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The reason Kyle Coney refused to join the panel is because he was struggling badly with a knee injury at the time and did not want to be joining the panel unless 100% fit.

Kyle has been playing well for Ardboe this year , probably their top scorer

Many clubs never ordered a ticket for the Brewster Park game against Cavan and Carlow but it's very easy to blame the season ticket holders, many of the season ticket holders will be in attendance at the O'Fiaich Cup, some club members will never have heard tell of it

I'm a little more optimistic than yourself GOTB but that's always been my downfall. I think we can beat Donegal in Ballybofey and the Rossies in Croker. If we beat the Rossies then there's a fortnight to recuperate after the Dublin game to look at Donegal. McBrearty is a huge loss to them just at a time when we're starting to see forwards get back to fitness.

I think we've played some good football this year. Finished 4th in the league while Donegal got relegated. I didn't watch the Galway game but I think we were caught by an early goal that day and had a sending of iirc and still only lost narrowly below. Beat Donegal handy, hammered Mayo and a good win over Kerry. I'm struggling to remember an awful lot about the monaghan game now but I think we were well in control but they had a purple patch either side of half time that won them the game. After that we've been on the road and have had the variety of challenges that should stand to us. The Meath game in particular is one that springs to mind. That was a game we could easily have lost but had the fortitude and fight to come back.

Donegal have been getting serious plaudits this year but what have they played? Derry, Cavan, Down and Fermanagh. I know they came from the prelim but that has to be the handiest Ulster in memory. That said they've hammered them all with an average score of 2-19 in each game. Paddy scored 19 points in those games but in fairness Murphy kicked 17 points and McHugh has a few goals and points.

Where did you see the fortnight to recuperate?

14/15 phase 1
21/22 phase 2
28/29 phase 3

A week of then and Semifinals set for 11/12 August

why the f**k are people being hard on lee brennan? who was the last tyrone player to kick 8 points in a game, even from frees? not brennans fault tyrone are still playing shite unimaginative football. people looking for scapegoats and it seems everyones gettin the blame exept the manager. and no he would never resign, he thinks he is doin a great job. so do the lads at ttm and a few on here. 3 yr contract, total control of players and nobody with the balls to stand up to him. mickey is laughing all the way to the bank....

The last man I think to better that tally was Kyle Coney when he hit 0:09 agin Cork in Pairc Uí Rinn in 2014 , we could be doing with him back in the red n white jersey at present

Also his record would be pretty similar to Larry Strain's. He won a club championship as well with Ballinderry.

Didn't know he managed ballinderry
Don't think it's a done deal just yet but both Gallagher and devlin are the preferred candidates with both our chairperson and senior manager but no official announcement yet

Devlin managed Ballinderry surely after a fallout but his children then started to kick a bit a ball and he returned to his beloved Moortown and after rising through the ranks at underage he managed back to back minor crowns and then was surplus to requirements and a fallout followed again, his lads were rumored to be transferring to another club

Ardboe management whom managed back to back minor titles suffered the same fate as them were chased last year after 1 year of a 2/3 year term

Derrylaughan won promotion this year to via a sterling performance in the league and were very unlucky not to win the double albeit some poor decisions by the ref cost them dearly , if my source is correct they have also chased their management team

Is there something in the water round the lough or what ?

The lowside around the loughshore has always been a bit mad. If you want to stay in management around there, don't be a successful youth manager.

Devlin was successful and got the road in moortown and as you say, so did the Ardboe management who got one year with the senior squad, although their dismissal was nothing to do with football. Rumour has it that the ginger shop keeper in cahoots with the bookmaker and his skivvies (same family) planned the coup that was to end their managerial careers. But that's another topic for another day.

Devlin will probably get a role within the Ardboe youth structures given the fact that his sons are heading that direction, however, that doesn't interest me either. If he gets the Tyrone job and can produce results I will be happy enough.

I've read some far fetched stuff in my short-lived life on this forum, but this is surely the best. It sounds like an episode of eastenders.

Nothing far fetched about it,

Ask anyman in Ardboe that has anything in him and he ll confirm all of the above and more

Paul Devlin has been appointed un20 manager on 3 year term

A great appointment, he was very unlucky against Derry in 2016 and then was beaten by the same team that went on to be beaten in an all Ireland final

is the brit referee Michael Connolly?

Could be Devlin himself

Gavin wylie,Paul mcKeown and Horse are the senior managers with some fella Noel O Neill as trainer,
I'm not sure what club O Neill was with before but heard great reports about him

White smoke expected in Ardboe very shortly.Cathal has decided on McGuigan's replacement.
Won't matter in any case,no balls=no cups.

Be no white smoke but could be more of a smoke screen especially when the nosey shopkeeper is involved, isn't that what happened last year via the puppets he had installed at his well organised AGM

Ardboe on the lookout again for senior management, McGuigan obviously on the market as a manager but I'm sure after his outburst in the local press there won't be many knocking on his door

You know the oul saying

You can't be the local publican and manage the senior team at the same time

Brian McGuigan turned down a lucrative salary to manage his neighbours in Derry the Loup last year, to quote him on a radio interview "was forced to manage his own club because the previous management had walked away"

The country knows what happened in Ardboe last year as it was well publised in the press following the well organised AGM

Brian in recent weeks was publicly on a rant about the support or lack of it from the Ardboe supporters  and obviously can't stick the heat and is rumoured to have pulled the pin on his managerial career

Not many clubs will want a manger who can't take Criticism, something which goes on along the wire on the majority of GAA pitches in Ireland, no matter who the manager is there will always be a few will disagree with some of the decisions that are made

To be fair til kyle he had a great league campaign for the Rossa finishing top scorer for them this year again and with ardboe getting put out in the first round of the championship we couldn't really judge Kyle on that performance

A great win for Pomeroy in Dunmoyle yesterday evening and deservedly so , in fact they should have have won by a lot more. Killyclogher looked out of sorts and seemed to have lost their appetite

Frank Burns was the best player on the pitch

I wouldn't have Mark Conway in as vice chair of our assiociation

I'd go wan further I'd have him in as Chair

The main difference between him and Rasheen is

No 1. He has a brain

No.2. He can speak effortlessly on any given topic

No.3 He's fit to write his material and not rely on others


I wasn't in Garvaghey last night but I was told by a man at work the day

Roisin struggled to read her own writing and how to pronounce some of the bigger words"wans with more than 3 letters" but she ranted on about this n that, she asked delegates to fill in a questionnaire about the building of the new Casement Park in Belfast and in the next breath spoke on furthering development within Tyrone by building a new Stadium

I never heard the lacks of it

I believe there were only two positions that went til a vote so there's not many looking to join the CB

Just home from the league final, I have til say as a neutral that Eamonn McHugh should not be allowed to referee a game involving  Dromore. He clearly a Dromore man at heart and allowed Dromore to bate the lugs aff Killyclogher without punishment, not for the first time this year either

Him and Martin Sludden are big buddies and have been seen regularly eating pots a pirtas between them