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Donegal 1-8 Tyrone 1-3 at half time. Tyrone faded after a decent start, were 1-2 to 0-2 up early on. McGee and C.McGinley off injured.

Well done Greencastle...big night for ziggy in Dublin tonight

I don't mind admitting it people, but my nerves are shot tonight!

Hopefully I'll have plenty of good photos for the website next week.

All the best to Greencastle and hope you have a good day ziggy.

Lets not confuse a'heroic' rearguard action against an average Mil;an side with us suddenly being world beaters.

I didnt use the word heroic or say Celtic were world beaters or anything near that. It was though a decent effort and a good solid European campaign when Celtic went further in the Champions League than they ever had before. To slate the team like you did shows a lack of understanding of Celtic's situation and their standing in the European game.

One mistake Strachan did make the other night was not getting Riordan on...a player who can pose the same threat down the left as McGeady but also pop up with a goal out of nothing. A player who has not been a proper chance to shine with Celtic so far.

WGS has moulded a team that believes only in square /  backwards passing and hoofing long balls up front in random directions and which has enjoyed the luck of a million black cats, wearing rabbits feet sleeping under horseshoes adn the bonus of the worst Rankers team in decades.

For what it's worth........tonight

Boruc: once again our best player by a country mile
Naylor: good in places but still made way too many misplaced punts upfield. Last ditch tackling seemed to be interpreted as classy defending by pundits.
O'Dea: Solid
Bombscare: usual, solid and unskilfull
Telfer: usual shite self
Naka: where was he, did he miss the plane?
Lemon and Slow: back, back, sideways, back, lose ball -now repeat. Truly awful the both of them
Jarosik: how he looked good in prem is beyond me. A clown.
McGeady: tried at least, only threat we had all night
JVoH: not at races, won little in air, seemed to have very poor positioning (although this could be down to the STOOPID long balls we played from the back)

Subs:
Tommy G: played very well, only urgency in CM all night. Looked a bette forward in 20min than Miller has all season.
Beattie: last touch summed it up. Ball to feet in box - he falls over and ball ends up over goal line to kill game. Awful player.A bigger clown than Jiri even.
Miller: Time to go Kenny

Bizzare stuff given Celtic were up against one of Europe's superpowers and a team who are on a different level in terms of quality of player and finance. Celtic were never going to go to the San Siro and boss the game but they did a good job of keeping it tight and threatening on the break. They should have had a penalty and crucial away goal in the first 5 minutes too and had another good shout later on.
Despite inheriting an aging team and a shrinking budget Strachan has taken the team further in the CL than MON ever did...you would think he deserves a bit of praise

As for your review of each player I find a lot of them unbelievable. Naylor had an excellent game and is one hell of a buy at £600k. Telfer might not be a fans favourite but got the job done and calling McManus "bombscare" is crazy...did well and led a defence which held a clean sheet in the San Siro over the 90mins - bombscare? Sno also did well and is another cracking bargain from Strachan. VoH wasnt match fit and playing as a lone striker...what were you expecting from him? Good shift in the circumstances. And was it not for Kenny Miller's outstanding showing against Benfica you would have been out of the competition long ago....plus his performances for Scotland against Italy and Germany have shown he can do it against the best defenders.

You need to be a bit more realistic.

Anyone at today's hurling game folks? Were the Tír Eoghain hurlers that good (2-23), Liatroim that bad (1-09), or a mixture of both?

Yeah it was indeed Cavan they were playing Good win for the hurlers today.

It annoys you boys because its true, celtic have little or no competition in scotland.
I am not here to wind anyone up, just tire of hearing lads on about the great celtic and my cousin saying they would beat any team in the world.Its great and all being a big fish in a small pond,but its a great wonder the do not join the epl, i suppose that would not suit a team that knows it will be champion for 10 of the next 20 years or more.
I have nothing against celtic.They are no doubt a massive club but are definetly hamstrung in a third world league, the league of ireland is not far behind in terms of quality if the truth be told and only for the big 2 spl teams the thing would be just as big a joke.

I leave it at that and let you get all pissed off, the truth hurts.

Celtic have no competition in Scotland yet they have been knocked out the CIS Cup and were a minute away from going out of the Scottish Cup last week....looks like competition to me. You say they will be champions for 10 of the 20 seasons so presumably somebody else is going to win the other 10, isnt that competition ?

As for you saying the SPL is a joke other than the old firm I doubt you have a clue what youre talking about, there are plenty of good players and good teams outside the old firm (which is why the old firm are always raiding the other teams for players).

I fear both you and your cousin are talking a load of rafael scheidt.

Its a big fish in a small pond and of course they win every weekend and are deemed to be miracle players, put them into the premiership and see how heroic they are.
How many other teams apart from celtic or the other great team rangers have won the spl in the last 25 years?
Inverness and co really have little hope inside the next 25 making the spl a two horse race at best which really is not competition and is very boring!I understand this sounds insulting but is not meant to be, what would celtic fans think of some real competition in the spl?

How many teams can win the English Premiership though? Its a two horse race this year and realistically only 1 of Chelsea, Man Utd, Arsenal (and maybe Liverpool) look like contenders for the forseeable future. The SPL has had two championships go down to the last minute of the last game in the last few years, I dont think people found that too boring Ok its not the greatest league but neither is it bad as some people suggest. The same way the EPL is a decent league but nowhere as good as some people suggest.

