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For the second year running, Ulster teams comprise 5 of the last 12.

Considering every province is guaranteed 2 teams at this stage it means Ulster have 3 of the 4 teams that have came through the qualifier route.

I find it very odd the consistent negativity Ulster football gets when it is the only functioning football province.

Looks like the AI Final will be Fermanagh v Armagh.
Better put one of these in 

Or Roscommon.

Ronan does seem to be more effective coming on as a sub though

How can you tell while Harte ignores him in his team selections and holds him for cameo appearances rather than giving him a long run as an established forward like he did with Mark Bradley.

O'Neill played pretty much the whole of the 2016 campaign? He started all of our 5 Championship games, in the opening game against Derry he scored a couple of goals and points, the drawn game against Cavan he hit a pair of points. In the remaining three games against Cavan in the replay, Donegal in the Ulster final and Mayo in the AI QF, he was held scoreless from play.

O'Neill has had his chances, there are many valid criticisms of Harte but not giving Ronan O'Neill a fair crack is certainly not one of them. He's a finisher but lacks the pace and ball winning ability to be a top forward. I felt he did well yesterday when he came on and probably deserves a start next weekend ahead of McAliskey who has had a nightmare.

In terms of what they can contribute at intercounty level, I'd have Bradley, Brennan and McAliskey ahead of him. If McCurry was available too, I'd put him down as having more to offer. Tyrone's problem is all these lads are samey types of players, all nice footballers, all quite slight and small.

The top inside forwards in the game now are different beasts - McManus, Geaney, McBrearty, Mannion etc, they're all 6ft+ pacey and good ball winners. The fact is that if Tyrone had someone like a Conairre Harrisson or Andrew Murnin, they would arguably be the main men in our forward line. The game has changed.

Very poor display today.

Morgan gets a lot of stick but he's a very reliable keeper, O'Neill on the other hand is a liability, hopeless under the high and his kickouts not as good. Harte should just stick with Morgan from here on in.

A worrying display for Tyrone, it was a game we could have killed off when we wanted but didn't and kept Cavan in it. Only real standouts were Sludden, Meyler and Colm Cavanagh. Defence very off the mark, let the Cavan inside line win a lot of ball, McNamee is living off his 2015 form and needs to be dropped. McAliskey had a stinker, he's an all or nothing player really, either very good or hopeless. Today was the latter.

We're really lacking in leadership, you look at the side and apart from Colm Cavanagh there is not one player I'd expect to deliver. We all know the quality of Harte, Sludden and Donnelly but they only seem to play in fits and starts. They rarely deliver 70 minute displays and when they do, it's normally a case of one of them delivering and the others being quiet.

Ronan O'Neill played well off the bench, might be worth a start next weekend ahead of McAliskey.

Maybe we can turn it around but it looks like we're stumbling along this year until we meet a decent team and get a rough reality check. Loads of key players not going well this year.

Cavan are infuriating. They have just been promoted to Division 1 . They have some very experienced players. Young fellas with a few ulster under 21s. Tyrone are mediocre. But they will still probably have bate Cavan even before the ball is thrown in. And it's 21 years since 97

mediocre lol???

How do you work that one out and by what standard? By Dublin's standard everyone is mediocre. By Everyone else's standard Tyrone are among the very best teams in the country.

We also have some very experienced players, we've players from both the 2006 and 2015 Ulster U21 winning panels, and the 2015 All-Ireland minor winners. We've players 4 Ulster minor winning teams and 2 All-Ireland minor winning teams. We've one player left with a Sr football All Ireland and 5 senior Ulster football championships.

But yeah that's a mediocre side with f**k all achievements. In the last few years we've either gone out to the winner of the AI or the runner up by narrow margins.

Maybe stick to subjects you have a clue about.

I think Seafoid is a bit perturbed by the fact that Tyrone have won three All Irelands since Galway last even won a football Championship game at Croke Park.

Ní uasal agus íseal ach thus seal agus thíos seal.
I think Tyrone are thíos  seal and in denial. 

There are many more narratives than getting beaten out the door by Armagh say in Round 1 of Ulster  (0) and winning craobh na hÉireann (100). Not all threads lead to the top.

The lady doth protest too much.

