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HTC won the All Ireland B in 2018.  They've been on an upward curve and that attracts some extra players as the MacRory incentive bites.  Fair play to them.  A lesson that anything is possible with hard work.

Agreed, insane pool of coaches within the school taking teams throughout.

Surprise Surprise, Tyrone school casts net a bit wider to attract grade A footballers. Are we saying this ambition us wrong? Heaven forbid an Antrim school would ever start thinking like this!

Perhaps just annoyed that Antrim loses it's grade A footballers to schools like Magherafelt and St Ronan's Lurgan.

Did the school with the 12 who moved from it offer a levels?

St Josephs in Coalisland dont offer A levels, no. Most would traditionally have headed onto Dungannon tech, or a grammer school such as the Academy

HTC schools football team is traditionally backboned by Cookstown, Kildress, Ardboe & the Rock clubs.

St Joes Coalisland don't offer A-Levels, HTC has always got the majority of these studenys along with the Academy Dungannon. HTC have been competing well in Macrory since 2018 so they have been progressively getting better. No players from South Derry kicked a ball for them in the final just to add.

Greencastle go up, docked some points (say -6) to start the season.

Chairman. Secretary. manager and player all to be suspended

Seems a bit harsh suspending the player, he didn't put himself on

He togged himself out

Can't believe S T would have put him on, for an experienced man it's a ludricrous judgement call on his behalf.

My team for sun
Charlie , Finn, Ryan, Darren, Anto Doc, McP, Mooney, Ward, Odhran, Barry, Kerr, Shealan, Jerome, Corey, Gilly

Loads of pace and defense steadier

No chance of kilcoo players featuring this weekend surely.

when you mean illegal, were they players from other counties or clubs? Can you be more precise, thanks.

One underage player is thought to have featured numerous time through the league.

Don't actually think I've spoken to anyone who is keen on this rule. For me it changes the game too much. Free flowing game, ball goes in, mark is called, entire game stops. I'm interested to see what the percentages are like for 'for' and 'against' and if anyone is happy with the rule, why?

Would be for it as a player, extra dimension to attacks, doesn't have to come down from the clouds. Majority of players went through a bad run of defensive football that is now transitioning back to expansive football. Encourages man to man battle inside rather than 15 men camped inside the scoring zone.

Armagh people are not getting carried away, although a few of them were wrestled to the ground.

January/February or not, Armagh deserve alot more credit than they have received to date. Too much said about conditioning rather than the brand of football. Continually kicking the ball in with quality reserves alot of energy, maybe that's the reason for looking so fit.

Congratulations to Steelstown. Massive achievement for the club.

Well done to Steelstown. Great for GAA in the city. Wonder if many will be on the Derry panel after that. I'd say they should do well at senior football and at the least be able to hold their own.

Probably Ben and Donncha. Cant see anyone else at the minute

Mcmonagle seems a hell of a talent

Yeah undoubted, updated my post there

He play any soccer, shows it in his play if he does, joy to watch

Congratulations to Steelstown. Massive achievement for the club.

Well done to Steelstown. Great for GAA in the city. Wonder if many will be on the Derry panel after that. I'd say they should do well at senior football and at the least be able to hold their own.

Probably Ben and Donncha. Cant see anyone else at the minute

Mcmonagle seems a hell of a talent

Canavan is a PE teacher/ director of Sport

[Colleges sh1te to before Christmas.]

Move that Colleges sh1te to before Christmas.
Football/Hurling is an activity for Club and County teams, its only a side issue in 3rd level Education entities.

Welcome to the board James Horan

Has anyone ever looked into the fact that half the Kilcoo team aren't suffering from long term head injuries?

Re-watched the match over, 4 times they went down clutching their face when not touched.

Harps back to OHanlon doing the same against Cross few years back. Scored a free. Goaded cross player, shouldered then dived and rolled all over the ground.

Not doing anything anyone else isnt, what about the barrs man that scored the goal...just give them the credit they deserve.

[Glass could do with a natural midfield partner aswell, and possibly a back up aswell if Glass gets injured. McFaul is brilliant, but not a natural midfielder at county level. Would be great to be able to utilise McFaul in the half forward line & the likes of McKinless, Tad, CD & other chipping in with the odd point from defence.]

Gallagher is exactly what Derry needed when he came in & over the next year or 2. He will sort the culture, sort the crap, get a consistent panel, give game time to players who will play 10+ years of county football (Murray & Downey) & stop the revolving door.

The football he plays will always limit Derry, however people need to be realistic about Derry over the next couple of years. They shouldn't be winning Ulster titles & are probably a Divison 2 team at present, if Gallagher gets them to Division 1 in the next couple of years he's done some job. I think it'll be the next Derry manager who realistically should be looking at Ulsters etc.

Derry still lacking the forwards for me. McGuigan is the talisman but IMO he still gets kept fairly quiet a lot in county football (maybe because teams can double up on him because of the lack of threat elsewhere) Also physically small up front. Laughlin looks like a great talent & is motoring well however will take a couple of years to really get into his stride. Benny is a work horse but not a big scoring threat at county level, more of an industrious footballer for Derry. Niall Toner is a whippet but quite small, Paul Cassidy looks to have gone up a level but is also very slight. Niall Loughlin was quiet on Saturday, finished off a good team move and is a great option for frees. Derry are going to need to get at least 3 scoring forwards on to the pitch to start challenging bigger teams.  Lachlan could get there in a couple of years, as could Paul Cassidy potentially. Niall Loughlin also has the ability to step up and add more scores to his game.

Glass could do with a natural midfield partner aswell, and possibly a back up aswell if Glass gets injured. McFaul is brilliant, but not a natural midfielder at county level. Would be great to be able to utilise McFaul in the half forward line & the likes of McKinless, Tad, CD & other chipping in with the odd point from defence.

What are your options here though? If pushing McFaul to Half Forward it's probably Tad or E Bradley? Maybe Oisin McWilliams? No real obvious answer for me. I'd like to see McKinless kept at 6.
I'd be content with the named starting defense against Down come championship to be honest. Might get slated for this and i'm actually a fan of how they play but one thing I wasn't sure of with Tad at half back was the tackling against a good opposition forward (same applied to Ethan D too). Whilst appreciating what they offer from there on the ball i'd rather see them at Half Forward.

Glass mf isn't big enough for the top end of football. None of the options are. l was really surprised he didn't take a look at Tohil at mf in the Mc kenna cup. If I know how Mc Faul can function at mf you can bet Gallagher does to, so what did he/we gain. 6:5 and mobile, he had nothing to loose by checking it out. Opportunity lost

To question Glass' ability to play midfield at the top level is laughable, as for Tohill glad he hasnt been deemed to get a league place as it's not warranted. If he impresses at club consistently so be it but not near the level.

Word  spreading of may start for club leagues, anyone well informed here likewise?