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Whats the story with Ruari McHugh missing?

Current Tables (in standard format) and Remaining Fixtures are:

Group A
   
Tyrone    3    2    0    1    64    30    34        5
Monaghan2    2    0    0    29    22    7        4
Derry    2    1    1        32    22    10        2
Down    3    0    2    1    33    46    -13        1
Antrim    2    0    2    0    16    54    -38        0


Round 4 – Wed 3rd April

Antrim v Down at Dunsilly
Monaghan v Derry at Castleblayney
(Tyrone Bye)

Round 5 – Wed 10th April

Tyrone V Monaghan at Healy Park
Derry v Antrim at Owenbeg
(Down Bye)

Group B

Donegal    2    2    0    0    37    24    13        4
Armagh    2    2    0    0    28    20    8        4
Cavan    2    0    2    0    29    36    -7        0
Fermanagh2    0    2    0    12    29    -17        0


Round 5 – Wed 10th April
Donegal v Armagh at  Ballybofey
Fermanagh v Cavan at Brewster Park


Quarter Finals – Wed 17th April

(First named team has home advantage)

Group A Runner-Up V Third in Group B
Group B Runner-Up V Third in Group A

Semi Finals – Wed 24th April

(First named team has home advantage)

(1) Winner Section A V QF Winner
(2) Winner Section B V QF Winner

Final –  Wed 1st/Fri 3rd May

Semi Final Winner 1 V Semi Final Winner 2

Is it open draw for the semi finals?

Fs... any good news lads?

Gerry Donnelly

There's a bit of Kevin McManamon about Cormac Murphy. An ideal impact sub, pacey & direct. You know what he is going to do, but its still difficult to stop him.

Absolute shambles yesterday, i think we all expected to lose as it was a fairly nothing game for us, and some lads on the bench deserved minutes... but the manner of  the defeat is hard to stomach

In reality, Dublin have a resource pool so much greater than ours that they can deal with 7 or 8 established men missing so much better than we can.

I understand our management decided not to ask any player back onto the panel, whom had previously walked away. Hopefully they will find the humility to pick up the phone to the likes of Rory Brennan, Peter Teague, Mark Bradley. We need an injection of experience and quality now. The likes of Meyler, Burns etc will not get back up to the pace of the game between now and season end so we are simply too far stretched

The defending for some of the goals yesterday beggers belief. You would have to question whats going on in Garvaghy.

Same oul story...hit the small Counties.

Wise up and get the blinkers off. He  changed his body posture to deliberately stamp on his opponent. Very lucky to only get a 2 match ban.
Take your oil and move on.

Had this been a Tyrone player there would have been a witch hunt all week, trial by social media, and a very very lengthy ban.

Rescinded on appeal

LOL your coach or assistant manager actually served 12 weeks for an almost identical incident when he stamped on Colm Parinsons back

Same oul story...hit the small Counties.

Wise up and get the blinkers off. He  changed his body posture to deliberately stamp on his opponent. Very lucky to only get a 2 match ban.
Take your oil and move on.

Had this been a Tyrone player there would have been a witch hunt all week, trial by social media, and a very very lengthy ban.

That group of players kicked themselves out of the All-Ireland Minor Final in 2021 as well. Looks like it's something they really need to improve on.

Is Ruari McHugh injured?

Will the Omagh pitch be fit to hold the U20 game tomorrow night? surely there must be some consideration to switching venue

Thats really really poor worksmanship - there must be no quality checks at all. Ive seen this before with embroidered school kit, but not as prevalaent as that. As you say its an irritant, drives kids mad. Its not good enough, id push on at them. Tell them you are putting the images up on social media as well, might add some weight to your argument

Buying a football kit nowadays is expensive for parents, but special for kids. They need to understand their market - its important they get this right.

[i dont recall another player who essentially skipped a year at u20 or u21 to go straight to senior.]

Didnt realise that Ben Cullen was still eligible to play for the U20s this year. Article in IN today. Thats incredible progress, as he didnt feature for the minors in the 2021 u17 final

I do feel however that those players eligble for underage sides, should play with their own age group first and then hook up with the seniors second - a la Ruairi Canavan last year. In the past we've always been very clear as a county on this - i dont recall another player who essentially skipped a year at u20 or u21 to go straight to senior.

Conor Clarke went from Minor to the Senior Squad before playing any U21 football.

Thats an interesting one. He played for the U21s in 2012, weeks after he made his first senior appearance.

My point stands though - underage coaches had first preference access to their players. Mickey Harte didnt select his U21s on the weekend before an U21 game

Sean Cavanagh was on Art and Eugeue's senior team but couldn't make Mickeys U21 squad

I dont recall that at all. He made his senior debut in the championship as a sub V Armagh but as far as i recall he played with the U21s every game as well. He certainly played in the U21 final that year, v Dublin.
The U21s always had first dibs on the players

Didnt realise that Ben Cullen was still eligible to play for the U20s this year. Article in IN today. Thats incredible progress, as he didnt feature for the minors in the 2021 u17 final

I do feel however that those players eligble for underage sides, should play with their own age group first and then hook up with the seniors second - a la Ruairi Canavan last year. In the past we've always been very clear as a county on this - i dont recall another player who essentially skipped a year at u20 or u21 to go straight to senior.

I enjoyed Top Gun as well. A guilty pleasure lol