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Good article by Cahir OKane in todays Irish news about the problems with our attack. he's saying essentially the players are there its the shape thats wrong. i would strongly agree with him

[McKernan has the hand in plaster cast. Y]

McKernan, Meyler and Burns. Any word on fitness?

McKernan has the hand in plaster cast. You could rule him out of the remaining two league games.
 
Tarlac Quinn - any word on him?

Any idea how this was sustained?

hurt it in the first half against Mayo

McKernan, Meyler and Burns. Any word on fitness?

McKernan has the hand in plaster cast. You could rule him out of the remaining two league games.
 
Tarlac Quinn - any word on him?

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-68332193.amp

Probs ahead for those of us with dbf filter removed and remapped??

Derry folk will be pondering Hartes selection this evening. He effectively raised the white flag on Friday morning when news of a weakened team started to filter through. Dublin went from odds against to odds on with the bookmakers.
Rory G would never have done that, he'd have certainly started his strongest side and roared and kicked every ball on the sideline
Harte is a canny operator for sure, but his latter tenure with Tyrone was conservative and risk averse football. Tonight really resonated.
What advantage have Derry gained from lying down? Have they learnt much? I dunno. I doubt they've learnt anything at all
They will still in all likelihood have to play Dublin again in the league final, close to a crucial Ulster championship tie V Donegal. Does he play a shadow side again with an eye on Donegal?
With hindsight, how wise was it to rush Conor Glass and the other 2 Glen lads to play Kerry 6 days after winning an all Ireland final. Harte got lucky in that none of them picked up an injury
I believe Derry need to win their next league game, otherwise they've thrown form and momentum away, and league points in Division 1 are not straight forward

Michael McKernan & Aidan Clarke both unavailable for Sundays trip to Killarney according to Irish News. Thats a big gaping hole in our defence. No word on Seanie O'Donnell in the article, but can only presume he will be out as well.
Would Tarlac Quinn be close to a return? The squad seems a bit light in defensive reinforcements? Eoin Corry would have been an option, but havnt seen him named in any squads to date

Is McShane still a part of the panel? Was definitely there during the McKenna Cup, was along with other injured players in the stand. Rumours he played a challenge game for Owen Roe's on Saturday night as the Mayo game was being played.

Heard he returned to full training the weekend after the Derry match. Playing a challenge game for Owen Roes would make alot of sense, he's coming back off major surgery 8 months ago.
Im only guessing here - this weekend surely still too soon, but then there's another fortnight to the Monaghan game on 16th March. Could we see him make the 26 then? It would be a boost for sure

How do we know mcglennan isn't up to it if he hasn't had a go

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He joined in 2022 season I believe & don't even think he has started a McKenna cup game? He obviously isn't up to it as he would have featured by now.
Knows the drills, has the gear, likely useful for training drills.

Very unfair lads.

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Unbelievable that. How many appearances did he make for Eglish last year? The lad has had no football at all, just returning after a very lengthy lay off, and people are judging him in 2 ten minute substitute appearances against Derry when the game was gone, and Galway - when we were chasing the game

Emmet Bradley wasn't on the panel o  Sunday either. Injured?

His brother got married on Saturday

Almost 5hrs to throw in, and no team sheet up. True to form.
Our senior management don't get much right these days... underwhelming

I dont think we can make any judgement really, he has had no club football and little training this long while.

We got absolutely zero kick from our bench on Sunday though. McGeary did ok i suppose

McShane is only back in training following a lengthy lay off. It would be pretty desperate to throw him on. We have a lot of men that need a good pre season training - Oguz, McShane, McGleenan, McGeary, Mattie Donnelly. It'll take a while to get them up to speed. They do require match fitness as well, im not sure how thats achieved in the present condensed season.

Some of the basics was really poor on Sunday. A couple of basic kick passes from Kennedy that went astray, the mark Niall Devlin missed was poor - got to be scoring that
Very sloppy at the beggining of second half, allowing Galway those first two scores were just as critical as the goal
No urgency coming out of defence, even after a good turnover and with pockets of space to run and kick into. No real purposeful running off the shoulder - all too lateral and slow

The FF interchange system we persist with doesnt really work. We had kilpatrick in there for a few spells - never once kicked an early ball into him. What a waste. Cormac Quinn had a 5 minutes spell in there, Im still confused about that

Correcting some fairly basic stuff would make a significant improvement straight away

Yesterdays game wouldn't help sell it to anyone but do the county board need to find ways to help improve the support and atmosphere at county games? Every McKenna Cup and league game is currently played in Omagh and can be a pretty drab place especially when the crowds are fairly low.

Would it not be better to take 1 or 2 games a year to other club grounds? A packed Carrickmore would have been better than a quarter full healy park yesterday. Dungannon should be another option going forward as well.

They certainly aren't playing them all in Omagh for the quality of the surface.

Great shout. The stand wasnt even full yesterday, we are getting particularly poor crowds. There is no justification now playing all home games in Omagh. 

Would that be Plunkett Donaghy's two cubs on the bench??

Steve started at No.4 & had a right good game, with his brother Adam on the bench. They are both sons of Plunkett, yes.

Omagh pulled away at the end but I didn't think they were streets ahead of Dungannon as Niblock and Morgan constantly were laying on thick, DG got level with about 10 to go then a goalkeeping error let Omagh back in front and really killed DG.

Fair play to young Holmes on the DG side, a great performance,the same lad was carried off in the semi with an injury I thought looked bad (obviously not that bad). The other wing back Neeson had a great game too, but you could have driven a bus down the Dungannon CHB channel for most of the game. Overall i thought it was a quality contest but still plenty of mistakes from both sides.

Good game. Felt Dgn def closer but the goal they conceded was a killer. Holmes probably best on show for Dgn with 6 also putting in a good shift. Young McKeown(?) from Ardboe no. 12 had a good game as well. Dgn missed a open goal in 1st half and that might have put a different complexion on the game.
Omagh have some very talented lads. 6 definitely one for the future. 8 also had an excellent game. They worked the same kickout over and over and Dgn still couldn't stop it. Picked off their points well.

If you put those two teams and Donaghmore together there is some talent in Tyrone. Hopefully the county can bring them through.

yeah, two years in succession we have had 3 semi finalists from Tyrone schools.
The addition of Diarmaid McNulty to the county U20 coaching set up seems like a good move as well.
The U20's isnt straight knoackout anymore, its moved to a league format. I think this will suit too