Tyrone County Football and Hurling

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McKernan is a huge loss for Kerry. For me, him and Morgan have been our best players so far this year. Big test for the team - we usually pull something out of the bag when least expected and the form Canavan is in and what McCurry showed from the bench then maybe we have a bit of a chance. Optimistic maybe.

[NotedObserver]

New man in from galbally was quiet at weekend but most struggled to get into the game. Must be showing well in training

McCurry will be in for him from start you'd suspect and as mentioned Cullen also too in from start. Mccarron will be hoping to get a go in the corner as well

[Aaron Boone]

Any word on McShane?

[bogball88]

Any word on McShane?

The Irish News article said it was hoped he could make the squad this weekend

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McShane and Donnelly back on the bench for Sunday.

[NotedObserver]

What was mcshanes injury?

[Lamh Dhearg Alba]

Seanie O'Donnell named too, didn't expect that but really happy his injury clearly nowhere near as bad as it looked.

[seafoid]

There is a feature article in the Irish Times today marking the 20th anniversary of the death of Cormac McAnallen

[ONeill]

Hard to know where we are at after that game today. I'm optimistic and like bits and pieces of what we are seeing. You'd want to know 12/13 starters for the SFC after the league. Not sure if we're there yet. Oguz put his hand up today.

[sam03/05]

If the beat Monaghan will most likely be safe. If they stay in division 1 it will have been a great league
Blooded a lot of new players - almost someone new every week Conal Devlin, Tarlach Quinn, Seanie O Donnell, Ciaran Daly,Aidan Clarke, Joe Oguz, Aodhan Donaghy have all done well, others have had game time such as Lórcan McGarrity, David Mulgrew, Cormac Donnelly,  Ruairi Canavan, Michael McGleenan, Conor Cush to mixed success. But if they stay up with a win v Monaghan then it was a pretty good league.
Add in your McGeary, Burns, Meyler, Mattie Donnelly, Cathal McShane all to come back into contention - then there could be a very competitive squad come  championship. If they are ever all available.

[HokeyPokey]

If the beat Monaghan will most likely be safe. If they stay in division 1 it will have been a great league
Blooded a lot of new players - almost someone new every week Conal Devlin, Tarlach Quinn, Seanie O Donnell, Ciaran Daly,Aidan Clarke, Joe Oguz, Aodhan Donaghy have all done well, others have had game time such as Lórcan McGarrity, David Mulgrew, Cormac Donnelly,  Ruairi Canavan, Michael McGleenan, Conor Cush to mixed success. But if they stay up with a win v Monaghan then it was a pretty good league.
Add in your McGeary, Burns, Meyler, Mattie Donnelly, Cathal McShane all to come back into contention - then there could be a very competitive squad come  championship. If they are ever all available.

There aren't many teams that are as blessed with dangerous forwards like Canavan x2, Donnelly, McCurry, McShane. There should be some serious options to bring off the bench.

Most of the new faces have shown very well in spurts. It's hard to impress in the league, I have numerous memories of the like of Ronan O'Neill and Lee Brennan being completely anonymous during leagues. Several seem to have real pace and that will show more as the ground dries. Hopefully it light a fire under the more experienced heads as they were majorly off the boil the last couple of seasons.

The new format could suit Tyrone. A lot of players now have experience and we will be able to figure out things over a few games hopefully.

[NotedObserver]

Attacking play on the whole has a bit to go yet. It was good to see Oguz running at people today although it didn't always work out he's got the size and speed to cause problems. Conn can still take too much out of it at times

Thought Ben Cullen done well today but Niall Devlin had his hands full on paudie Clifford and couldn't really get near him

[Mikhailov]

Attacking play on the whole has a bit to go yet. It was good to see Oguz running at people today although it didn't always work out he's got the size and speed to cause problems. Conn can still take too much out of it at times

Thought Ben Cullen done well today but Niall Devlin had his hands full on paudie Clifford and couldn't really get near him

Felt sorry for Niall Devlin to be honest. That couldn't have been easy for him - how 3 members of management stood and watched a young lad get destroyed like that without switching him beggars belief.
It hopefully won't dent his confidence too much but it will surely affect any sub defenders who must be asking themselves questions along with the fact that we moved a forward back to replace Petie Harte when he got injured instead of a sub defender. 

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Attacking play on the whole has a bit to go yet. It was good to see Oguz running at people today although it didn't always work out he's got the size and speed to cause problems. Conn can still take too much out of it at times

Thought Ben Cullen done well today but Niall Devlin had his hands full on paudie Clifford and couldn't really get near him

Felt sorry for Niall Devlin to be honest. That couldn't have been easy for him - how 3 members of management stood and watched a young lad get destroyed like that without switching him beggars belief.
It hopefully won't dent his confidence too much but it will surely affect any sub defenders who must be asking themselves questions along with the fact that we moved a forward back to replace Petie Harte when he got injured instead of a sub defender. 

Thats a fair point. I was surprised he was still on him after the HT break I was sure they would have made a switch. Niall Devlin has a lot of very good attributes but not sure man marking a player like Clifford is one of them. He seems a confident enough player so hopefully it won't affect him too much.

I think we will beat Monaghan in 2 weeks time. They'll not fear coming to Omagh but I think in a must win game we'll have too much for them.

[GlenMan]

Attacking play on the whole has a bit to go yet. It was good to see Oguz running at people today although it didn't always work out he's got the size and speed to cause problems. Conn can still take too much out of it at times

Thought Ben Cullen done well today but Niall Devlin had his hands full on paudie Clifford and couldn't really get near him

I'd have Cullen nailed on for a start going forward.

Maybe coincidence but we've been at our worst when he hasn't been on the pitch so far (2nd half v Derry, full game v Galway, 1st half v Mayo)

C Devlin, Clarke, Daly, O'Donnell, Donaghy have been big positives so far too