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Harte in Irish news today reckons Dublin will be even better with new manager. " New managers and new setups always bring an injection of something to every team, and so imagine bringing an injection to Dublin, what they'd be like" the f**king irony of this. What a bollock.

STG I think he did that deliberately knowing you would blow a head gasket 

Stevie McDonnell taking over Clonoe for 2020.

Another outside manager.   Can't native Clonoe people manage anything beyond a good shite?

We've had an inside manager the past two, on the subject of shite, have u looked in the mirror 🖕

[Will not be happening....]

Damian Cassidy. Rumours of course.

awwh, i thought yous were on about the other rumour.
Although it would be interesting for cassidy to make a return

Will not be happening....

Are you sure? Would love him back.

Damian Cassidy. Rumours of course.

Another handy pay packet for him

We were in 3 county finals winning two, won an Ulster U21 and also won two league titles when he was here. That's results. Went to Cargin and has won two county titles. Took his own club to the Ulster minor title last xmas. There aren't many, but there are a few who are worth it. Great times for us and he was a big part of it.

Our un8 girls manager would win an Antrim championship with Cargin

You think so. I went to the Lamb Dherg semi finals and final because Barry Taggart from Clonoe coaches them. Barry was also involved in our management team in our championship win in 2103. The Antrim championship was anything but easily won. Have you followed it at all.

[Will not be happening....]

Damian Cassidy. Rumours of course.

awwh, i thought yous were on about the other rumour.
Although it would be interesting for cassidy to make a return

Will not be happening....

Are you sure? Would love him back.

Damian Cassidy. Rumours of course.

Another handy pay packet for him

We were in 3 county finals winning two, won an Ulster U21 and also won two league titles when he was here. That's results. Went to Cargin and has won two county titles. Took his own club to the Ulster minor title last xmas. There aren't many, but there are a few who are worth it. Great times for us and he was a big part of it.

What positions do we think we are lacking in currently on the panel?

I think Rory Brennan and McNamee are nailed on in the full back line now after they performed really well last year but I think we need more reliable man markers here in addition to them. Hampsey needs to get back to fitness and I think he will generally slot in wherever we need a man marking job done - similar to Conor Gormley in his day. The likes of Eoghan Murray, Niall Kelly and Conall Grimes might be worth a look here.

I think 6 is a gaping hole in our team, we conceded an enormous amount of goals from players running through us at the middle last year, we need to position a player there who is an intelligent player with good positional sense - there are currently no standout players for this spot in our current panel. Possibly Michael O'Neill from Ardboe but he's more likely another attacking half back

Not sure if Colm Cavanagh will come back this year, he's definitely in decline but I still feel that he would have something to offer as an impact sub in helping us close out games with his experience and aerial ability. I'd expect Con Kilpatrick is a cert for a call up and Paudie McNulty may also be in line for a call up.

I think our half forward line let us down badly in terms of scores last year, Sludden had a really poor year and Peter Harte had some periods of good form in the league but he really failed to get going in the Championship. I think we need a dynamic scoring wing forward who is good for chipping in with a few scores consistently. Meyler and McGeary get through a lot of work for us in that area but neither impact the scoreboard enough. Cassidy and Burns did well on the scoring front from the HB line last year but I think they are better coming from deep. I can't think of too many standout choices here - maybe Mulgrew will get a break with injuries and push on this season. Ryan Gray has had a good year for Trillick and I like what I saw of Nathan Donnelly a few years back with Killyclogher.

The FF line has been massively aided by McShane's peformances last season, we have plenty of talented forwards in there who can play as a foil off of him - McCurry, McAliskey, Bradley, Brennan (if he returns) and other younger players around the county like Canavan, T Quinn, E McNabb but the modern game doesn't really suit these guys playing inside. I think we need to find more physical players as an alternative to McShane in case he is unavailable as he is absolutely vital to our plans. I think Moy's Ryan Coleman is certainly worth a look in this regard. I also think Paul Donaghy is worth a look at in terms of partnering McShane inside, he's a big lad and he knows where the posts are. ]

I'd be looking to leave both M Donnelly and P Harte inside as much as possible next year. I thought both their best form last year came when they were playing inside, Harte had a few brilliant games in the league when we was inside, he was MOTM in the league game against Monaghan and scored fairly well. Donnelly also had his best games inside, the league match with Dublin and Super 8s tie with Cork sticking out.

I'd hope there's a bit of a cull in some of the fringe players, there's quite a few there for a while now who have not broken in. Wouldn't mind seeing Coney get 3 or 4 successive starts at 11 in the league to see if he's up to it. He gives us something different than what we already have there.

I'm telling you, Danny McNulty is in some condition at the minute. He has transformed himself since returning from injury. Has been in superb form for the club in championship and league since injury. I thought earlier that he was shot, but he has completely turned the corner. He can win some ball. He is easily county standard in this shape, him and Mc Shane would be some target. Young Canavan needs to be CHF

Sinn Féin are an irrelevance. Banging bin lids at the border, james mc clean shirts at Brussels, school boy politicians. Don't see myself as either a FF or FGer but my God the difference in standard of politician south of the border is stark. We have a pile of sub standard politicians up here who are only there because the Brits pushed them to where they are.

