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How did the Omagh email work out?
Any change to next Thursday fixtures?

Has prompted a County Committee meeting on Tuesday night.

Inter-County Players Availability to Clubs
(a) The period of time during which Senior InterCounty
Players shall not be expected to fulfil InterClub
Championship Fixtures prior to Inter-County
Championship Games, in the same Code, shall be as
follows:
Senior Inter-County Championships:
(1) All-Ireland Finals - maximum 20 days.
(2) All other Games - maximum 13 days.
All other Grades of Championship, including AllIreland
Minor and Under 21 Finals - maximum 7
days.
A County Bye Law may specify a lesser period in
each case.
(b) Senior Inter-County Panels shall not be permitted
to go on Training Weekends, or training of longer
duration, after the Final of their respective National
League having been played, except during the 13
days period prior to a Senior Championship Game,
or during the 20 days prior to an All-Ireland Senior
Final.
(c) A player on an Inter-County Minor panel shall not
play in Adult Club League Competitions/Challenge
Games until his Inter-County activity for the year is
concluded.
An Inter-County panellist is defined as a player
listed in a panel of 24 players on March 1st, and
90
which may be amended and confirmed to the
County Secretary on a monthly basis thereafter.)


Somebody in that county board needs to pick up a rule book. Thursday night games? No consideration given to club players once again!

Looks like Omagh are taking the fight to them, be interesting to see how this pans out!!!

They only gave round by round. No dates? I could be wrong. Is round 2 Easter Saturday for example? I don't know what I'm doing next weekend.... can plan nothing!!! Her indoors going nuts!!! 

Game Easter Saturday and every wkd, until wkd before(starred round) Tyrone play Derry.

Any word of League fixtures??? Starts in a few weeks and no one knows what's happening!!! What is the hold up???

Supposed to be out this week. If Tyrone make it to league final won't start until Sat 15th April.

Do Killyclougher have no underage or have they been missed by accident?

Cappagh

200k to run academy's and tyrone management last year...

Any word how the meeting went in Garvaghey on Monday night?

Clubs to be denied access to their best young players, according to leaked Tyrone training schedule

That is when club managers and coaches are invited along to Tyrone's state of the art centre of excellence to discuss the new training schedule in place for the Tyrone Academy members.

We reckon there are going to be a lot of queries. First and foremost is likely to be: "When will we have access to our best 16-18-year-olds?"

The existence of Under-17 and U-18 tournaments will exacerbate issues this year but an email sent to the clubs, and published here by SportsJOE, suggests they are getting the thin end of the wedge in the Red Hand county.

Without a provincial title in five years, Tyrone are clearly gunning for the minor grade this year as they let clubs know they will be requiring their U-17 and U-18 county players for three sessions each week – two on the field, Mondays and Thursdays, plus a weekend gym session.

If these development squads are also playing a game each week that will see them on county duty four days each week.

The whole email is below.

FAO Club managers and youth officers

We wish you all a happy new year. Tyrone Academy would like to convey to you and your club our best wishes for the season that lies ahead. No doubt some of your teams have already started to prepare diligently and we would like to ensure that Tyrone Academy teams work closely and in cooperation with your clubs. We wish to convey our sincere thanks and appreciation to all of you for the great support and encouragement that Tyrone Academy has received in recent years. Tyrone Academy is working hard with players and coaches from all clubs to improve playing standards for all players, so that players return to your clubs with a positive experience. 17s and 18 county teams both have fully fledged competitions. The demand on club players is therefore going to be more than normal and we wish to work with clubs to mitigate as far as possible the effects of running two squads for what is a one off occurrence due to the change in age rules for minors. Our county minor squad aim to have pitch sessions on Mondays  and Thursdays with a gym session on Saturday morning and to avoid disruption the under 17 squad will mirror this schedule. Currently the under 17 squad has players representing two or more teams and to avoid unnecessary pressure being applied on players, we want to work closely and in cooperation with clubs and schools to manage the training loads.

We wish to ensure that clubs, parents and players can communicate effectively with ourselves where there are concerns so that these can be dealt with before the concern becomes a bigger problem. We cannot function effectively without your goodwill, support and cooperation. We reinforce to players that your club is of paramount importance – a player begins with the club and ends with the club and that is one of the reasons we insist that players wear their club jersey to training. Players have full access to their training programmes which enables club managers / coaches to see what they are doing.
We are happy to provide answers to questions clubs may have and in order to facilitate this process, we are having an open training session whereby club managers can attend and the managers of both the under 17 and 18 teams will be in attendance to answer any queries you may have. The session will take place on Monday 6th Feb in Garvaghey and everyone is invited along to discuss any concerns you may have. In addition to that the players will have the contact details for both sets of management who will be happy to take your call and resolve any issues.
We look forward to working with you throughout the year and we would invite you to contact us at any time and thank you for your ongoing support.
Tyrone Academy.

Good lad Benny! At this rate, think it would be best if we scrap the Club Minor Competition and just let them get on with it sure!

Is this an RTE show available online?

Hasn't been shown on tv yet.

Just wondering which plugins within Kodi that people find the best for tv shows and movies?
Am new to Kodi so just getting used to it.
Is Showbox still working on kodi?
Thanks lads

Exodus is all you need.

I see kilcoo have opted out of playing their league final in order to save players for championship, dunno if I'd not be too happy if K.C ( as co champs, only 4th in league) done that, I think it makes a mockery of the league.. In down I'm sure there was many castledawson players up for playing them and winning and now it looks as if kilcoo handed them it

To be fair I think Kilcoo 100% right. If KC were given 2 days notice of a league final a week before their Ulster Semi with Slaughtneil I'm sure they'd do the same.

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Few scotstown men aren't to happy that Mattie announced this week his move to Cavan, they don't know where that leaves them..

Aren't 2 happy, 3 Monaghan Senior Championships! It leaves them looking for a new manager I'd guess.

Fitness levels aren't as important to an international team as they are to a club side. So so long as they are match fit and can last 60/70 mins at 34 what more do you want?

A history of making those 60/70 minutes count would be a great start.

He certainly offers alot more than Whelan and McCarthy combined - suppose that wouldn't be hard.

Can't understand how James McCarthy keeps his place in the team, the man offers nothing.

Ardboe management would need to take a serious look at themselves after their behaviour yesterday.  Compared to the behaviour of the Omagh mentors, the Ardboe management were bang out of order

Cruiser I cannot accept what you are saying about the Ardboe management ! We played them in Ardboe earlier in the year and I found them to be 3 very likeable characters and I ll admit the referee didn't give them a like that particular day !! The hospitality we received was second to none so i can't see where they would suddenly turn Turk in Omagh !I hear yous tried to scare an ardboe mentor in the tunnel but he was having none of it !

  lol says the Ardboe man. Take the glasses off  Uncle Kev