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3 pomeroy men rs,rh 🎅,god spare us,one thing Tyrone don't need is giving away frees what FB and K MC G do constantly,HP is ok for an in-house game but that's it,ass like a limousine bull,conditions won't suit him either, I'll eat my whistle if any off the 3 off them have a good game

Give me Frank Burns and Kieran McGeary before Tiernan McCann, Michael McKernan or Conor Meyler anyday.

[Tell me then,What does mcgeary and burns bring to the team]

Tell me then,What does mcgeary and burns bring to the team

Fouling and loads of stupid decision making..

What did the other 13 bring today then. McKenna scoring 1-2 was the only.positive today.

McCann and McKernan are bigger problems for Tyrone than McGeary and Burns, Sludden poor again - a worrying trend for him since 2018, pushing defenders into midfield isn't the solution going by today - Richie Donnelly and one of Kennedy or Kilpatrick is the only way to go in this area.
Why was Richie, Cassidy, Bradley and Peter Harte not involved in the panel today?
McKenna was a positive once he moved to full forward. Rafferty from an attacking perspective showed some potential.

Was the referee as bad as Tyrones official twitter seemed to insinuate?

Only saw the last 15-20 minutes. Some mind boggling decisions. He blew Ronan O'Neill for overcarrying as he got through on goal. How he came by that decision is anyone's guess.

O'Neill may have overcarried and it was harsh in terms of what is generally let go in terms of steps but the thing was he was fouled on about 3 separate occasions as he made his way toward goal.

I didn't think the referee performance was too bad though but maybe that's more an indication of how little Monaghan offered and how comfortable Tyrone were all night.

The following players saw no action in the McKenna Cup:

Hampsey
Harte
M Donnelly
R Donnelly
McClure
Loughran
Bradley

3 of those are guaranteed starters and Bradley and R Donnelly would be strongly pushing for spots too.

Rory Brennan was not in the 26 for the last two games and Coney and McHugh were pulled from the squad last night, also no sign of Brian Kennedy and Mulgrew came off early with what looked like some sort of injury, we also know McKernan will miss the most part of the league.

So all in all we are probably down about 10 players or more for the opener against Meath, it's a good opportunity for some of the new guys and some of the players on the fringes in the past few seasons to make their claim. From what I've seen from the new call ups this year, they seem to be capable of holding their own, Quinn and Grimes are just out of u20 so I suspect they are unlikely to feature a whole pile this year and are more ones for the future.

Usually Harte would trim the squad after the McKenna Cup but with so many absentees this year I'd imagine he'll probably wait until the cessation of the league to look at it again.

Are Mattie Donnelly, Hampsey and Loughran long term injuries? Will they be available for any of the league games?

The brother Lorcan I believe.

He was an S&C coach for some team in the past I believe cant mind who - must be into the coaching/managing too.

He was S&C coach with Slaughtneil in 2019 and I think he has been with Cavan underage teams as well in the last.

He was also S & C for TyroneU21s in 2015 when they won the All Ireland !!!

You're right so he was. Forgot about that and the Fermanagh job. Maybe he wasn't at Cavan at all. Hard to keep up sometimes with who has been where.

Was in Cavan with McGleenan. However, I don't think it matters where he has been. Edendork will struggle this year big time with Morgan, Darren and Conn with Tyrone. Edendork have a good 15 (Including the 3 county lads) but after that they are very very poor. Barely anything on the bench in the championship last year against Carrickmore and it cost them the game.

Edendork the standout team in Intermediate this year. Will go in as favourites for both league and championship. With the exception of Eglish, they will still expect to win their starred games against anyone else in Division 2.

All managers appointed at this stage?
Any clubs entering Ulster League this year?
Any further word of league restructuring? Or was this just hot air at the annual convention?

Senior

Ardboe: Fabian Muldoon
Carrickmore: Ryan Daly
Clonoe: Stephen McDonnell
Coalisland: Damien O'Hagan
Derrylaughan: Kevin Coary
Donaghmore: John Rafferty
Dromore: Colm McCullagh
Dungannon: Collie Holmes
Errigal Ciaran: Johnny McBride
Galbally: John Moylan
Killyclogher:
Loughmacrory: Martin McConnell (Coach?)
Moy: Sean Cavanagh
Omagh: Carl McCabe
Pomeroy: Brian McGuckin
Trillick: Nigel Seaney & Liam Donnelly

Intermediate

Aghaloo: Micky Donnelly
Aghyaran:
Augher: Padraig O'Kane
Beragh: Ryan McCloskey
Clogher: Sean McCaughey
Edendork: Lorcan Martin
Eglish: Matthew McGleenan
Gortin: Cormac McGlinley
Greencastle: Sean Teague
Moortown: Stephen McHugh & Stephen Ferguson
Naomh Eoghan: Conor Gormley (Training Role only i believe.
Owen Roes: Barry Tracey
Rock: Martin Hackett
Stewartstown: Fergal Logan
Strabane:
T***yreagh:Martin McNulty

Junior

Brackaville: Justin Corr
Brocagh:John McGuckin
Castlederg:
Clann na nGael:
Cookstown Brian Mulligan, Mickey Rea
Derrytresk: Paul Hughes
Drumquin:
Drumragh:
Errigal Ciaran Thirds:
Eskra: Gerry Donnelly
Fintona:
Glenelly: Dermot Corry
Kildress: Roger Keenan
Killeeshil: Paudge Quinn?
Killyman: Declan Treanor
Urney:

Anyone have a list of forward players currently on the panel?

