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Hmmm...Tadgh Kenelly elbow on Murphy from the throw in, Galvin on Geezer, Dublin dragging Mayo to the ground to see out an AI final, the elbow to Diarmuid Connollys face in the recent league final, Derry 15 man defence and targeting Mulgrew in 2006, Meath v Tyrone AI semi final......

Funny how Kerry are just 'cute hoors' though eh and Dublin are the epitome of purist football.

You can go on ad infinitum with examples of cynical play from the so called artists and artisans alike. 

Tyrone are no saints but they are far from being in a league of their own. The southern media is so myopic it's untrue. Dublin played against Tyrone in the league this year with 13 - 14 men behind the ball in their own half when Tyrone attacked, just as Tyrone did when Dublin had the ball - yet Dublin have now been lauded for having added a defensive 'edge' and Tyrone crucified for blanket negativity.

Both Tyrone and Tipp were involved in unsavoury incidents on Saturday yet Tipp are being portrayed as naive innocents....

Tyrone won, end of.

Tyrone play football one way only. Dublin will always play attacking football as first option. We've learned through recent bitter experience that the only way you can beat this putrid sh1te is to match it when we have the misfortune to come up against it. Its friggin horrible to watch and is driving people away from the game but Ulster football people don't give a fiddlers about the game or anyone outside of Ulster  Ulster football is what it is.

The game has become what it has become because you can't keep changing the rules as cynical win at all costs teams take advantage of the rules as they are and the fact that the GAA and its referees can't or won't enforce their own existing rules.

I wouldn't cross the road to watch Ulster game. You're all pretty much as bad as each other. Wishful thinking but would be great if you took your putrid version of football with your pulling & dragging, verbal abuse of other teams and chip on the shoulder attitude and p1ssed off to play your own championship. Wouldn't fix everything but would be bloody good start! You are a disease within the game.

Partionism at its best here. As long as we stay up in our wee corner in the North and genuflect to the Southern kingpins the GAA will be saved.

what a dreadful advertisement for Gaelic Football. Gas to see what Dooher and Canavan have been reduced to.

Tyrone will be happy they won. But it was a day when cynical ugly football won the day.

That Gentlemen is Gaelic Football 2015.

God knows what it will look like in 2025

We beat the team that you couldn't, suck up those bitter lemons! 

As for the half-time delay, we had no say in that, and hope the afflicted spectators recover.

Welcome to it when you have to win like that work away kid.

Dry your scone. Can you enlighten me as to how exactly that was cynical? Ugly yes. But what was demanded in those conditions.

what a disgusting comment max payne go and get yourself versed in how a stammer or speech impediment can affect people or better still dont comment

Hes a bumbling fool. If it was anybody else bar Ricey I would have sympathy for them but speech impediment or otherwise, it never affects him too badly when he is gubbing on a football field. Disgusting sums him up perfectly.

Ricey is the subject on Laochra Gael next Tuesday night 8pm TnaG

The show is set to last an extra 45 minutes than normal due to all his stuttering and stammering whenever he was asked a question.

I went to the game last night but I'd have been better off doing something else.
Dublin were shoite!
If every county plays the way Tyrone played last night within ten years there'll be no one in Croker in September never mind March!
Horrible win at all costs for personal glory from certain managers without any concern over the damage they are inflicting on the game!

There's an awful lot of hyperbole going on about last nights game. It is no the end of the world. It is not the end of Gaelic football either. Systems come and go.

Also if a team feels they cannot cope with the attacking play of another team to me it makes sense that they plug the holes. Why allow another team oceans of space and be on the end of 10 point hammering?

I think the Moy are definitely going the right road, they have a talented team without the Cavanaghs and are a great team with them.  I would back them for a decent championship run this year. Felt they were very unlucky against Carmen in the championship semi final a couple of years ago.

A great team? A wee bit OTT here

Eglish Kevin Hughes, former Tyrone minor trainer
Donaghmore - Sean Marty Lockhart
Moy -
Trillick - Raymond Monteith


Any updates?

Lads, could we not get him a job, apartment, girlfriend or some sheep in Tyrone. With Stevie O gone we need a new God for Ciaran McKeever to fall in love with and stop courting big Sean Can.

Id say you could DEFINITELY get him a boyfriend on the Tyrone panel!   
And dunno if Seanie wud go down as easy as Big Sean, diving cheat (shouldn't use thd word "big"as that infers that hes a big strong physical man, not a big girl who dives about and cries. Remember few back Nicholas Walsh made him leave the pitch in tears LOL!) But the Sean's defo have fair bit in common in that they cry to officials and love running to the media!
Think Cavan cud do without him, think they'll be dark horses next year, hopefully they'll take the Farney prima donnas 

Big, brave boy you are. Nicholas Walsh lowered himself to the level of a sewer rat that day. For all this talk of what the GAA is and isn't about with transfers and outside managers etc, it definitely isn't about carrying out the dirty act Walsh did.

