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#1
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 24, 2024, 07:57:58 PM
Playing a full strength Dublin team
With no
Hampsey
McKernan
Harte
Cormac Quinn
Meyler
Burns
Kilpatrick
Darragh Canavan
O'Donnell
Ciaran Daly ( one of our best players this season)
Is pretty much football death wish
#2
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 17, 2024, 11:43:31 AM
A good league campaign, should stay in Div 1 - blooded a lot of new players, got some of the older players game time. If they can get a full squad available it's a group capable of winning an All Ireland.
They had some serious players missing last night - Hampsey,McGeary,  Kennedy, off the pitch in the last ten mins with the likes of McKernan, Harte, Kilpatrick all out along with the other longer terms such as Meyler and Burns. If they could get everyone back in the next few weeks - would be a very strong squad
#3
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
March 03, 2024, 11:25:06 PM
If the beat Monaghan will most likely be safe. If they stay in division 1 it will have been a great league
Blooded a lot of new players - almost someone new every week Conal Devlin, Tarlach Quinn, Seanie O Donnell, Ciaran Daly,Aidan Clarke, Joe Oguz, Aodhan Donaghy have all done well, others have had game time such as Lórcan McGarrity, David Mulgrew, Cormac Donnelly,  Ruairi Canavan, Michael McGleenan, Conor Cush to mixed success. But if they stay up with a win v Monaghan then it was a pretty good league.
Add in your McGeary, Burns, Meyler, Mattie Donnelly, Cathal McShane all to come back into contention - then there could be a very competitive squad come  championship. If they are ever all available.
#4
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2024
February 18, 2024, 05:37:42 PM
Tyrone have 5 or 6 All Star players missing - Meyler, Burns, McCurry, McShane, Mattie Donnelly, McGeary (latter played 15 mins) so they are missing a few players. Should improve when they have full squad available
#5
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
February 18, 2024, 05:34:30 PM
Tyrone were missing a good few as well to be fair- McCurry, McShane, Meyler, M Donnelly to name a few. Daragh Canavan playing midweek didn't help either.

Quote from: Quarterbackk on February 18, 2024, 04:36:36 PMAnd to think Galway were without Shane Walsh, Cillian Mc Daid and Damian Comer.   :-[
#6
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
February 17, 2024, 04:28:26 PM
Minor semi finals today - mad how long those lads had to wait to play those games. Cookstown seem to be on the rise a bit, they were beat in grade 1 u16 final earlier this year, they were in the grade 2 minor final last year, now grade 1 final, all their teams seem to be playing in grade 1. Donaghmore though should be the best team in the county at that age group.
#7
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
February 05, 2024, 07:00:03 AM
A Tyrone team missing P Harte, Kilpatrick ,Meyler,McGeary,M Donnelly, Burns,C Quinn,McShane, against a full strength Derry team. Thats about 7 former All Stars with bags of experience.
Although the young lads such as O'Donnell, Clarke and Daly have done very well, and these older guys may not all be starters anymore - it would sure have made some difference if they were all available. I mean take that amount of players out of the Derry squad and team and see how they would do.will be in a good place when get them all back
#8
GAA Discussion / Re: JP splashes the cash!
December 15, 2023, 10:09:39 AM
The £1million would be much better used by county boards rather than being allocated to clubs. It becomes far too diluted - like if a club gets say £4k it's not really going to make a massive difference over the next few years in the grand scheme of things and most of it will fall into the pockets of outside managers in brown envelopes.
But if the county board used one million to say  employ coaches in schools or clubs or even to improve facilities then  it would be money much better spent
#9
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
December 05, 2023, 10:57:05 PM
Seems a great idea in theory as it gets players on edge of squad game time , but the reality of it might not be so straight forward ( as has been the case in Down).
I take it that would be the end of the starred game system then?, and now you could have a club with two or three county men playing against another who have the same but they are unavailable, so for example Edendork (3 named in squad) v a club with two or three players not named by management . At least the started game was a relatively fair system.
Also they only miss about 4 or 5 games a season so it's not really gonna change things that much fundamentally . As well as this does the county player train with the club during the week & the county( injury) or just rock up for the club game on Friday night with no training all week.  I think it could get messy.
Is it not supposed to be a split season - this the reason we play the AI final in July now instead of in September.

Quote from: marty34 on December 05, 2023, 10:28:15 PM
Quote from: square_ball on December 05, 2023, 09:37:21 PMInteresting recommendation at the AGM from the county committee looking players not in the match day squad to be released to play for their clubs.

That's a fair enough agreement I think.

Only 20 lads can play.  A panel has what, 30 lads?

Let them go and play club games on a game by game basis.
#10
GAA Discussion / Re: Joe Brolly
October 04, 2023, 08:16:04 AM
Gilroy talking about paid coaches and how they are a blight on the game is ironic - much of the Dublin success is down to paid coaches. They have a paid GPO coach in every club or in some clubs three or four. Whilst in other counties coaching is down to volunteerism, which means you get varying degrees of success from year to year. What really  is the difference between this and a paid coach at senior level such as Harte and Devlin - except it's done above board in terms of payment.
#11
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
August 08, 2023, 11:22:20 AM
Firstly they are not mercenaries so can't see them ever taking clubs apart from their own.
PD has delivered Ulster titles and AI titles in the last number of years at u20 level - is it 3 Ulster and 1 Al title?
The senior management have delivered AI titles at senior and u21 level.
One of the management has captained Tyrone to two All Irelands and managed them to one. He has been directly involved in all 4 senior titles. Is there many people can say that in and around the club scene?

So yeah I'd say they would be fairly qualified to get a club  job alright, they have won a lot more than many of the brown envelope crew on the circuit.

Quote from: Bring back club football on August 07, 2023, 10:37:50 PM
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Quote from: time ticking away on August 07, 2023, 03:59:41 PM
Is Gerry Donnelly staying with the u17s ?

Gerard Donnelly stepped down from the U17 post. A pity as him and Hetherington are talented coaches
I wonder did they have one eye on the U20 job when they stepped down though?

This is actually incorrect. Gerry said his term was up to the press and they reported it wrong. He has sought and years and will get it

He has taken over at Eskra

Would these boys get a top club job in Tyrone?

Would Paul Devlin get a top club job in Tyrone?
#12
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
August 07, 2023, 08:34:25 PM
McGeeney back in Armagh
10 years - no Ulster title & no All Ireland
Not even a semi final
#13
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and Hurling
August 07, 2023, 03:21:14 PM
Plenty of others  seem happy enough for an AI winning management team to remain in place with a few tweeks in backroom. They won more in one year than MOR won in ten years at inter county level.
#14
Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and Hurling
August 02, 2023, 07:43:38 AM
Think they refused to play the week after the incident - but that fixture could easily be fixed now
#15
Think any management team that delivered AI at u21 and senior level deserves their chance to rebuild
But ultimately it doesn't really matter what us armchair pundits think really