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How many games are the Glen lads playing in a year? It's probably less than some of the UUJ players who played Sigerson and McKenna Cup matches? I know they got a break last year after the county season so I'm assuming they played no more than 10 games in the run out of Derry? Then 5 games to win the All Ireland?

Assuming they play the national league that's 8 maximum? 3 then in ulster and another 6 to get to All Ireland final?

So if Derry got to league and All Ireland final they'll have played 32 games in a year?

There was plenty of room in the stand on Sunday and very few on the terrace so I'd imagine the attendance was around 3,000 (pitiful by division 1 standards - not long ago our "fans" used to take hand out of Kerry being badly supported). Carrickmore would be more than capable of holding this and has had bigger crowds at club championship games in recent years. Hopefully Dungannon becomes an option again.

Yesterdays game wouldn't help sell it to anyone but do the county board need to find ways to help improve the support and atmosphere at county games? Every McKenna Cup and league game is currently played in Omagh and can be a pretty drab place especially when the crowds are fairly low.

Would it not be better to take 1 or 2 games a year to other club grounds? A packed Carrickmore would have been better than a quarter full healy park yesterday. Dungannon should be another option going forward as well.

They certainly aren't playing them all in Omagh for the quality of the surface.

Jaysus that was a boring match.

Tyrone were poor.

Soft goal to give away in the context of the game and so so slow and ponderous in the build up.

Match summed up in one passage where Harte had the ball 2v2 at the 45 with a clear  break on and proceeded to turn in circles before offloading backwards.

McQuillan was as expected.

McQuillan done nothing wrong to Tyrone all game to be fair to him. Kilpatrick was lucky to avoid a Black card in the 1st half. Gave Tyrone ample time to rescue a draw but no leaders stepped forward to have a shot in dying seconds even though numerous opportunities were on.

If people are relying on McCurry, McShane, Meyler and Mattie coming back to transform that team then they are in for a massive reality check. Not near good enough. This is a long term issue and come as a result of Mickey not wanting to bleed new players and the current management only realising now you can't play to your 40.

The only decent player that's come through in recent times is Darragh Canavan. Besides him, the players that have come through are leaving Tyrone are a division 2 team at best. We're lightyears in terms of physical development behind the likes of Dublin, Kerry, Mayo, Derry and Armagh. Out of that starting 15 today how many lads were over 6ft? How many over 13 or 14 stone?
Tyrone are light-years away from challenging from an All Ireland, and serious work and change needs implemented at development level. We're bringing though good footballers, not athletes. The day of a 5ft 6,  11st intercounty footballer are long gone. Pace power strength are the name of the game now, and that's were we're ultimately lacking. As I've said carried too many squad players for years without bringing new blood in, to get them on conditioned plans for inter county football, now we're throwing young lads in at the deep end against teams who are at 3 or 4 years deep in their development and wondering why they look like men against boys. Lots of questions to be answered of the development coaches and structures in place. Spend millions on Garvaghy yet still getting left behind.

Laughable that anyone could try and blame Harte for the current issues. He left 3 years ago and left behind a team where the oldest players were around the 30 mark. And already had brought through a good squad of players from the 2015 u21 winning team and younger boys like Kennedy and Canavan.

It was obvious that a change was needed this year in the management and it didnt happen. For some reason there are numerous players not involved that would add to the squad.

I wouldn't be too harsh on the players as there are so many coming in at the one time.

Mickey ruined an entire generation of Tyrone footballers from 2008 on. Restricted them in every way. They were playing in a straight jacket. Completely devoid of ambition.

Harte "won" 3 All Irelands but the reality was that that team was a once in a generation team and they were destined to win All Irelands. The question was how many? If Harte hadn't have been there they probably would have won many many more. He refused time and again to pick the best players (Mark Harte has an All Ireland medal) and relied on moments of sheer genius from individuals to get them over the line. As that talent aged he couldn't reinvent or reenergise the team. He had Iron grab on the County and it took some bravery to finally oust him. With the those players freed them went on to secure another All Ireland. An average enough team by all accounts. Imagine what we could've done with in 2010s had players been released from his footballing prison. Without Harte we'd be chasing down double figures in All Irelands. 

Good luck to Derry but if the answer is Harte I fear you're asking the wrong questions.

Some nonsense this. If Tyrone had all these players to be winning All Ireland's how come did they didn't win an U21 ulster championship from 2007 to 20214? They struggled badly at that level which is a much better gauge of players coming through than minor. They had a good team in 2015 and won an all ireland u21 and within 3 years Tyrone were in a senior final with many of that crop involved.