Cavan are infuriating. They have just been promoted to Division 1 . They have some very experienced players. Young fellas with a few ulster under 21s. Tyrone are mediocre. But they will still probably have bate Cavan even before the ball is thrown in. And it's 21 years since 97

mediocre lol???

How do you work that one out and by what standard? By Dublin's standard everyone is mediocre. By Everyone else's standard Tyrone are among the very best teams in the country.

We also have some very experienced players, we've players from both the 2006 and 2015 Ulster U21 winning panels, and the 2015 All-Ireland minor winners. We've players 4 Ulster minor winning teams and 2 All-Ireland minor winning teams. We've one player left with a Sr football All Ireland and 5 senior Ulster football championships.

But yeah that's a mediocre side with f**k all achievements. In the last few years we've either gone out to the winner of the AI or the runner up by narrow margins.

Maybe stick to subjects you have a clue about.

I think Seafoid is a bit perturbed by the fact that Tyrone have won three All Irelands since Galway last even won a football Championship game at Croke Park.

I never saw Marc O'Se confront his teammates when they were trying to get opposition players sent off, maybe he should practice what he preaches.

I know brolly Labour's the point but just because it's brolly saying it doesn't mean he is wrong about the "tactics" used by coaches like Tally and Poacher....

Nothing wrong with the tactics used by Poacher and Tally.

Carlow are having their best couple of season in God knows how long and now Galway are beginning to get a bit of respect and relative success to previous years.

It's competitive sport, teams should focus on what makes their team more formidable and more competitive and they should not care a jot about what some envious onlookers think. If they think the game should be played a different way then that's up to them but there is no appointee that should be telling others how their teams should be playing.

You show me someone who'd rather have their team play nice football and ship a heavy beating than someone who will set their team up to give them the best chance to win and I will show you a liar. The reason Galway play the way they do is because they have severe deficiencies in ther back lin, it was brought up big time in their visits to Croke Park the last couple of years. They still have those deficienes but the way they play minimises them.

The thing Brolly et all fail to understand that GAA is not an entertainment business, it's competition, it's competitive sport. Defensively set up teams are not one bit a problem in my eye, a far bigger issue is that there is a growing gulf between the top teams and the lesser teams and that is biggest concern in GAA at present.

I hate Dublin being pointed out for the nice football they play - look at the players they have, the resources they have (financially and infrastructure), the facilities they have, the lifestlyes their players are able to live in comparison to teams from smaller counties who may be required to a) actually work and b)move away for work and carry out big commutes to make training. Of course Dublin are going to be another realm to any other team.

the game was level on 68 mins.
there was very little between the teams except for Roscommon's wayward shooting.

I think there was a big gulf between the sides in the second half when Galway upped the tempo. While Roscommon missed a lot of wides, shot selection was the main issue in the second half, there were only really two efforts you'd classify as bad misses that they really should be scoring, the bulk of them were high % shots taken on when they shouldn't have been taken on.

The shift in the game happened when Galway stopped standing off their men and stated to get tackles and hits in further up the pitch. Roscommon have some nice footballers when you allow them to play but when you get tight or physical with them they don't want to know about it and until they learn to realise how to cope with that and how to play football against that then they will go nowhere. All the big teams will play with an edge.

They have a very young and lightweight midfield right now and even if Compton had gone off I think they would have been cleaned out there as soon as Galway got to the pace of the game. It was a game of two halves but the difference was Galway didn't turn up in the first half whereas I don't think Roscommon have another gear in them from what they showed.

Roscommon are very limited. Unless they get a very favourable draw I don't see them getting into the Super 8s and I think it would be for the best of everyone if they don't.

I couldn't understand the tactics of Galway in the first half, just stood off Roscommon and let them do what they wanted for the whole first half with a strong breeze in their back. They could afford to get aggressive and give fouls out the pitch with that wind, it was very much unlikely much points would be scored from the 45.

In the second half they got a bit more agressive and outscored Roscommon 11 scores to 2 with a strong gust in their back and that was with Galway's main man having a stinker.

Still can't get any real read on Galway, I don't think they are good enough to make the last 4 but a lot of that will depend on who else is in their group. Good chance Mayo, Monaghan or Tyrone could fall along the way.