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have been in the pits of despair after the county final 2 weeks ago because we were fully aware that this overrated and still unproven ballygawley team have not warranted the hype. 

This may change in the years ahead but it remains to be seen.  Thankfully the arrogant bunch have been brought down a peg or two with their pitiful performance yesterday. 

They'll probably reply to this when they hammer everyone to win the league on new years day after sticking to the iced lemon water all Christmas. 

Better get the cheque book out again because they haven't won a county title with a club man in charge for 13 years and counting!!!!

good to have you back. Some win for your u21's.
Errigal are filled with hot air

Grade 2 u21 championship for a club steeped in tradition like coalisland marvellous achievement. Just good to see white bap behaved himself in this u21 final.

have been in the pits of despair after the county final 2 weeks ago because we were fully aware that this overrated and still unproven ballygawley team have not warranted the hype. 

This may change in the years ahead but it remains to be seen.  Thankfully the arrogant bunch have been brought down a peg or two with their pitiful performance yesterday. 

They'll probably reply to this when they hammer everyone to win the league on new years day after sticking to the iced lemon water all Christmas. 

Better get the cheque book out again because they haven't won a county title with a club man in charge for 13 years and counting!!!!

Great to have you back localexpert you should never hide in defeat. Or maybe you forgot your password to the tintown account..

Just heard today we may not have heard the last from the Galbally and Loughmacrory antics from Saturday. Could be a 'few' men facing suspension should video evidence prove anything which is in the county boards hands now. It must have been tarra altogether going by reports 

Heard that too. Was a certain county underage player hungry during game

I have been keeping the powder dry but I'm back. Congrats to Trillick deserving champions. To everyone who gave me abuse about calling them potentially a great team you got your answer today. So the decade ends and three teams won two championships, Omagh coalisland and Trillick.

To moonshine and all of his vast parish... hard luck today. Got what use deserved for being extremely defensive. In reality errigal don't have the stomach for the big day as seen Today again. Petey Harte another big day and no where to be seen. On the bright side they have the league to walk now which should be easily done.


On a plus side he still has his betfair exchange account 👀

Your right tintown trillick way better team and simply outclassed us. But here one thing we wont do is hide after defeat like yourself or fall out we each other up in brackaville et al

Again congrats trillick awesome stuff whole championship streets ahead off EVERYONE

Not sure who fell out with who in coalisland but there was no club meeting called over any managers laying bets on themselves. Regroup moonshine enjoy the diluted orange tonight and big push for the league.

Il be on pints tintown diluted couldnt mask what I witnessed today. As for league I'd say you boys and your big bus will be pushing for it. Cant see errigal even bothering.

I have been keeping the powder dry but I'm back. Congrats to Trillick deserving champions. To everyone who gave me abuse about calling them potentially a great team you got your answer today. So the decade ends and three teams won two championships, Omagh coalisland and Trillick.

To moonshine and all of his vast parish... hard luck today. Got what use deserved for being extremely defensive. In reality errigal don't have the stomach for the big day as seen Today again. Petey Harte another big day and no where to be seen. On the bright side they have the league to walk now which should be easily done.

Should be the end of tiffy too. He will point to leagues but two finals waving of the white flags and out battled in carrickmore last year is a poor return for the pick they have.

On a plus side he still has his betfair exchange account 👀

Your right tintown trillick way better team and simply outclassed us. But here one thing we wont do is hide after defeat like yourself or fall out we each other up in brackaville et al

Again congrats trillick awesome stuff whole championship streets ahead off EVERYONE

Are Errigal or Trillick good enough to give ulster a rattle this year? Who's more likely to perform in ulster?

No bluesy. Both aren't near it, i have no idea how two teams, as bad as these two have found themselves in a county final, beyond me. Could be embarrassing to watch one of them in Ulster.

Think Coalisland would've showed well in ulster this year after Ladecima season last year.

Pearse blue no chance they wouldn't have the discipline to progress in ulster. You can get away with their nonsense in Tyrone but not in ulster

Are Errigal or Trillick good enough to give ulster a rattle this year? Who's more likely to perform in ulster?

No bluesy. Both aren't near it, i have no idea how two teams, as bad as these two have found themselves in a county final, beyond me. Could be embarrassing to watch one of them in Ulster.

Says alot for your own club

What happened to Tintown rattler/local expert gone very quiet on here. Wonder will their be any falling out tonight again after being beat by their neighbours in both games.

Aghyaran and Coalisland both dragged up to garvaghey for an u21 semi final on a few days notice. Disgraceful when you think the u21 season started at the end of January. Should have been red up months ago.

Disgraceful. Are the fixtures released for the competition? Grade 1 fixtures may not be released until Errigal seniors are beaten at whichever stage.

Don't think that's the reason since Errigal have been knocked out of the u21 competition. Probably more to do with the fact galbally are still playing championship. Dungannon, carrickmore and Killyclogher are the other 3 teams and their senior seasons are more or less over.

It's Dromore, not Killyclogher who are the other team

Worthless competition now. At a stage when it was run right and every club took it seriously you had some classic games. Personally I would do away with it

A few obervations,
Munroe won't be playing under Harte
McNulty Clonoe probably wouldn't play county
Canavan is probably a year too young
McShane thrived this year because Stevie ONeill was there
Lee Brennan should be starting

Munroe couldn't make the u20 team this year so he's not a viable option in the immeadiate term.
Dan McNulty has played very little football in recent years and I'm not sure if he's motivated to play or whether his body would be able to withstand it.
Agreed on Canavan, he should see his time out with the u20s. I don't think he has the physique to be making a worthwhile impact at present.
McShane may have picked a lot off O'Neill but it's not as if he was being operated by him on remote control.
I wouldn't have Lee Brennan on a matchday 26 for Tyrone at present, I don't think he offers anything above what the likes of Bradley, McAliskey and McCurry do and at present it's a struggle to get two of them into the starting side.

