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So he wanted to take a year off from winning four in a row and achieving something never done by any manager in Ballinderry, to go to Ardboe  lol Got it now

He had to be begged to stay on for his '3 in a row' year and made it clear it would be his last.
However you seem to know more than us Ballinderry folk

What a load of shit.

+1  never heard as much crap in my life.
Good luck to Martin in his new role.  Perhaps getting this group of players 2/3 years too late but time will tell. He was good at blooding young players onto the Ballinderry teams so could do likewise with the recent successful Ardboe minor teams.

[,i work with one]

Bikers are a very rare breed,i work with one.I suppose saying that racing to them is what gaa is to me but it goes way beyond that but its very hard not to have massive respect for them.

Does he have young children? if so I personally think that he is being very selfish. Every time he gets on his bike to race, he is risking leaving his children with no father. I find that very hard to comprehend.

Is big Danny McNulty injured. He didn't appear to play against Dromore or in the u21 game (possibly overage)
I thought he had the potential to play full forward for Tyrone.

But sure they only had one week to prepare..... oh wait, they had 10

[Nice facilities wins you feck all. Eg Ballinderry!]

somebody must take a stand now if the management are getting financial reward the county board should ask for results not just a lovely training camp like owe beg. Nice facilities wins you feck all. Eg Ballinderry!

WTF are you on about?

Lol ... don't be taking that shit Gerry!!!

if he had used Screen as the example I could have understood

[Nice facilities wins you feck all. Eg Ballinderry!]

somebody must take a stand now if the management are getting financial reward the county board should ask for results not just a lovely training camp like owe beg. Nice facilities wins you feck all. Eg Ballinderry!

WTF are you on about?  We are current Ulster Champs and opening new facilities this weekend. Sort of blows your theory out of the water

What sort of shape was the Omagh pitch in last night?  Hosting the Ulster Club final on Sunday.

Disappointing for our neighbours Ardboe last night. Thats 2 cruel final defeats in the last few years. However their future looks bright.

I see wee Joey is stoking the fire before Sunday!


Father won't attend Ulster club game over abuse
31 October 2013

The father of a Crossmaglen player that was racially abused during last December's Ulster club final against Kilcoo has said he won't be attending the two clubs' latest encounter this coming Sunday on a point of principle.

Following a complaint from Crossmaglen's Aaron Cunningham on the matter, the Ulster Council banned one Kilcoo supporter for life and issued a four-month ban to Kilcoo player Aidan Branagan.

Both clubs have since expressed their desire to put the issue to bed, but Cunningham's father, Joey, has stated that he doesn't feel the punishment was appropriate. A hearings committee imposed a four-month suspension on Branagan, which was reduced from an original proposal of six months.

"I won't go to the game," Cunningham told The Irish Times. "Definitely not. Just out of principle. I know that if somebody said something to my son again, I know what would happen. I definitely won't go. I couldn't look at them. That's the truth.

"Speaking to people in their club, they promised to do this, that and the other and they went and did the opposite. I did the right thing by them - I could have torn that club to bits if I had wanted to.

"But I didn't want to do that because there's an awful lot of good people there in that club and they wouldn't have deserved it. I know some of them very, very well. And, to be honest, they let me down and they let my son down."

As an Irish League soccer player for Portadown in the 1980s, Cunningham found himself on the receiving end of racial abuse several times and insists the whole affair from the two teams' last meeting will keep him away from Newry this Sunday.

"We didn't get satisfaction but it is what it is," he said. "The GAA dealt with it the best way they could and there's nothing more to be said. It's done and dusted, you know? That's the way it is. I don't dwell on it and I can't think about it because you just have to move on. They just showed themselves for what they are and people can make their own minds up.

"I choose to let the GAA deal with it. I just wanted them to sort it out. But as far as I'm concerned, that's life. What do you do? You live and you learn. I'm not going to go through my whole life dwelling on it or thinking about it. I'm honestly not. Aaron turned the other cheek. Cross won the match and that's the most important thing.

"But at the end of the day, I can choose to be somewhere or not to be somewhere. I'm choosing not to be there because of the people involved. I really don't have any love for them. And I don't want it to turn into a circus either."

[Does R Scullion still play? What about McGeehan?]