Tyrone got to at least the semi final stage on 4 occasions from 2013 to 2019. The last few years have shown how well Harte did at consistently keeping Tyrone at the top end.

Not sure how they'll set them out position wise but here is my stab at the team:

Morgan
McKernan
Hampsey
Clarke
C Quinn
T Quinn
N Devlin
C Kilpatrick
B Kennedy
Burns
Harte
Oguz
T Quinn
D Canavan
S O'Donnell

If Burns isn't fit enough possibly Devlin into corner back and a reshuffle.

Missing
Enda, R Daly  Ultan, Hussey, Heneghan, O'Rourke, B Stack  Fallon, Dolan, O'Carroll, Cunnane, Nolan(?)

Didn't you hammer Galway without them all missing? Few of the St Brigid boys could be available too. Should be an away win against a struggling Tyrone missing even more players.

If Tyrone could get a team like this fit and on the pitch it's much stronger than those listed:

N Morgan
C Quinn
P Hampsey
A Clarke
M McKernan
P Harte
C Meyler
C Kilpatrick
B Kennedy
K McGeary
D Canavan
J Oguz
D McCurry
C McShane
F Burns (dropping into half back line)

There's no doubt there is a bit of transition going on and there's a good chance Tyrone wouldn't be All Ireland contenders no matter who was in charge. But there is enough talent in the county for us to be much better than we have shown in the last two years. We seem to lack a basic plan defensively and too many men are walking away for my liking. I really think it was time for a change and can't say I'm very hopeful for the season ahead.

Caught the sport on rte news last night. There's 140,000 people expected in croke park this weekend, could you imagine the hype machine in over drive if it was for rugby. Rte some how didn't mention the games on the sports news. They covered boxing, league of Ireland and golf.

From a Clonoe side of thing a few years back for a period of time we have 3 players on county panel Dwayne Quinn, PJ and Conor Skeet 3 out of 5 starred fixtures where against teams with no county panellists there was no out cry and were more or less told to suck it up..when Conor Skeet was our only rep on county panel something similar happened and we were told that one county player was not taken into consideration for starred games it was 2 or more.. if league was redrawn I would be happy enough with it by way just for the record!!

Hadn't Dwayne Quinn and PJ Lavery quit Tyrone by early April - there's no way they missed 5 games? If anything Clonoe benefited from their late withdrawel.

Clonoe definitely benefited two years ago when McClure McAliskey and McNulty quit the panel just before the start of the season after the fixtures had already been made based on county players.

The fixtures have to be redrawn if there is any fairness. It would be fine if they had one or two games against teams with county men but no logic in giving one team with no county men all starred games v teams with them.

You'd imagine a competitive game every two weeks would fit nicely into the schedule. 6/7 weeks is a long layoff.

No it hasn't but there's no excuse for a big county like Tyrone not to bring 8-10,000 to big home league matches and ulster games v division 1 teams. Even Kerry who Tyrone used to criticise as being glory supporters only attending finals can do it for league matches.

All very quiet ahead of the start of the championship. Any injury news? You'd imagine the team will be very similar to the last few league games. There's already been a few shocks this weekend and Monaghan will be coming in bit more confident after surviving.

On another note the county board really need to become more active at trying to get support out behind the county team. Somehow bringing more linkage with clubs and brining in bit of entertainment in Omagh. We've traditionally been one of biggest gaa counties with huge support and recently it's been pretty embarrassing especially given we are a top 5/6 team in Ireland.

It hasn't been helped with loads of club matches clashing with home league games. I know they aren't linked but it's ridiculous a full round of ladies games at 7 on Sunday clashing directly with a home ulster championship game. Could they not be played on Saturday or even 11 on Sunday? I know I'll be criticised by the club is king brigade but there is no reason for the clash and not having a strong club and county scene.

Centra leads, the rest follow
Martin's Centra out at fortwilliam docks in belfast was a good one, followed by Centra Malone road, Botanic Avenue etc

Personally the six counties deli-counters are far superior to the free state. Some counters are excellent while others are crap. Any tips for a man who travels a lot on the best delis or ones to avoid. The Milestone in Rathfriland is the best I have ever been too IMO.

This is a fair point and one that needs to be considered in any future UI discussions. We'll only give up our public sector if there's a commitment from the south to up the stakes in the deli department!!

There was a book review on Today FM the other day reviewing a book about Breakfasts in Ireland - the reviewer was championing how much better a breakfast was up north because it included Soda bread, potato bread & beans - totally agree

One of lifes great mysteries how potato bread and fried soda (the white version) never caught on down south for breakfast.