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Any predictions for this weeks team?

Morgan
McCrory McNamee McCarron
K McGeary Brennan Sludden
Donnelly Cavanagh
Donnelly Harte Meyler
McCurry McAliskey Brennan

Bradley or S Cav instead of Harte is still unfit?
Hampsey and HPMcGeary left out too 

Is McCarron or Brennan suspended? Will Richy Donnelly, Sean Cav, Harte and Bradley be fit? If everyone's available I'd go with

Morgan
McCrory McNamee McCarron
T McCann Justy R Brennan
R Donnelly C Cav
M Donnelly Harte Meyler
McCurry S Cav McAliskey

Definitely a few spots up for grabs and would be hard to leave out the two McGearys, Sludden, Bradley and L Brennan.

I make it 34 we had on the squad last year including Sean Fox.

McBride and Hughes dropped out and we added 7 new players, 1 of whom has been cut along with Quinn.

That makes it 37.

McNabb, Joe McMahon and Niall McKenna are currently on the treatment table with medium to long term injuries.

Lee Brennan, McShane, Mulgrew and Fox will probably be off with the U21s shortly. There's lads who will be pulled away with Sigerson commitments as well over the next month or so.

It's not an excessive number to have involved at this time of year but the usual faces are still out here looking to peddle their agenda against Harte, very sad and tiresome.

Agreed. Can't please everyone. Even noticed that during the game on Saturday Kyle Coney was posting on twitter and seemed to be giving out that Harte had the audacity to make a few substitutions when Tyrone were getting beat at half time...

Also I don't think Sean Fox is actually part of the panel at the moment, could be wrong though.

What kind of numbers are we actually talking about? So from last years squad there was initially 7 lads added, and conlan has since been cut.

Paddy Quinn has also been cut and Pete Hughes and Danny McBride have left the panel. I believe Niall McKenna and PJ Quinn and still offically on the panel but are long term injuries. Big Joe and Ronan McNabb are also long term injuries and then you have Mcshane, Lee Brennan and Mulgrew that are still u21s and will presumably be training with them sometimes. Add in a few other random injuries that will inevitably occur and suddenly the panel doesnt look that big

And Mulgrew is still in??? That's comical!!!

How is that comical?

Mulgrew is clearly on the panel this year for experience. Maybe he won't play too much (remember he will be involved with the u21s and I'm guessing he'll be one of their main men) but the management obviously see serious potential there and it isn't hard to see why seeing as he played county minors for 3 seasons. Can't see why anyone would have a problem including him on the panel, can only be a good thing for him to be exposed to training with the likes of Cavanagh etc and the increased strength and conditioning. Also by all accounts he impressed against Derry up in Owenbeg so I can definitely see the worth in keeping him on the panel.

Harry Og Conlon and Patrick Quinn dropped for the league according to Hoganstand - any others?

Yeah think that's it, going forward with a big panel by the sounds of it. Few lads could struggle to get much game time, although potentially (all being well) there could be more scope to rotate in Div 2 than Div 1.

McCurry starts for me every day in the big games - he's a classy forward.

I always thought of him as a player that would come alive in the good day within a championship situation.

On another note – I was never convinced about Meyler but now I am!

This.

Think McCurry has had plenty of big games for us already and only turns 23 this year. Meyler did ok last year when he came into the senior team but he looks like he could really kick on this year and be a really big player for us.

Think Meyler is perfect for that half forward/ Ryan McHugh role, he can run all day. Looks to have bulked up a bit during the winter too which is encouraging and should help him break the tackle more often

Good to see mcshane get a few points last night, expected him to feature more for the seniors as the championship progressed last year and thought he'd been looking out of form and confidence recently but that should do him the world of good.

Any sign of these extended highlights the bbc were supposed to have on their website?

Just a bit too high on must win list... Jimmy McGuinness hardly won a McKenna Cup game... all this five in a row chat is 

Jimmy mc Guinness only bagged 1 all ireland

yeah but was there three years and that was his focus. Tyrone have beaten no top team in the championship since 2008 but have won a lot of McKenna Cups!

So the secret to winning All-Irelands and beating 'top' teams in the championship is to not win the McKenna Cup? Fairly sure that Tyrone's success has not had a negative impact on their results later in the year. Every year at this time they try out a lot of new players, same as everyone else, and I'm sure they're not going over the top training-wise just yet.

Realistically winning games can only be a positive thing and if you can do that at this time of year without busting your balls even better.

am I right in saying that last years final was live on the BBC? no chance of a repeat this time around?

any team news yet? guessing this could be the last chance for a few guys before the panel is cut.

Is pete hughes still on the panel? What about Danny mc bride? I know mc bride was playing for St Marys but saw he wasn't on the 26 last weekend

Looks like Patrick Quinn could get dropped anyway, bit harsh as he scores a lot of goals for dungannon and would be another option as a big man at full forward but harte doesn't seem to fancy him as he hasnt got much of a chance