Mattie Donnelly
Peter Harte
Niall Sludden
Mark Bradley
Darren McCurry
Daniel Kerr
Ronan O'Neill
Harry Loughran
Kyle Coney
Ronan McHugh
Dd mulgrew

Given that the advanced mark is coming in this year in Championship I am surprised we haven't brought in Ryan Coleman to have a look at him. We don't have many real standout target man forwards in the county right now. McNulty seems to have went really well over the club Championship but you'd have severe questions over his fitness given his past injury problems.

Not sure on this post but is McShane not the best equipped Target man in the county at the moment ? How many target men do you need.

Hopefully Donnelly gets back fit and we can leave him inside, I think I'd try Peter Harte inside with McShane for the league and maybe play Sludden from deeper as both struggled last year when we tinkered with our style. I do think we need to start with more of a scoring threat this year.



More than one I would assume.

You will win nothing with 1 target man. Any injury or double marking and your attacking threat is gone

I wouldn't mind seeing a side along the lines of this during the league:

-------------------------------Morgan

Rafferty--------------------McNamee-----------------R Brennan

Cassidy---------------------Sludden------------------K McGeary

-------------------R Donnelly-------Kennedy

Mulgrew--------------------Coney---------------------Meyler

Bradley------------------McShane----------------------Harte

I'd like to see Harte and McShane left inside for the most part, obviously Harte will have the inclination to drift out from time to time which is fine. I don't know if Coney has the legs for this level but I'd like to see him be given a run of games to prove himself, he certainly has qualities that no other player in our squad has, we should allow him to roam around around the 45 and midfield area and see if he can get on the ball and influence the game. I think Bradley is best utilised scheming out around the 45 too where he will get more space. I think his best season with Tyrone was 2015 when he was playing a playmaker and had some great games, particularly the semi final v Kerry.

I think we have made some subtle changes in the past two years to make us a bit more attacking but I think we need to commit more and leave two men inside and two outlets on the 45 for us too. Hoping Mulgrew can stay fit and healthy as he could be a good option at wing forward who can get through a power of work and also capable of chipping in with some scores.

With Hampsey rumoured to miss the league and Donnelly definitely out of it, it will allow certain players to put their hands up as go to men. Need another guy to come out and show himself as a leader, Hampsey did it in 2018, McShane this year, we need another player to really bring on their game next year.

Morgan
Quinn McNammee Grimes
Cassidy Brennan Rafferty
Conn/Richie/Kennedy
Meyler Sludden McGeary
Peter Harte McShane Bradley/McCurry
Is what I would like to see. Give the 3 in midfield plenty of opportunities with different combinations to see. From what I saw last year none of our options in there have 70 minutes in them.
Grimes and Quinn most potential of new recruits after Conn and I would like to see them get as much time as possible to develop. Probably not big championship contributors this year but will be in the future. Your more experienced players like Meyler and McGeart can obviously be rotated with McKernan, Burns and so on.
Would like  to see Harte close to goal and playing off McShane, would remove the idea of stopping him from playing to which happens to often when he's out the field.

What way do we see things working out in Division 2 this weekend?

Pomeroy v Greencastle
Augher v Strabane
Beragh v Loughmacrory
Galbally v Cookstown
Gortin v Clogher
Moortown v Newtownstewart
Owen Roes v Stewartstown
Aghyaran v Urney

At the top: Galbally at home to Cookstown, a defeat for Fr. Rocks will see them in relegation play offs, can't see anything other than a Galbally win here.
Beragh v Lough, if Lough were told at the start of the year they need a win v Beragh on last day to secure senior football next year they would have took it, I am sure there must be some nerves in the camp this week and Beragh would love to spoil the party, expecting Lough win.
Pomeroy v Greencastle on Saturday afternoon, Pomeroy win here to move into second place and leave the pressure on for Lough the next day.

At the bottom: Urney are already gone and seem to have thrown the towel in.
Newton playing Moortown, possibly in Garvaghy mid week or Friday? Correct me if I am wrong here, but both Strabane and Stewartstown have both beated Newton so even if Newton are level on 10 points with either of them they are in relegation play off anyway based on head to head?
Strabane v Augher, last few weeks would suggest that Augher have no interest in play offs, very strange considering a few weeks back they were in a position to play Clogher again in play offs, maybe they didn't fancy that possibility. Strabane will likely pick up easy points here.
Owen Roes v Stewartstown, Owen Roes win here leaving Stewartstown possibly level with Newton, although they won the head to head which should see them safe?