St Johnstone in the semi-final off the Scottish cup, only a hardened bluenose wouldn't say that this is SC number 34 for the Bhoys...! 

Did you see the Perth farmers beating Motherwell on Wednesday night?? 2-1 was no reflection on their dominance...they should have won by 4 or 5. And thats them played 5 SPL teams this season and only been beaten once (by Hibs in extra time after outplaying them). So while Celtic are clear favourites I wouldnt write off the rest yet..St.Johnstone could be awkward as could Hibs if they end up in the final!

A month since the last post on the Neighbours thread - wtf is going on around here I thought this thread would be red hot after todays episode with Neighbours thread favourite Dr Karl hanging up his stethoscope Thats going to a leave a massive hole in the local health service...this man did everything for him. What next for Kaal??

Also been good to say Sergeant Steiger taking a greater role in the show in recent weeks. I liked the way he dealt with the dodgy garage owner recently, a good firm hand

Jaysus the meejda can be arseholes at times like this. We all know hyperbole sells tomorrows fishwrappers but some of these comments are staggeringly poor.

As far as I can remember in the last 2 years alone (where the majority of this team were playing together) Tyrone managed to play catch up quite well:

- against Dublin under lights 2007
- against Dublin in the Championship 2005
- against Monaghhan in the championship 2005
- against Kerry in the AIF 2005
- against Armagh in the AI SF 2005

so how we have 'coped poorly' on the 'odd occasion' is truly beyond me.

Totally agree, go a year or two further back and you could add being 9 points behind against Down in Ulster Final in 2003 and being 8 or 9 behind (I think) against Galways in the league semi in 2004 and coming back to level both games. Turning games around from a losing position has been one of the hallmarks of Mickey Harte's Tyrone....a really flawed piece of analysis by Eugene McGee there. As for his kiss off line "If it happened once, it can happen again and that's the biggest worry for Tyrone who, despite the undoubted pool of talent at their disposal, still, like most of the top teams, rely on a handful of key men playing well to generate success". You dont say

7 wins and 1 defeat so far this year and a huge number of players tried over those matches....things look ok for February to me.

after another dodgy looking team selection by Strachan, Celtic will be mightily relieved to have escaped with a win yesterday.
Highlight of the day was young Cavan lad and ex-Gaa footballer - Cillian Sheridan, actually being brought on and teeing up the winner for Kenny Miller.

In fairness to Miller he still had a fair bit to do after Sheridan laid the ball off to him! Hopefully Miller will get a confidence boost from that and go on a wee run of goals...not been the best time for him with goal drought, teeth problems and running into linesmen

The better team probably lost yesterday but Celtic had the mental strength to turn it around late and ICT lacked the mental strength to get over the finishing line.

I agree with TYP that rugby is a growing competitor for players,spectators and sponsorship,however I don't think the games in Croke Park are really that influential. The hype would have been massive regardless of where the games were played, we have a team that can compete with the best in the world and Irish people always pile onto any sporting bandwagon.Steve Collins,Barry McGuigan,Sonia O'Sullivan,Michelle Smith,the soccer team under Charlton, when these (and some others) were at the peak of their careers, able to beat the best in the world their exploits crossed all bounderies, we all became passionate swimming or athletics fans but when they faded we dropped our interest in those sports immediately.

Exactly, these things come in cycles and at the moment Ireland has a great team. Wouldnt matter where they were playing they would still get the same press (deservedly). In a few years the Irish team will drop back amongst the also runs. Same as soccer like darbo said. Through all that the GAA is a constant and will remain so. Enjoy the success of the rugby team and have the confidence not to see it as a threat to the GAA, its not. Indeed if anything the GAA come out looking like the winners, its down to them that yesterdays iconic game was played on Irish soil.

That too.

I'll say it again - If Dooher, Jordan, McGuigan, McMenamin etc (our 2005 team) are missing, it'll be no different to last year against full strength county teams with decent pedigree.

All this strong bench talk is crap. Maybe 1-2 outside of the 15 mainstays.

Hughes should've been on earlier. Move Ger to CHF. Put Mulligan beside O'Neill.

I would say that the bench is going to be stronger this year because passengers like Devlin, Meenan, Bradley etc will be replaced by up and coming players with talent and a desire to prove themselves. Youre right though, we will need the big guns fit to make a real challenge for Sam. Would also prefer to see Mugsy in the full forward line but he wont be playing CHF all season anyway.

Wee reality check at this point might be no bad thing anyway.

I think he made the right choice.
I doubt if he would have been getting any guaranteed regular first team football with Celtic either.
Maybe in the past couple of weeks as they have had a bit of an inj/suspension crisis with their strikers
but Stokes is only a lad and has a LOT to learn.

Would go along with that but I felt he would have better off giving it another 6 months at Falkirk. He was getting a regular game there at a decent standard and might well have played in a cup final. Could then have gone back to Arsenal at the end of the season and weighed up his options.

As for tonight Milan arent going that well and could be vulnerable. Celtic's defence a potential worry but in the past people like Kennedy and McManus have risen to the occasion so hopefully O' Dea will do likewise, he's looked decent enough in his SPL outings. Shame Miller is a bit out of sorts at the minute, his harrying game can really upset European centre defenders who are used to loads of time on the ball (ie his performances for Scotland against Italy and for Celtic against Benfica). Despite his recent poor form he might be a decent call to partner Venegoor of Hesselink or at least get the last half hour.

Some of the Celtic fans on here might enjoy this; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQTPt-tBbp0