Tyrone need to be playing 2 forwards upfront next year. I would have mcshane and bradley as they each offer something different. Lee would be a good option of the bench. If he is constant with frees he worth starting as Tyrone have lacked a reliable free taker for years. Still not convinced with mc curry but I appreciate its difficult to impress if you are getting limited game time. Think it was against Cork that he started to impress

McCurry had a couple of very good games against Cavan and Kildare in the qualifiers but I thought he was quite poor against Roscommon and Cork. I really like McCurry as a footballer, he has a lovely style about him and is a smashing player, he gets his shots off very quickly and when he has the bit between his teeth he can do serious damage. The problem is he is very much a confidence player and when things aren't going well he hides and the past 4 or so seasons from him have been far more miss than hit. I hope he can get some consistent form and make himself undroppable because Mickey Harte definitely rates him.

McAliskey and Bradley have a little bit of that inconsistency about them too but not to the same degree as McCurry. Apart from his size what goes against Bradley is that he can be a little wasteful in front of the posts but he's an extremely honest player and will work his socks off and never stop looking for the ball even when things aren't going well for him. Skeet is the most powerful of the 3 and like McCurry is a real confidence player, when things are going well he is lethal but a few misses can damage his confidence. I wouldn't accuse him of hiding like McCurry can though.

Brennan for me just seems too lazy, he doesn't put in the same work rate on and off the ball that the other three do. He's great talent but a lot of things he does are far too indulgent. In the semi final he started against Monaghan in 2018 he kicked some amount of stupid shots away when they weren't on and there were far better options on.

I agree we need to be playing someone inside with McShane, personally I think the best option is Donnelly up there with Harte and Bradley operating a little bit behind them. I think we need to make more of an effort to keep more players pushed up this year and take a little bit of the pressure off McShane.

We need a few more players to step up to the mantle this year, McShane did last year and for that reason I am a little more optiimistic about our chances next year in contrast to this time last year.

Our biggest issue for me is no 6, we have been moving a little more away from a sweeper in the past two seasons and you look at some of the soft goals we've coughed up when teams run through the middle of us, the two goals against Cork, the one Derry got against us, O'Brien's goal, the goal Kildare got, Brennan's goal for Donegal. All carbon copies of each other. Hampsey is probably our best option there but when we play the big teams we will likely need to get him to do a marking job. Guys like Burns and McKernan consistently get suckered  into the ball and are oblivious to what danger in behind. We've tried a few there in recent years - Burns, Brennan, McGeary, Sludden, McDonnell, Hampsey. I think Brennan has proven with his form that he is great asset to us at corner back, Hampsey will always be swapping about as he is our go to man marker. The rest of those mentioned just don't seem to have the nose for danger to stop us.

Imo a complete clear out in that panel is needed going by recent club championship games certain lads deserve a chance and are every bit as good as lads on that squad.
Time for conal mc cann, brendan burns, mc hugh, mc donnell,  mc Laughlin, maybe even tiarnan mc cann awful season at club and county to go and freshen up again at club level.

Give Ryan Gray, niall kelly, Kilpatrick from pomeroy, dan mc nulty, conor quinn galbally. Also get bradley back in their.

Leave canavan and Grimes with 20s until their championship is over.

Errigal were trying to sign a few of there players i heard. Cant beat them buy them

Your living in the 70/80s man. I believe your a closet fianna man? If not your a washing bay man what's history their..

Intermediate final at the weekend what way will it go? i will tip pomeroy by 3

I wonder what the back up to the Healy Swamp is? Alot of rain today and suppose to be a storm coming in towards end of the week. Venue in doubt id say!

Probably o neill park in dungannon. But it could be in bother too the cattle couldnt get on it last night

Hopefully Aidy McRory can be fit for the final

Errigal people probably secretly hoping he isn't as they have better than him on the bench, but he will never be dropped if fit.

That's pure lies. He has been excellent all year.

Useless, worst defender on the county team by a longshot. Take your Errigal glasses off every once in a while

Clueless by the mountain goat

Disappointed with tonight's result but definitely a few positives to take away from it. I thought we were probably the better team in the second half and had ample opportunities to take the game to errigal- we missed a few handy ones in front of the posts and were unlucky when the ball was cleared off the line twice.

Harte with a few monster free kicks at crucial times in the game was probably the difference between the sides- not taking anything away from Canavans goal as that was something else. If im being totally honest I have a feeling Tiffy and co just felt that if they turned up today they would see us off so I'm glad the lads proved otherwise and showed us that there is potential there to take it to another level in the coming years.

What was the verdict on the referee tonight from ones watching on TTV? I think everyone around us at the match couldn't get understand a few of Shane's calls. Strange

No one had any doubt what carrickmore were going to bring yesterday. They have made massive improvements this year under daly and they will continue to make big strides under him. It was just great to see another battle with yourselves it was liking rolling the years back..

Ref was average at best the 2 black cards were not blacks. But it probably evened itself out over course of hour as a few of your defenders were lucky not to have picked up cards early doors. Another battle ahead thursday night now too

Big question remains....Is Ballygawley in West Tyrone?

I think it stretches into east, west and South Tyrone. It may even have its own time zone!

Is that bus parked up yet LeoMc? Was mcgahan the last drop off to killyman