This was the teams that started that day

BALLINDERRY: S Cassidy; E Anderson, E Wilson, J Martin; P McIvor, C Rocks, K Forbes; J Devlin, A Devlin (0-1); M Devlin, R Scullion (1-5, 0-3 frees), D McGuckin; F Bell (1-1), G McGeehan (0-1), T Martin. Subs: R Wilkinson for M Devlin (58 mins), C Devlin for Martin, inj (61 mins).

SCOTSTOWN: S Gilheaney; K Traenor, K Hughes (0-1), M McPhillips; P Sheehan, D McArdle, M Corrigan; G Turley, P O'Hara; S Carey, M Traenor, D Heaphey; P Sherlock (2-0), A McCarey (0-5, 0-2 frees), C Caulfield. Subs: D McCague (0-1) for Sheehan (19 mins).

Aaron McCarey is with Wolves now.

Ballinderry will have 2 from that team starting on sunday. Aaron Devlin and Dermot McGuckin

Does R Scullion still play?  What about McGeehan?

Ryan Scullion is in Austrailia. McGeehan hasnt played in a couple of years. Had various injuries I think

This was the teams that started that day

BALLINDERRY: S Cassidy; E Anderson, E Wilson, J Martin; P McIvor, C Rocks, K Forbes; J Devlin, A Devlin (0-1); M Devlin, R Scullion (1-5, 0-3 frees), D McGuckin; F Bell (1-1), G McGeehan (0-1), T Martin. Subs: R Wilkinson for M Devlin (58 mins), C Devlin for Martin, inj (61 mins).

SCOTSTOWN: S Gilheaney; K Traenor, K Hughes (0-1), M McPhillips; P Sheehan, D McArdle, M Corrigan; G Turley, P O'Hara; S Carey, M Traenor, D Heaphey; P Sherlock (2-0), A McCarey (0-5, 0-2 frees), C Caulfield. Subs: D McCague (0-1) for Sheehan (19 mins).

Aaron McCarey is with Wolves now.

Ballinderry will have 2 from that team starting on sunday. Aaron Devlin and Dermot McGuckin

[a small club, with a small catchment]

The lack of Tyrone success at Ulster and All Ireland Senior Club level is down to the fact that no Tyrone Club team has had a core group of 6-7 top players at a given time. If you look through the Tyrone senior team panel over the past 15 years, you'll see that there are a huge number of clubs represented on the panel right down to Junior level - this is a very healthy thing - no player in Tyrone is overlooked if they are good enough - no matter how Junior or unfashionable the club. 15+ clubs are represented on the county panel regularly. It has been years since there's been a Tyrone panel without junior players. (McConnell, Gallagher, McCrossan, McGee, Gourley, Cassidy for example)
I think Moy are a great example of this. In the last 15 years they've had County players in Jordan, the Cavanaghs, Ryan Mellon and Colly Holmes. You'd expect a team with those players to have competed at Ulster and All Ireland level - unfortunately the Moy team are way, way off that pace and are flirting with relegation again because it's a small club, with a small catchment and they just don't have the players. In a 15 man sport, one or two players can't carry a team every week.

I don't think Tyrone football is in crisis at all. I love the fact that it is so competitive at all levels and that every player has a chance to represent their county if they are good enough.

I think that is it in a nut shell. The likes of Ballinderry & Cross have 3rds teams indicating a large panel of players to choose from. Only 1 club in Tyrone has a 3rd team.

Tyrone clubs do not do well in Ulster as they do not have the pool of players to pick from.

Ballinderry dont have a 3rds team and had to use a lot of minors in our reserves this year.

[When was the last time it was done in Derry?]

The last time was Carrickmore 77-79. They had a chance to emulate it but lost in a replay in 2006 to Errigal Ciaran. In my opinion that team never recovered from it. It was a massive disappointment as most of them had their medals but had grown up hearing about the 3 in a row teams.
When was the last time it was done in Derry?

Ballinderry '11/'12/'13
Bellaghy  '98/'99/'00
Ballinderry '80/'81/'82

Bellaghy also done in the 60s, not sure which years

Looking forward to the Tyrone final on Sunday as we will be playing the winners the following Sunday in Ulster. I presume if it finishes a draw extra time will be played.

Looks like Clonoe are warm favourites, but surely Carrickmore wil be hungry for this one, not having won it since 2005.

When was the last time a team won 3 in a row Tyrone senior C'ships?

Disappointing result today. Didn't really get going for whatever reasons. Congrats to Errigal, great club and deserved it on the day.