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Dillane & McCloskey are keepers I think. Van Der Flier maybe.

Best might have to be relieved of the captaincy otherwise he could lose his place. Line outs inside their 22 were poor. Back up front row was well beaten which isn't much use. What happens when Mike Ross goes?

Interesting one with Best I thought his throwing was ok but with the ones we lost his throws seemed to be on the money but seemed to be with the jumpers where we were beaten. Crooked throws, overthrows is down to the hooker but a few appeared to be a lifting/jumping problem. I guess he inherited a poisoned chalice after POC. He is fantastic around the park too. (Ps this isn't Simon Best posting!!)

If we can blood a few from this 6 nations I think it will have been a partial success. Kearneys best days are behind him I'm afraid, Trimble is a shadow of himself from 2 years ago. The fact Nathan White is our 2nd choice prop at the minute speaks volumes. No point complaining about injuries because they are the norm these days and do any teams play with a first choice 15 these days?

Killyman       Kevin Hughes

Whose the Kevin Hughes with Killyman?

Ignore this WUM - he knows sweet F.A about gaelic football never mind rugby.

His distaste for rugby and the supposed 'silver spoon' upbringing of players is just a mask for being a bigot!

He's probably the same boy that set up a Support Tiernan McCann Faceboook page!

Now on the other hand having those Tyrone boys bulked up something tara over the winter. Must be on something those boys.

Euro rugby is going nowhere. Big men crashing into each other with concussion as standard. Hard to watch compared to southern hem. Sport is about space,  vision, teamwork. It is not about losing consciousness.

Agreed,
   Whilst this 15 man rugby league will win you a 6N's, that's about it. The Southern Hemisphere have moved on as the world cup showed, but alas we'll celebrate like billyo if we win the Div2 of rugby and talk about challenging the Southern Hemisphere teams, but come the summer tours we'll get our arses handed to us.

Agree with both of these.  I missed the France Italy game but as well as player welfare, also in terms of entertainment I found both the other weekend games wanting.  Few line breaks, 20 phases to move the ball 8 metres, all thud and thump.  Someone should tell Henshaw that you're allowed to pass the ball in rugby.  It's as if the World Cup never happened.  Oh, and ITV is shite too!

Yeah at one point Wales i think had 25 phases or more and the commentator was going on as if it some great achievement when all they were doing was going back across the 22 without getting anywhere. What was there 8 tries or something over the weekend? I am a big rugby fan but if i miss watching a match now I'm not really bothered as I'm not really missing much.

Just on ITV I thought D'Arcy was decent as co-commentator whilst Johnny Wilko would nearly send you to sleep with his voice!

Its classic Brolly though. His opinion is fact and that's it. He'll get a couple of newspaper columns out of it now in the next few weeks and he'll be happy enough.

I have watched the video numerous times and I think whilst clumsy McCann was going for the ball and for brolly to say it was premeditated is typical of the man.

I'm the same as most on here. Payne is the best FB in Irish Rugby at the minute and McCloskey the form centre... Why are we doing this?

Also Paddy Jackson not in the squad is scandalous!!

Agree on Payne and McCloskey. If Jackson isn't starting he's not gonna be on the bench. Whether he should be starting or not is another argument but I would like to see him given a couple of starts.

I think Wales by 7-10 points. Obviously I'm hoping not.

Just seen the Cavan team and it is a strong enough outfit and with conditions expected to get bad over next 24/36 hours then they will be a leveller and will suit the men in blue.

This maybe a lot tighter than people expect but I think we scrape him by 2 points - hopefully much more but a tight dogged affair wouldn't surprise me at all.

Get this man a column in the Irish news! Well called sir.

And that is what you call a bite!

You should watch it another time then as McCann was very close to actually picking up the break off the throw in, he missed it and then clattered into Rogers (who by the way come up with such a witty original response on Twitter - so funny). It was certainly reckless and probably worthy of a yellow card in my opinion. Thats my pennys worth anyway. But have to say I am looking forward to another season on the GAA Board where everything that Tyrone do is picked up on and we have about 10 pages debate with Tyronies and ABTs on every single incident.

Just started watching homeland always been aware of it but for some reason never watched it. Got through the first season and a half its excellent. Hearing it tails off in the 3rd series or is that rubbish?

There is a dip but stick with it. The last couple of series have been excellent imo. Well worth hanging in there.

First season was excellent. Up and down after that. But worth a watch.

Jeez thin Dana one must be one of the most annoying characters on tv! Almost season 2 finished enjoying it still.

Just started watching homeland always been aware of it but for some reason never watched it. Got through the first season and a half its excellent. Hearing it tails off in the 3rd series or is that rubbish?

Les Kiss has them playing good rugby too. Keeping ball in hand at every opportunity it's actually exciting to watch it. Piennar is a class act and Jackson playing well too.

Is the rule: A player cannot be eligible for juvenile football in the same year.
So for example, a player turns 16 on 01/01/2016 can't play adult football in 2016 as they are still a juvenile.

In some clubs there is an attitude that they must get these young lads through to at least reserve level as soon as the are allowed rather than as soon as they are ready, there is a huge difference!

Or is it not the case that they need these young lads to play reserves to make up their numbers?

[For Harte to refer to the players as a drain on energy was unnecessary. I don't think McGuigan would have said anything on the matter if Harte hadn't reopened the issue.]

While I don't think McGuigan was up to the standard of starting on the team I do think he has a point. He and a good few others had worked hard for 6 months. Before the Tyrone team took to the field against Kerry the management took jerseys off two players to give them to Joe McMahon and Dermot Carlin because there was only allowed to be 26 players stripped out. From memory it was said that one player who had a jersey taken off him left then and there. Regardless of the standing of the players who came back in the treatment of the players who lost their shirts was fairly shoddy.

For Harte to refer to the players as a drain on energy was unnecessary. I don't think McGuigan would have said anything on the matter if Harte hadn't reopened the issue.

I think this is the key point here. Whether he is good enough or not for Tyrone is besides the point. Sure McGuigan hadnt said anything in public since his departure and this only came about because Harte brought it up in whatever context he was speaking about. Those giving out about McGuigans response ask yourself if someone said you were a drain on the energy of a squad then what way would you take it and would you not be a little angry about it too?

For the record I am a big fan of Harte and think McGuigan is just below the level of an intercounty footballer but for someone on here to say he is just an average club player is ridiculous.

Think mcguigan is just right standing up for himself. It was an unnecessary dig from Harte and could have done without saying it.