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Good win for Fianna in Clonoe today. 4 down at half time and playing into very strong wind second half. FT 3.10 to 1.11.

Owen Duffy scores a point via the post. McManus jumps for it, gets nowhere it,  yet after a few replays Canning still says it was McManus point. 
Maybe my eyes were deceiving me but it seemed to hit the post a couple of feet above the bar and go over.

He even said "McManus will take the credit for it"......

RTE have to look for fresh young commentators...Canning was decent in his day but its time to move on.......

would like to have seen McNabb start at 7 adn Harte in at 10.  will be suprised if Mattie stays at FF or thereabouts, He will drift back towards midfield.  McCann is the surprise choice at MF, good club player but hasnt done it at County level at all.  Always seems out of his depth, hope I am proved wrong though.

We should have enugh to win against a Derry team who seem to be really struggling at the minute.  But it will be closer than last year,  the Derry players will have more fire in the belly than they had lst year, which was pitiful.  I expect C McKaigue & Rodgers to be tasked with Donnelly and Sean and Heavron or Lynn on Harte.  Could be a low scoring affair, we are strong enough in defence and poor enough up front.  War of attrition on the cards  it wont be pretty

I despair, I really do. I enjoy the idea of getting a round-up of the days championship games. Soccor lads have had their match of the day for decades. But RTE in their wisdom have given the hosting job to a man who is inept and incompetent at best. At worst he is a biased classless inarticulate thick. Des Cahill was not just patethic tonight, he bordered on fostering the vile social media rubbish circulating recently incl on some so called GAA fan sites. Aidan O'Shea played only a minor cameo role today. Didnt score and only got marginally involved. No fouls cards or controversy. Yet Cahill the thick introduced in the main part of the Mayo Sligo "analysis" that some meath journalist spotted him giving autographs to kids in a nothing challenge game in meath some time back. Relevance to today's game- nil. When Paddy Durkin was being selected for man of the match,  you could hear the muttering sniggers of cahill blurting that Durkin missed an easy goal. Such biased dis-respect is astounding from our national broadcaster. And to really knock me out, at the end of the "round-up" he asks the question " well lads, so who's going to win the all ireland this year". First day of the championship. The man is a moron.

Des Cahill drives me nuts, puts me off even watching the evening show. RTÉ really missed a trick not signing up Dara Ó Cinneide when Seo Spoirt finished.

+1 on Dara O Cinneide.  Has forgot more than Cahill will ever know about GAA

Big Joe was a fantastic player, very languid, graceful style about him.  Could play anywhere, had size, skill, could shoot with both feet and never panicked on the ball.  A real character too.  Best wishes to him for the future.

I am willling to wait and see....

how many more years are u willing to wait?

Ok Mr Meldrew ok.....whats your solution?

stay quiet? pretend everythings rosy? if we are 3 weeks away from a big championship maybe mickey should leave the interviews til after. people are just sick of him.

Do ye ever think its one interview with a few journo's.  Papers come out on different days..  Anyway, lets see how we get on in celtic park first and take it from there.  Maybe everything isnt rosy in the camp, but the team still need support.  If ye dont want them to win then dont go.  History will look kindly on Hartes contribution to Tyrone and rightly so, maybe the style of play recently is a bit sore on the eyes and has turned to puke football as spillane calls it but do we have he calibre of Oneill, Mcguigan, Mugsy Dooher PTG, Cavlan,? not by a long shot.  We wont win sam this year or next.  Go, enjoy the craic and come home hoarse for roaring and guldering.  More important things in life than a vendetta against the best manager we have ever had.  Maybe his time is up,but it wont be this year so accept it and move on

Would Munroe senior (his dad) be a fan of Harte I wonder or is there anti Errigal Ciaran feelings there?
You would imagine it won't be the last we'll see of young Jonathon.

I was thinking about the season ahead and was trying to remember when was the last time Tyrone lost an Ulster final. 2005 we drew with Armagh and they won the controversial replay but you have to go back a good while before we lost one before that.

