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Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and...

Last post by statto - Today at 08:23:54 AM

Michael O'Neill must be putting in serious shifts in training

How this lad gets lining out at 11 for Tyrone is a mystery don't see what he brings to the table. 

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Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and...

Last post by statto - Today at 08:22:16 AM

Did anyone really think we could beat donegal tonight.  Seriously.  We have better players but vast difference on the sideline.  My god

They were in good positions to win against them 6 weeks ago twice so I would presume so. 

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Tyrone / Re: Tyrone County Football and...

Last post by King of the dingos - Today at 08:16:44 AM

Praying shea o'hair starts on Sunday. Brings more to the table in terms of taking men on, breaking lines etc. than the current crop of wing backs/forwards that dooher employs - cullen, o'donnell, devlin etc. All seem to play backwards nearly.

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Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling

Last post by Milltown Row2 - Today at 08:04:57 AM

Antrim need to look at having consistency away from home, it's like we throw the towel in before the ref throws the ball in.

The point with looking at Dublin is to say that's our target, we ain't reaching the Limericks Corks and Kilkenny's levels but if we creep that bit closer each year we can start to be competitive.

Antrim are in a great position because of our senior club league. It's managed to produce higher standard of players at senior level whereas at juvenile level we are lacking, need to improve that but it's not the main reason we are a tier 2 team.

Beating Wexford and Carlow and putting ourselves in the mix heading to Dublin, albeit we were beat handy, was an improvement

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Antrim / Re: Antrim Hurling

Last post by marty34 - Today at 07:50:45 AM

How are we miles off Dublin? We drew with them in championship last year, snd they beat us by a point in the league this year. The championship result this year was very disappointing but hard to say we are miles off them.

Brendan, you are looking at Antrim seniors in isolation. Wrong way to look at it.

You need to look at the overall picture in Antrim hurling. By saying that Antrim drew with Dublin last year is all well and good but Antrim needed to beat Carlow yesterday to stay up.

By your take, Carlow drew with Kilkenny the other week so they're in a great position hurling wise. No they're not. They're now down to the Joe Mc Donagh again, but looking at the bigger picture, they've only about 4 or 5 senior hurling clubs. They've have a golden generation of players like Mouse Kavanagh, Chris Nolan and the Coadys. They've punched well above their weight this past few years. Will they get up again to Div. 1b again? I doubt it.

The key thing for Antrim is who's coming up from the Joe Mc Donagh for next year.  Offaly or Laois? I think they'll both be better than Carlow.  That will cause Antrim a big problem next year I think.  Gleeson has done a great job with Antrim. Is he there for another year?

Regarding Dublin, they were in the Leinster Minor and U20 Leinster Finals this year.  Granted both teams were beat by two very good teams in Kilkenny and Offaly respectively. Both of them will take stopping in the AI series.  Antrim are in Tier 2 of these competitions. As a matter of fact, their U20 weren't even in Tier 2 of Leinster at U20 level this year.

As I say, you need to stop looking at it in isolation and look at the bigger picture. 

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General discussion / Re: Russia invades Ukraine Feb...

Last post by Lubo Moravcik - Today at 07:34:36 AM

Well let's see, tactics over the years with various conflicts or wars have used indiscriminate bombs to create fear..

Doesn't mean it will impact change from the aggressors, in fact might have the opposite

You don't need to wait and see, Russia has been hitting civilians targets intentionally for over 2 years now. Including double tap strikes to kill first responders and those coming to help the wounded.

Ukraine hasn't adopted their 'strategy' and they aren't going to. In fact, every time Ukraine hits a high value Russian military target such as an airfield or ship watch out for the next shopping mall or marketplace packed with civilians to get obliterated. They think they can break the will of the Ukrainian civilian population, they are wrong.

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Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread

Last post by bannside - Today at 07:18:35 AM

The beauty of sport, unexpected things happen. Life goes on, and as 4 teams qualify for league semi finals this year, this weekends results have opened the door to an interesting second half of the league season.

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GAA Discussion / Re: Sam Maguire 2024 Group 4 -...

Last post by Armagh18 - Today at 05:27:09 AM

Either way will Harte spend more than 2 years at Derry? Is O'Rourke still over Glen at the minute?

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Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and H...

Last post by Goals_Will_Come - Today at 03:04:47 AM

Didn't know fleadhs and weddings were grounds to have games called off.

Ccc meeting with clubs in February it was agreed that clubs could request dates for weddings or special circumstances (golf classics etc) and county board would refix the game if the two clubs didn't come to an agreement on a refixture

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Tyrone / Re: Tyrone Club Football and H...

Last post by Goals_Will_Come - Today at 03:03:00 AM

Didn't know fleadhs and weddings were grounds to have games called off.

should have been played before the original fixture not weeks later. Somebody has pulled a fly one.

Or ye know, maybe, both teams and ccc agreed to change the game? Bit of co-operation with all parties. Rather than the nonsense of years gone by where clubs twisted with other clubs and forced players to miss weddings etc