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Congrats to Tyrone Monaghan. Poor performance and result for Mayo Tyrone though, shouldn't be getting beaten like that at home. That said, it's the first week of February and too early to over-react
       

Could have done with you coming onto the Tyrone v Monaghan thread last week.

HA!

The competition is now officially a farce

Any college getting players in purely to play sigerson should have a serious look at themselves.

Any student going to college purely to play sigerson should have a serious look at themselves.

A good competition that could be played to a decent standard in the right spirit but seems to have lost its way amidst scholarships, desire to play at Intercounty level and packed squads of intercounty stars.

Fair point - the competition should only be for non-county players and try and give all colleges an equal playing field...give fringe players the chance to catch the eye of county managers...could be put in at a different date in the calendar....as it stands it is becoming a farce

So thats that argument settled - UUJ are just as shite as QUB...If I was at Stranmillis,I'd want my own club!

DCU 2-5 UUJ 0-4

Half Time

The footballs will be safe behind the goals at half time then. For a change. 

Some bad habits at the Poly courtesy of Master Mcguckan

If Tyrone can churn in a performance that, even in defeat, shows they sky ain't falling I'd be surprised.

McCurry, McAliskey and Sean are capable of torturing any FB line but it takes good ball to get it in there. The quality is there in Donnelly, Harte and Colm to feed a FF line but they are more likely needed to firefight a FB line.

Apart from one occasion, Tyrone have always competed well with Mayo in the league. Interesting to see if that is still the case.

McKenna was impressive against Cavan but starved v Monaghan. He needs to grab a starting spot by the knackers now.

I can't see ball coming from anywhere into the forward line - but id be happy if you were right.

I felt Niall McKenna was taken off last week as a scapegoat for the failure of the rest of the attack and I hope he gets a chance - seems to have bulked up and was attracting good frees v Cavan and Armagh....

Mayo should have the bit between the teeth and it will take a major attitude change from Tyrone to get a sniff at a draw - I see Mayo winning by 5

Stranmillis is a stand alone club competiting in Div 3 football and in ladies competitions. It has the same rights and independence as St Mary's .
Queens lost this case before Christmas at the Higher Education Committee, then lost again at the Central Appeals Committee. Then went to the DRA and lost again. (Must have more money than sense)
Surely you are not suggesting that Queens can pick St Mary's students. Actually in the past before they had their own team Stranmillis students played for St Mary's, Stepen O Neill a good example.

It's all for the best. At least Stranmillis will now see why Tommy Joe was grooming them so ardently last year and they have fair warning that he will drop them as soon as they get too old serve no further purpose in sabotaging Queen's.

Now, if only the HEGAA community had an enthusiastic individual who could help develop vibrant thriving independent third level clubs in Magee and Coleraine so their (best) players didn't have to make the long trip up to UUJ...

Ahh Tommy Joe...some man for one man, eh? Imagine if he spent all of that time on his own "centre of excellence"....

Sour grapes from McCartan and Co.

He wasn't complaining when he was winning Sigersons with a certain St Galls man as president of Clubs and Societies prominent.

Was standing next to the Queens dugout at the recent McKenna cup game. An awful bunch of moaners altogether.

LOL...thats Down men for ye

As already stated by another person it's about time we dealt in fact and not myth. UUJ have no players on a third course. None are getting paid. UUJ have a scholarship scheme same as most of the larger colleges/universities which include fees and accommodation. UCD, UCC, DIT CIT DCU and Queens all have similar. Queens top GAA scholarship is worth 10K as below.

The new Elite Athlete Programme (EAP) at Queens aims to create the right sporting and academic environment for high achieving students to reach their potential. The new programme has been established to attract sporting scholars placing academia and sporting ambition together in equal measure at Queen's University Belfast. The overall package per annum is worth up to £10,000 per student and is designed to support the athlete throughout their time studying at Queen's.

Some of the major benefits will include:

·         £3,000 contribution towards fees

·         Up to £3,000 contribution towards accommodation, international competition and support aids

·         Personalised Strength & Conditioning coaching

·         Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy Support

·         Individual Academic Support and Career advice

...with £4k being paid on top of that....as far as i am aware there are investigations ongoing into 9 player registrations at UUJ with 5 of those players being on a 3rd course...that said Peter Harte played for St Marys last year as a teacher in St Josephs Donaghmore...go figure....its all a bit of a joke

If Queens really are getting in a fuss over Doak (freshers manager last year, maybe he still is even, ITSSU president and heavily involved with Gaelic football in the college for years) who has hardly been brought in or is trying to skirt rules they are a joke-shop. Possible the most pathetic case of sour grapes I've seen.