But maybe that's accepted in Armagh.

Best 15 I've seen in my lifetime

1. Finbar Mc Connell
2. Ricey
3. Cormac
4. Fay Devlin
5. Ronan Mc Garritty
6. The Block
7. Philly Jordan
8. Sean Cav
9. Enda Kilpatrick
10. Dooher
11. Brian Mc Guigan
12. Joey Mc Mahon
13. Matty Donnelly
14. Stevy O'Neill
15. Peter the Great

Honourable mentions to Gerard Cavlan, Big Mattie, Adrian Cush. My favourite players to watch not necessarily the greatest Tyrone team!

Birdman. Pretty weird but very funny in places - 8.5/10

Why are Tyrone so bad at bringing minors straight through to the senior squad?  Every year there is a spatter of new faces but rarely do we see the better players from the previous years minor teams pulled through.  Other counties such as Dublin and Kerry aren't afraid to do it, why the blockage in Tyrone?

Maybe theyre too young so not quite good enough yet? (Probably stating the obvious)

What Kerry and Dublin minors went straight into senior panel??

There would be a few answers to that...
- not all minors make good senior footballers
- not all minors want to play football after a certain age
- university...alot of lads end up going to Uni in England or Scotland
- minors typically - with the rare exception - make it straight rom Minor to senior...the make up of the senior panel has an influence on that too...its hard to upstage and replace good senior players, esp those who have won the big prizes, which happened with tyrone of the last few years
- u21s is much more relevant than minor in talent progression (in my opinion)
- women, drink, drugs and Grand theft Auto 5

There exists a school of thought in Tyrone that the current development squad culture is doing more harm than good. Lads grow up thinking they are guaranteed to be a senior star after being pampered from U14 and when adult football kicks in they are not prepared to work as hard for it.

Just a theory I've heard discussed...

is it true that just out of shot, sean cavanagh is giving himself a deadly big hug?

It's true. If Sean Cavanagh was made of chocolate...

Conor Gormley has become the latest Tyrone legend to bow out of inter-county football having confirmed his retirement to manager Mickey Harte.

Gormley was part of Tyrone's first All-Ireland winning side of 2003 and won further titles in '05 and '08.

He follows Stephen and O'Neill and Martin Penrose in bowing out after the attacking duo made their intentions known to quit in November.

Gormley, 34, carved out a career as a no-nonsense defender and was regularly Harte's go-to guy in terms of man-marking jobs on the opposition's blue chip forwards.

He will probably be best remembered for what was effectively a match-winning block on Armagh's Stephen McDonnell in the 2003 All-Ireland final.

http://www.irishmirror.ie/sport/gaa/gaelic-football/gaelic-football-news/conor-gormley-retires-tyrone-inter-county-4902771

The main man for Mickey in so many ways for this past ten years. The spiritual leader of those Tyrone teams. In my opinion a bigger loss than Stevy O'Neill largely due to the fact that Tyrone now haven't a defender capable of shutting down the oppositions main man.

Ronan McNamee – Achadh Uí Aráin
Aidan McCrory – Aireagal Chiaráin
Peter Harte – Aireagal Chiaráin
Mark Donnelly – An Charraig Mhór
Niall McKenna – An Domhnach Mór
Cathal McCarron – An Droim Mhór
Colm Cavanagh – An Mhaigh
Sean Cavanagh – An Mhaigh
Justin McMahon – An Omaigh
Barry Tierney – An Omaigh
Kyle Coney – Ard Bó
Shay McGuigan – Ard Bó
Dwayne Quinn – Cluain Eo
PJ Lavery – Cluain Eo
Mickey O'Neill – Cluain Eo
Tiernan McCann – Coill an Chlochair
Padraig McNulty – Dún Geanainn
Patrick Quinn – Dún Geanainn
Cathal McShane – E R Uí Néill
Niall Morgan – Éadan na dTorc
Darren McCurry – Éadan na dTorc
Ryan McKenna – Eaglais
Emmett McKenna – Eaglais
Peter Hughes – Eiscreach
Plunkett Kane – Oileán a'Ghuail
Rory Brennan – Trí Leac

Any thoughts on the strength of this Tyrone team>?

Be interested to see how Cathal Mc Shane goes. Still need a top man marker.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/rugby/other-rugby/dangerous-obsession-with-size-creates-bigger-need-for-answers-30785080.html

Uh oh.