We have plenty of terrible politicians no doubt - but to hold up the 26 as being any better is total horse shit.

Then look across the pond.
If Brexit has done anything it has exposed for the world to see, the lack of brains and talent within the British political class.

And then try looking across the other pond... 

Switch on RTE 1. Then switch on Radio Ulster. 10 mins will be enough to convince anyone that ROI is in a different league on all things political. Look at Varadkar and Coveney. They look like statesmen. Then look at Michelle O'Neill and Anderson. They look like and sound like fishwives.

You sound like a middle class snob. Sinn Finn leaders have come from the working class, their accents shouldn't lead you to an assumption, in the same way those in politics at the top end of it in Dublin have had their middle class education with their posher accents fool you either.

Errigal were completely crap. What a useless way of playing. Three points in 60mins football. A goal given to them by a stupid keeper who had the simple choice of fist passing to two free defenders. Kicked a high ball in in injury time and got a penalty. Pascal ffs. Trillick well worth their comfortable victory. Thought Mattie ran the show

How could anyone call Clonoe a town team, when they aren't a town. Its a parish divided by four clubs.

[Would be shocked if trillick were beaten by Clonoe.]

Eskra v Rock - Rock
Edendork v Carrickmore - Edendork
Omagh v Errigal - Omagh
Trillick v Clonoe - The Rahillys
Killyclogher v Coalisland - Na Fianna
Kildress v Killeeshil - Killeeshil
Galbally v Greencastle - Galbally

stick a few pound on that for a good weekends lift.

Would be shocked if trillick were beaten by Clonoe.

Why?

Did some laughing at that. Trillick did a butcher job on Dromore. McCullagh talking shite in the IN about one pt defeats, talking about how close Dromore are 😂😂  He has made some mess of that team, embarrassing what he has done to them. Started the league off well and gradually deteriorated. He definitely has lost that changing room.
Trillick on the other hand sent out a clear statement of intent. Three horse race now with Errigal, Trillick and The Huns

Everyone to their own I guess, what I know if I got hit in the way it has been described on this discussion board, yip I would have returned the compliment. I have no qualm in saying that. What if he had of retaliated and got sent off, big deal, one game suspension. Its called self defence. I appreciate everyone sees these things differently and everyone is different, I think its called 'fight or flight' in relation to how people instinctively react.

The problem with your "fight or flight" is that when the situation is one of neither "fight nor flight", ie, shaking an on-field opponent's hand before the throw-in, and you throw a sly dig, then that's just a knackerish thing to do, and you deserve to be hauled through whatever civic provisions as exist to put you away so that you cannot inflict that damage on any other innocents for a while.

Don't attempt to put a gloss on that kind of thuggish behaviour please, it has no place in our games.

Would you take the time to read the posts you tube. I said and stand by it, if you get hit like that, hit back and defend yourself. Feck the suspension. Someone hits you dirty defend yourself. What's complicated about that. What I didn't know and said it in my first post that I hadn't read any posts prior to my first post, and then a subsequent post from another explained, was that the lad was seriously hurt explaining why he was unable to defend him and had to leave the pitch injured.
If you want to stand and let someone hit you and not defend yourself, your welcome to it, but I will defend myself on a pitch or anywhere else, providing I am not badly hurt as this young man was as a result of the dirty dig

As I said I hadn't read the pages back, therefore I didn't know his jaw was broken, and that goes along way to explaining why he didn't defend himself, or was unable to defend himself, regardless of whatever size he is, don't know the fella at all.  I use to box at a time and did pretty well at it to, thx

Everyone to their own I guess, what I know if I got hit in the way it has been described on this discussion board, yip I would have returned the compliment. I have no qualm in saying that. What if he had of retaliated and got sent off, big deal, one game suspension. Its called self defence. I appreciate everyone sees these things differently and everyone is different, I think its called 'fight or flight' in relation to how people instinctively react. 

I have not read that far back, so excuse me for keeping up. If yer man allegedly hit at the start, did the player who was allegedly struck not sort it himself with a return volley? Did he just stand there and take it? May explain why he allegedly got clipped again as he didn't stick up for himself.  Although this type of abuse shouldn't happen, we are all around long enough to know how this goes. If the ref doesn't protect you or didn't see it look after yourself. views?

Clarkes beating Clonoe is a bit of a turn up, although they are unbeaten away from home so far and seem to be finding their feet in Div 1.

One off 3 starred games we have v Teams with no county panellists.... Dungannon well worth there victory over us yesterday.... 5 minutes to go we drew the game and looked like we could steal something, But a high ball in were every single person at the game seen a blatant push in the back for Dungannon to score a goal only Mr Hurson...but to be really honest about the game over all we can have no complaints about the  result Dungannon could have had the game put to bed by half time only they where seriously wasteful in front of goal...They are a young hungry team....

Tell you what, if Hurson keeps performing the way he has of late when referring us, its going to end up in tears, not condoning or promoting it either, but he has seriously got something against us and I can sense the anger building.