Down 1994
Monaghan 1988

No Fianna are more extreme than Tyrone, 15 behind the ball at all times when they haven't got it, brutal to watch an must be even worse to play for but it gets results. Just can't see the Fianna players sticking that for a full season.

Think it's horses for courses.  Fianna always left 4 up front against Omagh... got caught on counter attack a few times but didn't ask their scoring forwards to track back that much....

The losses weren't all down to Cooper. Contrary to popular opinion, In the 2005 final he had a good game, despite some cowardly treatment from Tyrone players.

He was a great player and a joy to watch. His vision and awareness of others is something very few players possess.

Yer hole!! What cowardly treatment???

I dont buy the living legends from Kerry praise as every county will praise their own higher than maybe they deserve.  Especially the Kerry ones, always a twinkle in the eye when they are talking Kerry Football, they like to throw in a grenade and watch everyone else get wound up while they stand back and laugh at the absurdy of it all. 

Colm Cooper will go down as one of the games most naturally talented forwards.  Didnt have a weak foot and had silky skills that many can only dream about.  Not the best in the air but no one player is perfect.   Cooper in full flight was a joy to watch !  Especially when teams tended to play with a bit more freedom and not this blanket defence muck we see now.

As for the greatest? Thats a non starter as each era throws up comparisons with the previous era and its a never ending argument.  We all have our preferences.  Personnally Canavan was the best forward I have ever seen, Cooper never had to carry a team for years the way Canavan did.  Both in the FF Line would have been some set of snipers though.

Of the recent Kerry teams I would have chosen the 3 O'Se's ahead of him. And over the last 6-7 years Brogan has been the most lethal forward in the country. 

Lads, Omagh has fallen behind nearly all other grounds in Ulster.  Toilet facilities are poor if you decide to stand on the terrace.  The terrace is shallow that if there is anyone a couple of inches taller than you standing in front of you it's hard to see the pitch. Why not have steeper sides like Celtic Park or Breffni..... The terracing is giving way in places, I can guarantee there were large puddles on the terrace as well as the pitch.  This is the case if it rains at all in Omagh.  There is so much room to renovate but that would cost money.  Maybe if all the development players chipped in also things may get going.

County board need to get the grounds up to scratch.

Feel sorry for the Cavan supporters who travelled up only to be told so late that match was off.  I found out 20 mins after leaving the house so I wasn't too far up the rd.  Healy park is such a kip.. Facilities are an embarrassment, Athletic grounds, newly, Celtic park to name a few are all much better grounds. 

The amount of times only 2 ticket windows are open at the scoreboard end of the grounds and 3-400 people are queuing to get in whilst anthem is being sung.  Supporters from other counties are saying its a joke and Tyrone fans are standing agreeing with them.  Time to bulldoze it to the ground or move elsewhere.

Maybe the county board could get the subs to man the turnstiles in place of ten £15

Paul O'Neill from Donaghmore.

Was he not the Moy?, decent player, stylish but maybe not tough enough for FB at that time

Happy with the win today but overall it was a poor enough performance. Roscommon had a few chances for goals that a more clinical team would put away.  Thought Sludden McClure and Harte were the pick of the team.  At least 2 points are on the board! Roscommon may well struggle to stay up, they need to take the chances that come their way but a lot of teams are struggling for 2-3 good forwards.

On another note Omagh is some kip.

Fair point Beanman, Just really has ramped up the verbal etc over the last number of years. Ironically enough he's one of the most civil lads you could meet.

For me the verbals  are a waste of oxygen and focus. After our game the dub defenders hit hard and fair and I didn't witness one element of verbals at all. If I was a donegal attacker that wold would hurt more. If the defender proceeded to scream in my face after the ball had gone I'd fight ten times harder when the next ball comes in.

I totally agree with you Omagh.  Justy is a civil fella,  most players are when not wearing the jersey.  Better to spend the energy being productive.  No need to rile McBrearty, Murphy, McManus, O Connor etc, they are the kind of players who do not shrink from the challenge and will only try harder to make ye look the fool.  Forwards loose heart when dispossessed, made to shoot under pressure or even better have a limited supply of good ball going in.