league final. 

Agreed. The turnaround time is ridiculous. Was a time supporters could enjoy the win for a week and another week to look forward to the next round. Is a big ask of Tyrone after such a gruelling game players coming off with knocks and hardly time to sort the injuries, then prepare for next Sunday. Donegal had a handy aul run-out, tho well done to them. 

It's very much ridiculous. It doesn't allow anyone time for a breath. The games are coming so thick and fast that there's no time for a build up. And supporters become fatigued too and so on. It's just way too compressed

Not to mention Coldrick allowed the physio rule to be ignored. Player gets physio, meant to go off. He did it once but then not after. And multiple times that player had an impact the next play. Coldrick bad today overall

Shite rule that.

Not disagreeing with you. But it's in place, he ignored it, and then those players who were half dead moments before had an impact

Goldrick has to be one of the worst refs about

Yet won you the match after you fell apart 2nd half. You'd think you'd be grateful to him

How the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloon

I'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you

Are you serious? 5 cavan high challenges unpunished by ref, phantom black card. 40 seconds extra played at end for cavan and the ref won it lol

Black card all day long for pulling down a player. And nothing to say about your final score? The keeper was fouled. That was a free out, not in. And wasn't Cavans last free not a black card and penalty for preventing a goal scoring chance under the new rules? You're being absolutely blind to how he won that for you

Just the 10 steps he allowed the keeper before he soloed and then took too long again. Not sure what the issue is there.

He was being fouled! Jeez like

He was being tackled fairly. You're being absolutely blind here.

Even the lads on RTÉ radio there on the way home are saying it was never a free and the keeper was fouled. The ref messed up that one

How the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloon

I'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you

Are you serious? 5 cavan high challenges unpunished by ref, phantom black card. 40 seconds extra played at end for cavan and the ref won it lol

Black card all day long for pulling down a player. And nothing to say about your final score? The keeper was fouled. That was a free out, not in. And wasn't Cavans last free not a black card and penalty for preventing a goal scoring chance under the new rules? You're being absolutely blind to how he won that for you

Just the 10 steps he allowed the keeper before he soloed and then took too long again. Not sure what the issue is there.

He was being fouled! Jeez like

Not to mention Coldrick allowed the physio rule to be ignored. Player gets physio, meant to go off. He did it once but then not after. And multiple times that player had an impact the next play. Coldrick bad today overall

How the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloon

I'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you

Are you serious? 5 cavan high challenges unpunished by ref, phantom black card. 40 seconds extra played at end for cavan and the ref won it lol

Black card all day long for pulling down a player. And nothing to say about your final score? The keeper was fouled. That was a free out, not in. And wasn't Cavans last free not a black card and penalty for preventing a goal scoring chance under the new rules? You're being absolutely blind to how he won that for you

How the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloon

I'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you

He gave Cavan more time than they should have got at the end for them to try and get an equaliser.

He didn't even play enough time to cover the wasting at the last Morgan free lad...

How the hell is it a free out when 3 players are kneeing on you. Goldrick is a complete balloon

I'd go get your eyesight checked if I were you. The ref won it for you

Cavan got some soft frees there as well.

Ref gave Tyrone very handy frees mostly though, and is letting them play act and time waste too.

What were you watching. Tyrone hardly had any frees

What are you watching? How many scoreable frees did they get?

Though I will say that McKernan should have got black there.

Did the ref forget the rules ?

He did. Forgot to ask a man who had physio treatment to go off, then he ran into midfield clipped a man and hit the ground to win a free. Joke stuff. Shouldn't have been on the field

Cavan got some soft frees there as well.

Ref gave Tyrone very handy frees mostly though, and is letting them play act and time waste too.

It's odd isn't it?

Every single last person involved in sport knows that protracted knockout competitions are a steaming pile of dung until the element of jeopardy arrives.

And yet all around Ireland, all around the world, we keep introducing and extending these formats.

Other sports can at least use professionalism and a need for paying spectators as their excuse.

We cannot.

It's very odd alright. the more it comes to it, the more I'd go back to Championship as straight knockout and expand the League or such to cover games. But there's no doubt that more matches does not equal better Championship. Less is more, and too many games is too many missable games so people start to stay away. If every game meant you had to win, we'd be heading somewhere. Do your provincials and seeding from League or such, but 2 tiers, 16 teams, let them go at it. People would go mental for it

I agree on the goals very encouraging to see them go for the juggler instead of fisting over the bar. True on the Fermanagh game aswell but these are just observations I've made i'm not criticizing as it was a great performance the last day despite this; bit of a step up again this weekend but you don't know what your gonna get with Tyrone.

That's it alright, we went for those goals while we took our frees when they came. We will need to alright. Think we've a decent chance, and great time to try and catch Tyrone on the hop after we've had a game and they've been waiting since last round of the League. It'll be interesting

Cavan team named.

No Killian Clarke, McLoughlin or McVeety in starting 15.

Would love to see Cavan win this but unfortunately I think Tyrone will win this by 8-10 points. Cavan struggle to score from open play and will struggle to keep all the Tyrone fires out.

Ie. Canavan, McCurry, McShane if he back on form.

Yeah only the 3-4 scored from open play last day out. Quite the struggle

4 points from play is not a great return haha.

3 goals from play however is very good, but the worrying thing is its not a common theme for Cavan to score goals but hopefully that's changing.

How many goals did they score in the league altogether 3 or 4?

Garavn Jones scored more from play in the Fermanagh game v Cavan that any Cavan player scored from pay in all 7 gmaes combined.

So there's definitely an issue with scoring from play for Cavan. But its championship now and trends can go out the window.

Well it's 7 scores from play in a gale force wind conditions, so it's ok considering that. Some of those goals would be chances that some would take points from, so good we've goals in us anyway.

Wouldn't be too concerned with that Fermanagh League game. We were clearly holding our water for 2 weeks after. They were playing for their lives and we had nothing to play for that day