Tyrone V Donegal

[orangeman]

D. MC CAUL to full back please - Mc Ginley is a good lad but not Tyrone material - everybody realises this - if Mc Ginley plays full back, Tyrone's chances will be reduced.

[tyroneman]

Mc Ginley is a good lad but not Tyrone material - everybody realises this

Unfortunatley Micky Harte doesn't...................................

File under Peter Donnelly and Martin Penrose

[ONeill]

Both teams are going into this game on the back of unconvincing wins. All the ingredients for a cracker. It'll be interesting to see how the bookies rate this:

a) Recent form - Donegal are unbeaten in NFL and SFC. Hammered Tyrone in Omagh. Donegal defeat holders Armagh in tough season-defining encounter. Tyrone stumble past a side with no wins in 2007 in all competitions.
b) Championship credentials - Tyrone, been there done that x2. Donegal - no Ulster title since 1992.
c) Injuries - Donegal are almost at 100%. Tyrone still have huge doubts.

Although I'd have Donegal slight favourites, PP has Tyrone 13/8 for the Provincial and Donegal 15/8.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

D. MC CAUL to full back please - Mc Ginley is a good lad but not Tyrone material - everybody realises this - if Mc Ginley plays full back, Tyrone's chances will be reduced.

Interesting, and worth I'd try I'd say in the absence of Joe Mc Mahon. Classy footballer Damien Mc Caul.

[neutral]

Interesting Paddy Heaney article today.  In a twisted heaney - esque way is he trying to get Mellon 8/12 weeks and ultimately get his revenge on the Moy letterwriter who questioned his jouralistic integrity not even 2 weeks ago. 

[supersarsfields]

I misssed the first game due to a family Bereavement and now going to miss this one due to being on holidays in Cyrpus. Hopefully get somewere overthere to watch it. Can anyone reccommend a good Irish bar that might be showing it?

[orangeman]

Ryan Mellon will get 4 weeks - GUARANTEED - That's all he deserves anyway -  nothing more than that - it's only an attempt to sell newspapers to suggest otherwise - that man Mooney again ??

[loughshore lad]

This is a seriously hard game to call. Both teams are coming into it on the back of poor first round performances although Donegals earlier form is much better than Tyrones.
The two main concerns I would have from a Tyrone perspective are:
- Donegals manager will know the Tyrone players inside out and be well prepared to exploit potential weaknesses like full back
- The intenslity of the Donegal and Armagh game was immense. For Donegal to play relatively poorly but match Armaghs intensity and sneak the win will give them great confidence. Since Paddy Tally left I have had reservations about the conditioning of the Tyrone players for these highly charged games, if Donegal bring that kind of game with them Tyrone could struggle to match it. It took the run of games in 2005 to bring Tyrone on.

[orangeman]

Have you got over the Cookstwon game yet ? Hard to believe - what you think ?

[Fuzzman]

What's the bets somebody picks up another injury over the next 3 weeks?

Does anyone actually know what's the story with Joey now?
Is he just not match fit or like Mugsy a bit heavy on it.

Is there any more time frame on Brian's eye?
Has he any vision in it now at all?

[orangeman]

Brian's vision hasn't recovered very much at all - his vision is still a blur - I think he's going to see specialist today as he's concerned that the vision isn't coming on as well as he was hoping for -

[tyroneman]

Since Paddy Tally left I have had reservations about the conditioning of the Tyrone players for these highly charged games

Agree 100% -Tyrone have generally not looked sharp at all since 2003.

It took them until the Dublin replay to start looking the part in 2005 and that was purely down to volume of games played.

Saw McMahon, McGee and (I think) Penrose dandering up the main street in Clones 2 Sundays ago just beofre start of minor game - Joey certainnly didn't seem to be carrying much beef on him - and actually seemed a lot smaller than you would think.

Something tells me there is a great performance left in this Tyrone team - whether Donegal is 2 or 3 games too early I don't know but a 60min repeat of 1st half  v Louth (replay) would go down nicely.

[never kickt a ball]

Brian McGuigan apparently at the Ardboe V Cookstown match.

[phpearse]

Grow a bit of a stubble and he could pass for Roy Keane.

[orangeman]

That's Brian ok at the Ardboev v Cookstown match - hopefully he'll have a jersey on shortly -