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[Carrickmore]

In the nick of time

Clonoe v Carrickmore
Dromore v Errigal Ciaran

Biggest winning margin: Carrickmore

[Carrickmore]

Clonoe v Donaghmore - Draw
Carrickmore v Loughmacrory
Omagh v Dromore
Errigal Ciaran v Dungannon

Highest winning margin - Dromore

[Dungannon]

Trillick V Dungannon
Greencastle V Donaghmore
Dromore V Killyclogher - Draw
Ardboe V Omagh
Moy V Errigal Ciaran
Moortown V Clonoe - Draw
Loughmacrory V Derrylaughan
Carrickmore V Coalisland

Biggest margin: Errigal

I saw a post from St Joseph's in Coalisland a few weeks ago that said 12 of the Holy Trinity squad were past pupils. I'm near sure that included Ruairi McHugh in midfield.

TG4 usually provide counties with €8-10k when they broadcast games from what I'm led to believe. From memory the Tyrone County Board had to refund £30-40k to paying subscribers for the 2018 (?) final when the system crashed and I'm sure it would have been more last year.

The extra money generated could in theory pay the wages of a schools coach for a year. It might be disappointing that its not free to air but I can certainly see their logic.

What's more interesting is how it will play out in Croke Park. They could in theory stop the Tyrone final being streamed if they chose to.

In the first half, Tyrone were clearly trying to go long and win the breaks when going down the middle. Morgan was putting the ball on the money, the ball was being broken but Kerry were first to everything. The bit of success he did have in the opening half was isolating Kilpatrick and Kennedy on the wings and they were able to win their own ball one on one.

In the second half he took a few chances shorter and they didn't always come off. Something to work ahead of Mayo. You can be sure James Horan was taking plenty of notes.

Impressive run by Mayo's Sinead Diver in the Marathon today - top 10 finish for a 44 year old

And only took it up 6/7 years ago. Why though was she able to finish ahead of a 'career' athlete like Fionnuala McCormack? Was she more acclimatized to the hot conditions?

McCormack gave birth 7 months ago. Has had 2 children from she ran in Rio. 25th in that heat for McCormack given all that wasn't a bad result given the circumstances

I think he had more in him too. 817 for 3000 at 16. Crazy

He had done 8.11 at the Irish U20 championships last month. 14.15PB for the 5k earlier in the year as well. For a lad only training seriously for the last year or so he's bound to be one to keep an eye on. I see a few people who know a lot more about athletics than me reckon he's one of the best Irish athletes at his age they've ever seen

Why is Kennedy and Brennan getting no game time this year? Looks a strong team only change I would make is Cassidy/Rafferty for Munroe

Kennedy is a strange one. But from a yarn with one or two Brennan isn't at the pace of it. He's a classy classy operator but I don't think he is a county forward. He could drop off to Trillick very handy

Kennedy injured a hamstring in the Donegal game

Presuming McShane is still out and McNamee potentially out if it's seemed a concussion. I'd go with the following the next day.

Morgan

Brennan  Hampsey  C Munroe

Cassidy     O'Neill      Rafferty

Mattie      Kennedy

Donaghy   McKenna    Meyler

McGeary   McAliskey     Bradley

Munroe did well yesterday so he deserves a go if McNamee is noy around.

Hopefully McShane will be available off the bench. Should be some good options

Is moving mcnamee out the field out of the question?

McNamee is the type of guy who can probably player anywhere, usually plays midfield for his club but he's an All Star full back and I think that's where he has been rock steady for Tyrone for a number of years now.

Brennan McNamee Hampsey is arguably as good a full back line as there is in the country.

Where you suggesting playing him? At 6 or midfield?

I was thinking at midfield as a good option for kick out and can take a score but I would agree that Tyrone need all 3 of them in the full back line if playing against likes of Dublin or Kerry

McNamee is certainly good enough to play midfield but would he be any better of a midfielder than someone like McClure for example? I'm not so sure. He is a top class full back though. It's a bit like us having McKenna playing inside yesterday.

Clearly we have issues at midfield though and that's a worry.

I thought the management were very quick to hook Kennedy yesterday, he wasn't playing well but there were a few other players who could have been hooked and he is the only natural midfielder in the squad.

Was Paudie McNulty approached to play this year. I'd find it odd he wasn't after a good year with Dungannon and the obvious shortcomings we've had at midfield.

Kennedy picked up what looked like a hamstring injury. Had ice pack on it, on the sideline after half time

The final has been fixed for Healy Park in Omagh on Sunday, December 1. What sort of shape is the pitch going to be in there ?

Well it was immaculate when taking two games on it on Saturday night, so barring a fortnight of rain fairly good....

