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Results at U-20 level largely depend on how many lads are still around. Many will be at uni or 3rd level and unable to turn out, which is why few clubs bother entering. Moving the age limit back from U21 makes it even harder for small clubs to fill teams, and was very short-sighted. It's a good way of giving lads football, but not much prestige attached

McGrath gets the Road from The County Minors after last night CB Meeting.
He is also due for the road out of Bryansford after numerous years of trying for Senior Honours with no success.
I often wonder where he went wrong, as the Ford have some of the best talent in the County...

Not before time.  He had an amazing team three years ago never mind the last two teams and did nothing with them.  We would have won an All Ireland U.21 title if he had made changes. He is in charge of the Down Development squads which is also a joke.  Bryansford should be contenders but have blown it consistently during his time with them.  His man management skills are pathetic and many of the players in his squads detest him.  Some will say he won us this or won us that, he stayed on as Down manager so long that he set us back ten years.  His arrogance cost us for years. Stevie Wonder could have won us the two All Irelands he managed us to.  It was the exceptional players we had at the time who won it for us, far from the manager. Pete Mc Grath is no big loss to Down football.

This is a disgraceful slur; apart from his achievements with Down, Peter McGrath was also reckoned worthy of managing the international team, where he had further success. Lucky? As Napoleon said, "Give me a lucky general". I detect some jealousy

Thought referee was fine, had no choice with the yellow cards. Agree that Kilcoo would have benefited more than Burren from the matches. Burren slight favorites perhaps

I notice you are studiously ignoring the violence at the end of the Rostrevor- Coalisland game; 2 Rostrevor lads taken to hospital afterwards. Is that the right spirit for this tournament?

I'm a great admirer of Tyrone, but they do have serious discipline issues. In the Paul McGirr u-16 quarter-final at Dromore between my own club Rostrevor and Coalisland, serious disorder broke out towards the end. Rostrevor were winning easily and it seemed like Coalisland were trying to get the game abandoned. Two Rostrevor lads had to be taken to hospital afterwards.
It seemed particularly inappropriate for a tournament honoring the memory of a young footballer.
These two incidents, plus the violence at the ladies match, do seem to form a pattern and a proud county like Tyrone needs to do something about it.