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Brilliant from Anto Cacace. What a warrior.

That performance from Cacace was right up there with the best we've seen from an Irish boxer. Delighted to see it. Always been one step forward 2 steps back with his career. The video of Frampton cheering him on was brilliant.

I think a lot of you lads are judging the overall fight on that 1 round in the 9th and then thinking Usyk should be winning comfortably. Looking at those scorecards they look fair enough imo. Fury had plenty of success in the middle rounds, Usyk done well at the start and end and then a few rounds hard enough to score.

Carl Frampton had it 6 rounds each and then with the knockdown Usyk wins 114-113. Though I agree with the above it Fury could/should have been stopped by the ref in the 9th. Seen fights stopped for less.

Fury was edging the fight until that 9th round. After that it was all Usyk.

Fury in complete control now. I can't see how Usyk turns this around at this stage.

 

Mmmm yeah about that 

Fury in complete control now. I can't see how Usyk turns this around at this stage.

Thought Hartes comments after the game were a disgrace. Said he didn't see mckinless incident , but then proceeded to accuse Comer of making a meal of it and theatrics.
It was as  blatant a red card as seen at a game & it more or less ended Comers involvement in the game. McKinless deserves a lengthy ban for it

TG4 showed Paul Devlin a video of McHughs red card in the U20s last week straight after the game. GAA GO should have done the same to Harte and see if he still came out with that dung.

City's PL form since the turn of the year:

P18 W15 D3 L0

Regular as clockwork.

Draws with Liverpool and Arsenal. Not sure on the other.

1-1 with Chelsea at home. 


Arsenal will likely look back on that draw against City now, a match they played defensive in and never really pushed for the win.

Dont agree with that any team will take a point at City before game starts bad losses to Fulham and Villa are what has put them in this position. May not be over though, the Aguerooo moment City needed to win against a rank bad QPR team and tried their best to make a meal of it.  West Ham probably owe it to Moyes to put in a performance last day and they do have some quality at top end of pitch.

They also made hard work of it 2 years ago when they were 2-0 down against Aston Villa.

One for you Mayo ones - whats the deal with Stephen Coen? From watching Mayo over the years I can't see what he brings to the Mayo team and for an average player imo, he seems to play every single game.

Crazy decision by the ccc last night to delay the leagues. The poor club player is getting shafted all the time

Only division 1 or division 2 also?

Division 1.
Complaints coming in about Eglish and Donaghmore being starred fixtures despite them having no county men anymore as McGleenan, Cush and Quinn have left the panel. Killyclogher also might become an issue if some of their U20s are called up after Sunday's final.

Other than maybe with the goalkeeper situation, I really don't see the benefits of calling in any u20s at this stage of the senior season. They done the same with the 2022 winning team when they called a few up and only in pure desperation against Armagh that year, Canavan and McGleenan got a few minutes.

Funny enough I did see Lorcan Quinn was playing a bit of soccer so was wondering whether that was with management blessing. Who is our back up keeper now?

Armagh club leagues round 13 is 26th July and round 14 (final round) is 2nd August. Championship will be towards end of August. What are club players doing from March until Tyrone are out apart from playing 5 league games?

I see they had some Jim Devlin cup competition running for seniors some slog for non county players to keep them interested without any meaningful games to do late in year.

Yeah Jim Devlin cup so teams either got 1, 2 or 3 games in that. I don't think many entered the Ulster league either. I'm sure the players have been in the gym since Christmas and then whenever pitch sessions started plus friendlies etc. I see last night the league has been put back a week so now starting on 31st May. It would have been a long slog to the start of the league.

No need to be starting training so early then when league doesn't begin until mid/end of May

Brown envelopes start when the training starts... Cash flow

The S&C coach and the nutritionist and physios all need their money too. Plus if themmuns down the road are out training then we need to be out training too. I don't know how strenuous the training has been the last few months so maybe its a case of just keeping things ticking over.

Armagh club leagues round 13 is 26th July and round 14 (final round) is 2nd August. Championship will be towards end of August. What are club players doing from March until Tyrone are out apart from playing 5 league games?

I see they had some Jim Devlin cup competition running for seniors some slog for non county players to keep them interested without any meaningful games to do late in year.

Yeah Jim Devlin cup so teams either got 1, 2 or 3 games in that. I don't think many entered the Ulster league either. I'm sure the players have been in the gym since Christmas and then whenever pitch sessions started plus friendlies etc. I see last night the league has been put back a week so now starting on 31st May. It would have been a long slog to the start of the league.

Not sure the 'split season' has left things any different or better in Tyrone. Senior league starts next weekend. Play 5 starred games without county players. The remaining 10 league games are played with county players when Tyrone are out. Then the championship and if players are involved in clubs with league or relegation play offs then you'll not be done until the end of November.

Take Michael McKernan for example. He played in the first round of the McKenna Cup on 6th January 2023 and his season with Coalisland ended on 19th November 2023. He was back out again on 7th January 2024 for the McKenna Cup.

Cavanagh said "The GAA are one of the richest organisations in the world" which is what Burns was responding to. Cavanagh hadn't backtracked at that point.

Under the table payments is a totally different issue to whether ot not the GAA are rich.

Burns was 100% right to go on the radio yesterday. Its great to have a president who will defend the GAA. Can you imagine that disaster Larry McCarthy doing the same thing?

And I would imagine most 'Tyronies' would agree or certainly the ones I talk to - Cavanagh was one of our best ever players but as a pundit he is absolutely shocking whether he is talkign about on or off the field issues.

Burns slid in to catch the ball with a Donegal player about to come in and tackle him. I think he called the mark to give himself a few seconds to look at his options.

Also I don't think Burns would have had that kick in his locker.