It's not that odd at all.  And they would get relegated to Junior by being Relegated from Intermediate Championship.
Killenkere reached Intermediate final in 2016 but struggled in 2017 Championship and relegated to Junior

Look at the Inter County scene. There is 4 divisions In league, and  in championip a Division 4 team could play a Division 1 team in a Provincial championship game

Yet people cry about disregarding the weaker counties

But that's why now Rodney, there's a clamour for a tiered system...or at least 2 tiers.

Of course... They complain that a tierd system is disregarding counties.  A hammering in a Provincial and qualifier game isn't any benefit.
Leitrim and Wicklow proposed the idea. Some of the others objected. Thery could have a chance of playing the final at Croke Park. That wasn't going to happen through the qualifiers

As regards the club scene. Trillick in Tyrone I read were beaten in a Intermeduate final a few years ago but wee promoted in Division 2 and played Senior football the following year. That's just devaluing the Intermediate Championship

Trillick won the Senior Championship the next year. They only went up through the league play-offs too having come second in the league. So it definitely didn't devalue the Intermediate Championship. If anything it proves the point that teams in the top division should be playing in the Senior Championship.

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Must've been some amount of brown envelopes this week. Derrylaughan do anything for $$ and the Moy up to the old tricks again. Local stationary shops in the Moy must be buzzing at this time of year

$$??? Few derrylaughlan men going to the states next summer need it?
You seem very sour about the weekends results fella, your club must have been hard done by??

The bottom of Division 1 was decided a fortnight ago. Edendork couldn't pass Moy on head to head. The only thing down for decision is where the play-off between Eglish and Edendork is. There's nothing about the results at the weekend that would have been unexpected given that very few of the teams left had anything to play for

[If anything it shows Tyrone are up there with Dublin and Kerry in having the full time S&C coach and aren't content with a part timer they way Monaghan still are.]

There is only short term security in professional sports in terms of managers and coaches. At some stage , the management team is sacked and new people take over.Thats why they get paid so well.
GAA is going the same way. New manager leads to new backroom members. You have to make your mark and charge accordingly. Even in club football the gravy train keeps moving on.
What would the career span be for coaches /s &c coaches ? 10 - 15 years ?

Donnelly's role was secure enough, he was a full time registered employee of Tyrone GAA with a remit covering all the S&C needs of Tyrone underage squads up to senior. He's very highly rated which probably explains why a professional setup came and headhunted him for their gig. I don't know how many other counties employ somebody like Donnelly, Dublin probably do and a few others but I think Tyrone were ahead of the curve. In terms of fitness, conditioning and our injury record record then I think the results speak extremely positively for Donnelly but the package on offer from a professional outlet is likely one we can't come close to offering.

Personally i would want noting to do with the shower that is Ulster rugby but i understand why he did, professional set up blah blah.. My issue is that it seems he was just let go. If Leinster rugby come looking a Dublin S&C coach I don't think they would get him at all and if they did they would not get him as easy.

Donnelly on full time contract with Tyrone. Not huge salary but probably decent in GAA circles. Ulster Rugby come calling, offer him a few grand more to do similar job, 9-5, working with academy set up, larger more professional organisation, more room for career progression. Donnelly suggests to Tyrone he could stay on and do S&C for senior team only on a part time evening basis (like vast majority of other counties outside the top tier), Tyrone say no, we want someone full time. All fair enough.
Donnelly then gets the opportunity to do the part time evening set up with Monaghan and make a few extra quid. All seems completely fair on both sides. Nothing to see here, move along.

If anything it shows Tyrone are up there with Dublin and Kerry in having the full time S&C coach and aren't content with a part timer they way Monaghan still are.

Am I missing something here? Davis is only coming in on a part time basis to work with the senior team. We're going to need to go and get someone to work with the U20 and Minor teams to do the work Peter Donnelly did with them...

The reality is Tyrone have a serious problem holding on to any expertise they've got in the way of full time staff. The staff turnover in the last 12-18 months is unreal. Meanwhile we're in the process of building another white elephant at Garvaghey instead of investing in coaching for all our teams not just the elite players

I'm fairly sure Central Council decided at the beginning of the year to switch to penalty kicks in the 'winner of the day' scenario but free kicks were in the competition regulations hence the free kicks last night.

To be honest it's probably a good job it went to a replay because had PG1 lost and had to play without a player wrongly sent off (even if he returned when the error was realised) because a yellow card was wrongly carried into extra time then we'd probably be looking at an appeal and rightly so.

Thought PG1 were the better team in the first half and LD probably the better side over the rest of the game on balance. PG1 were much more economical in front of the posts. Looking forward to game 3! Fitzsimmons will be a loss for LD had been having a great championship.

Thought the Dub was a great venue, it's just a pity no one looked into some sort of PA in advance. There were a lot of people wondering what was happening.