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Hold on a minute guys let's just get down to what the real issue is here. Two of the most "capped" players in the Tyrone squad are Peter Harte and Aidan Mccrory. Are these two players some of the best players in Tyrone for the past ten years? People need to really waken up on this. Postcode lottery if truth be told.

I actually understand your point bigdog, but using Peter Harte in the same sentence as Aidan McCrory with regards to a postcode lottery is just wrong. Petey is 1 of the most talented players in Ireland and would make any other county team. Imagine the star he would be if he played for Dublin in a Ciaran Kilkenny or Con O'Callaghan role.

Peter Harte wouldn't get on the Dublin team for the simple reason Dublin's open style would show him up for his limitations. Petey needs a free role so doesn't have to worry about doing the unsavoury elements of Gaelic football, that's why Mickey uses the blanket defence to suit him. Any ideas that the boss will get rid of it you can forget about it!

That is complete utter nonsense, if let play in an attacking set-up Harte would be an integral part of the Dublin. I'd even suggest that he would be the only Tyrone player who would make the Dublin team. If you don't like his uncle fine, but don't let that blinker your assessment.

My own club yes it would probably split us right down the middle at committee level. On a personal level, I don't think players would have an issue with it mainly because younger demographic and grew up with less aggro from the PSNI than our parents did with the RUC. I know I can say wholeheartedly that if wouldn't be an issue player wise.

We're the folks of the parachute regiment respectful when they murdered people from the same city that James grew up in.  Catch yourself on.  There are enough foreigners out there to criticise McClean never mind those from his own country.

There are approximately 280 countries that James could work in were he would not be subject to British tradition, culture and expectation.

But he's chosen Britain.

Chosen.

Choice.

He should show some respect.

Idiotic post. It's Jamie Bryson-esque complete with grammatical error.

McClean is earning a living in the exact same jurisdiction within which he was born and raised. So whether he plays for Institute or West Brom, he still pays his taxes to the same taxman... and let's not pretend the poppy-wankfest that has manifested itself into football over the last decade doesn't extend to these shores either. Most Irish league teams have some form of "Remembrance"; so using your logic all players from a Nationalist background must "conform" to this pathetic, political propoganda.

General Lee tut tut...idiotic post. Surely if the principle of ''choice'' is so important to you, then you understand that McClean has the choice to wear or not wear the poppy? To show apathy with the same soldiers who systematically and with government support (and subsequent cover-up) killed innocent fellow Derry people? Then again General Lee I would surmise that you are one of these Kapaernick should stand for the anthem types, even though the US Army fights for Kapaernick to have the right to protest.....NERD

But i do think Colm was a bit of an enigma. He probably only got as many chances as he did because he was Sean's brother, but to be fair to him he took his extra chances (eventually) with both hands.

Hold on a minute guys let's just get down to what the real issue is here. Two of the most "capped" players in the Tyrone squad are Peter Harte and Aidan Mccrory. Are these two players some of the best players in Tyrone for the past ten years? People need to really waken up on this. Postcode lottery if truth be told.

I actually understand your point bigdog, but using Peter Harte in the same sentence as Aidan McCrory with regards to a postcode lottery is just wrong. Petey is 1 of the most talented players in Ireland and would make any other county team. Imagine the star he would be if he played for Dublin in a Ciaran Kilkenny or Con O'Callaghan role.

Going on pure hearsay...I hear 1 of your younger starters is actually moving to a neighbouring club?? One with Coagh United players on it? What actually happened down the loughshore? I only read what was in the paper.

The fascination continues. People care more about him than their own county players or club, sad really.

Bottom line, he did wrong 6 years ago, got away it with easily but that's the way the world works now.

I would also look at some the history of violence is some of your own counties GAA pitches were cowards keep their mouths shut, for example, Tyrone GAA was is and was built on violence and thuggery. Just ask the county chairman who was knocked out at a ladies county final.

The greatest I would suggest you do your reading about what Tyrone GAA is built on. Thuggery and violence play no part whatsoever in it. I would also suggest that if you carried out a randomn check of every GAA club in Tyrone and referenced how many of them have criminal records vs doing the same in Dublin, you would find a ten-fold increase in criminal records for the Jackeens....so wind your neck in.

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

Glad to see that McGuigan's newspaper article about in-house fighting seemed to be well off the mark going by you two critics.

We will be the leaders of the new republic Ross. And I can guarantee that all the fake nationalists with their fake news will well and truly be drowned in Louth neagh.

Reading on this thread makes me sick. We have actual GAA "supporters" outlining reasons why we shouldn't have a united ireland.when said aim of organisation was to promote a nationalist identity. Alls wring is that too many people live off far cheques from retiring from uk govt jobs. Turned a lot of you into what African-Americans call "Uncle Tom's" . I'd like to name all you naysayers "Uncle Mountbatten's" . Makes me sick to my stomach. We have the constant kicking of SF, and how they're not a political party. Well I can think of 20 SF members who literally laid their lives on the line for Catholics in the North so we could have a fair shot at life, name me a politician from either FF or FG who can say the same. You will all rue the day you didn't support SF when they're in the Dail and you're on the outside looking in.

And to be honest you won't hear me say a bad word about them or their actions either. They did more for us in the North than anyone can ever imagine. But that doesn't mean that they had the full support of the party. But I'd like to know why Brollys parents and their occupation has anything to do with his article???

This has to be unprecedented. A team losing its two star players in one season. I always wondered though in a country with America's population, how it can only provide 32 adequately talented players to play 1 position. To go even further, there's possibly only 15 that can play the position at a high level. I don't understand how if we can train monkeys to use mobile phones, that more players can't be adequately trained to recognise defences and the reads that they are giving.

Brolly? Was his parents not members of a party that approved of the actual killing of Northern Police Officers not all that long ago?

Bit of a stretch there T. Can't recall ever hearing Sinn Fein approve of a Police Officer's killing...... FYI when making a bold statement like the above ''Was his'' should be replaced by '' Were his''.

Not so sure about that one. For example, on his willingness to kill RUC or UDR men, Gerry Adams said "If my role lay within the IRA and within an armed struggle, I would have no compunction at all." Back in 1983 apparently.

''Compunction- a feeling of guilt or moral scruple that prevents or follows the doing of something bad.'' One individual feeling no guilt after killing a cop or UDR man doesn't equal full party approval for a killing. But don't listen to me I would have had no compunction at all for the same.

Brolly? Was his parents not members of a party that approved of the actual killing of Northern Police Officers not all that long ago?

Bit of a stretch there T. Can't recall ever hearing Sinn Fein approve of a Police Officer's killing...... FYI when making a bold statement like the above ''Was his'' should be replaced by '' Were his''.

Brian McGuigans article in the paper a few weeks ago sums up why men from within their own club do not take the job on....not worth one bit of the hassle.....

Correct me if I'm wrong but had Ardboe not got two real good clubmen at the helm before the dort was done on them as per instruction by the well organised AGM

I think there is an element of truth that there were two clubmen involved but I think there was another paid man involved?