With Queens trying to pull a fast one like that ITS are right to throw it right back at them.

rules is rules

Clearly not when Queens had to appeal. And Queens' situation looks altogether more dodgy.

CLEARLY at least one team has broken rules, no? And I am fairly certain stranmilis IS not a club alone but part of the QUB set up...unless you are Tommy Joe?

Stranmillis is a stand alone club competiting in Div 3 football and in ladies competitions. It has the same rights and independence as St Mary's .
Queens lost this case before Christmas at the Higher Education Committee, then lost again at the Central Appeals Committee. Then went to the DRA and lost again. (Must have more money than sense)
Surely you are not suggesting that Queens can pick St Mary's students. Actually in the past before they had their own team Stranmillis students played for St Mary's, Stepen O Neill a good example.

fair point - seems though at all colleges are taking the competitive angle right to the line and sometimes well over it...UUJ have 5 players on their 3rd course...some of them getting paid £4k...allegedly

Tyrone to bounce back and win this by 2. We can't be as bad as were last weekend. Last year we bounced back from the carnage in Killarney to post 3 decent performances to finish of the league campaign, stuffing an admittedly woeful Westmeath, drawing in Cork and going down narrowly to the Dubs. Hopefully we have had our wake up call early on in this years campaign.

My team,
Morgan
McRory
McNamee
McCarron
McNabb
Justy
Harte
C Cav
McNulty (I'm persisting with him as I do feel he may be our best option long term and this game will tell us a lot about him at this level)
Matty Donnelly
McShane (Still early days - but I agree with RedHand Santa throw him in and see if he can cut it, he will add enthusiasm and desire at least)
Niall McKenna
McCurry
Cavanagh
McAliskey

Or maybe we will get tanked by 20 points?

admire your optimism BennyHarp but have to say that we lucked out on the NFL campaign last year and if you take into account the Monaghan and Armagh games in the championship its as poor a year as we have had, using 39 players?...last saturday night sees us continue in the same form....all I see is a bunch of players and not a cohesive unit...that always takes time for sure but Id be up for change at this point

1/2 Mayo to win at PP.
Given the weekend's results, that is a standout.

The prices are very tight- no real form after one match

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/gaa-sports

I'd save my money for a new set of floodlights to be honest

If Queens really are getting in a fuss over Doak (freshers manager last year, maybe he still is even, ITSSU president and heavily involved with Gaelic football in the college for years) who has hardly been brought in or is trying to skirt rules they are a joke-shop. Possible the most pathetic case of sour grapes I've seen.



With Queens trying to pull a fast one like that ITS are right to throw it right back at them.

rules is rules

Clearly not when Queens had to appeal. And Queens' situation looks altogether more dodgy.

CLEARLY at least one team has broken rules, no? And I am fairly certain stranmilis IS not a club alone but part of the QUB set up...unless you are Tommy Joe?

I'm sure a lot of Meath people were saying the same about Sean Boylan in 1995. In Mickey we trust.

Im not sure that we all trust in Mickey anymore - he often paraphrases the great John Wooden about success..."being the best you can be..."

That seems to be a law that applies to everyone else bar mickey...
Do Tyrone have the very best Management team right now? NO
Has be always picked and played the best players Tyrone has? Not sure
Is telling a player he is dropped by text or through the media, behaviour akin to being the best you can be? Not a chance

We have some of the best facilities available, and a fairly decent set of underage players coming through - but regardless of what potential we have, the fact is that the team playing on Saturday and the team v Armagh last year did not play as a team at all - nowhere near in fact...
You cannot have a manager who DOES Not talk directly to players....and thats only the start of it.

There is a real danger that very very soon, all the good memories created my MH will be overshadowed, and I would hate to see that - he has been a part of some amazing successes over the last 10 years or so but he was never the exclusive architect 

If Queens really are getting in a fuss over Doak (freshers manager last year, maybe he still is even, ITSSU president and heavily involved with Gaelic football in the college for years) who has hardly been brought in or is trying to skirt rules they are a joke-shop. Possible the most pathetic case of sour grapes I've seen.

With Queens trying to pull a fast one like that ITS are right to throw it right back at them.

rules is rules