In the middle:
Owen Roes and Clogher guaranteed to play each other in play offs with what looks like no other team looking to fill the final spot? Possible teams to take it are Augher, Greencastle, Gortin, Moortown and Beragh, with all possibly going to get beat it would leave Augher staying in 6th place with an away trip to Pomeroy or Loughmacrory.

There is the the very very outside possibility of four teams finishing on 10 points would leave a tricky situation.

Overall I  am going for, Gallbally winners, Lough runners up, Pomeroy v Augher, Clogher v Owen Roes, Newton v Cookstown.

If the teams end up tied on 13 points for 6th place does it not go to a play off for play offs siutation due to Augher conceding a game already?

Still Trillick and Errigal game to be played but I think a few players have really stood out in the championship this season and have fairly decent recent history with Tyrone underage, university etc that I'd like to see called up.
Daniel Kerr, Ronan Nugent, Conor Quinn - Galbally
Conn Kilpatrick, Paul Donaghy - Edendork
Niall Kelly, Darragh Canavan - Errigal
Tiernan Quinn - Coalisland
Ruairi Kelly - Trillick
Tiernan Murray - Carrickmore
Conall Grimes - Loughmacrory
Obviously that's a lot of players to call up, and Tyrone U20s from last year and this year coming will likely get call ups in the future. But think a clear out of the squad players is needed and the majority of them would offer an improvement on those players who are not seeing game time outside of the mckenna cup, early league games.

Who do we reckon is going up from Div 2 and down from Div 1?

Galbally as double winners.
Pomeroy will finish second as Loughmacrory will slip up V Galbally in the league.
I'd fancy Loughmacrory to be the division 2 team at the end of the play offs. Whether they can beat Moy or Eglish remains to be seen however.

Frank Burns red card over turned? Free to play in the final?

1   Galbally Pearses                           22
2   Pomeroy Plunketts                        17
3   Loughmacrory St. Teresa's                16
4   Clogher Eire Óg                                16
5   Gortin St Patrick's                        13
6   Augher St Macartan's GFC                12
7   An Caisleán Glas Naoimh Pádraig        11
8   Moortown St Malachy's           11
9   Owen Roe O`Neill's GAC, Leckpatrick10
10   Strabane Sigersons                         10
11   Aghyaran                                         9
12   Beragh Red Knights GAA                 6
13   Cookstown Fr. Rock's GAA                 6
14   Stewartstown Harps                         6
15   Urney St Columba's                         5
16   Newtownstewart St Eugene's         2

Augher St Mac. V Galbally Pear.
Cookstown Fr.. V Strabane Sige.
An Caisleán V Beragh Red Kn.
Loughmacrory V Moortown St M.
Newtownstewar. V Aghyaran
Owen Roe O`Ne. V Urney St Colu.
Pomeroy Plunk V Clogher Eire .
Stewartstown V Gortin St Pat.

Galbally and Pomeroy looking good for Promotion.
Looking like Loughmacrory (who have Galbally still to play), Clogher and Gortin for the play off along with Augher most likely, Greencastle have a tough run in.
Newtonstewart look gone at the bottom, the two teams for the play offs comes between Beragh, Cookstown, Stewartstown and Urney. Beragh without Martin Rodgers look likely to be involved, so one from the other 3 then.

[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?

Let's see... maybe it was the respective league form when both had a full compliment available. On paper Trillick have better players and more firepower. Clonoe have championship pedigree but wouldn't exactly say trillick are greenhorns; they won't be intimidated by anything Clonoe will throw at them. Legal or otherwise. Dromore's performance was brutal on the night but trillick were clinical and can only beat what's in front of them. So all in all, I think it would be a shock if Clonoe came through. Just my opinion, what are the bookies saying?

Trillick 1/4 Clonoe 7/2 Draw 17/2
To put that into perspective, Greencastle are also 7/2 to beat Galbally. So bookies are expecting a comfortable trillick win to.

Was no classic last night but very intense. The early red card for Greencastle spoiled the game as it led to Greencastle having to sit back and concede the Gortin kickout. The red card was even worse as the lineman's identified the wrong man for the yellow.
Thought defensively Greencastle were excellent, Sean Og McAleer wasn't involved in the game from play at all which led to all manner of poor shot selection from others.
It will however take some improvement to get close to Galbally, not sure if Greencastle have the overall team to really challenge. I could see them going with 14 maybe 15 behind the ball to try and stay in it.

Predictions for this weekend then:
Junior:
Eskra V Errigal 3rds
Drumragh V Kildress
Kileeshil V Brockagh
Glenelly V Rock

Intermediate:
Pomeroy V Loughmacrory
Galbally V Aghyaran
Urney V Owen Roes

Moortown V Gortin
Winners V Greencastle