Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[ceol agus peil]

Minor Championship Draw:
Carrickmore vs Omagh
Kildress vs Coalisland

[orangeman]

Intermediate Draw:
Stewartstown vs Eskra
Greencastle vs Moortown/Edendork
Gortin vs Kileshil
Cookstown vs Derrylaugharn

The replay of Moortown and Edendork is at 6.45 and the Dromore Coalisland game at 8.15 in dunmoyle on Friday July 3rd.

Some good clashes there.

[tyrone exile]

Minor Championship Draw:
Carrickmore vs Omagh
Kildress vs Coalisland

Any dates or venues decided?

[KIDDO 4]

No venues for the  minor championship semi finals,  with the games taking place on WedJuly 8th.

[KIDDO 4]

The senior and intermediate quarter finals will not take place until Tyrones elimination from the  All ireland senior footbal championship.

[longball]

What time are the games at in Division 2 on Sunday? they were in the IN yday as 5.15 and 6.45 but think ive seen here that they at 2.15 and 3.45

also is anyone charging into the under 21 games 2nite? i was told to!

[Norf Tyrone]

What time are the games at in Division 2 on Sunday? they were in the IN yday as 5.15 and 6.45 but think ive seen here that they at 2.15 and 3.45

also is anyone charging into the under 21 games 2nite? i was told to!

The games on Sunday are 2.15 and 3.45 I believe.

Not sure about the charging for U21 games... never thought about it to be honest. We have forfeited home venue so it doesn't really affect us anyhow.

[goal and a point]

The senior and intermediate quarter finals will not take place until Tyrones elimination from the  All ireland senior footbal championship.

maybe they should have been playing first round of championship on 3rd July weekend to give clubs more preparation time and then if had to be replays could have been fitted in later. seems to be no rush on the next rounds.

[tyrone86]

JFC:

Fri 19 June @Eglish
Derrytresk v Clogher @ 6.45pm
Brocagh v Aghaloo @ 8.15pm

Sat 20 June @ Dromore
Tattyreagh v Fintona @ 6pm
Drumquin v Errigal Ciaran III @ 7.30pm

Friday 26 June @ An Charraig Mhor
Brackaville v Dregish @ 6.45pm
Glenelly v Dungannon @ 8.15pm

Sunday 28 June @ Strabane
Castlederg v Beragh @ 6pm
Newtownstewart v E.R. O'Neills @ 7.30pm

[bigfrank]

Can anyone post the article from yesterdays irish news about frank the king mc guigan??? Thanks

[Norf Tyrone]

JFC:

Fri 19 June @Eglish
Derrytresk v Clogher @ 6.45pm
Brocagh v Aghaloo @ 8.15pm

Sat 20 June @ Dromore
Tattyreagh v Fintona @ 6pm
Drumquin v Errigal Ciaran III @ 7.30pm

Friday 26 June @ An Charraig Mhor
Brackaville v Dregish @ 6.45pm
Glenelly v Dungannon @ 8.15pm

Sunday 28 June @ Strabane
Castlederg v Beragh @ 6pm
Newtownstewart v E.R. O'Neills @ 7.30pm

Where did you get those fixtures T86?

[bigfrank]

would it be fair to say that there will def not be any championship games played in senior or intermediate before 31st july apart from replays??? Thats wat im thinkin anyway

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Is this the one you mean bigfrank?

To put it Frank-ly, 'The King' still reigns in Tyrone
Against the Breeze
By Paddy Heaney

Last Wednesday night was the first time that I ever really met 'The King'.

Our meeting took place at the Greenvale Hotel.  Following the arson attack on their clubhouse, the Fr Rock's club in Cookstown organised a Championship Chat Show. Paddy Hunter, the host for the evening, introduced the crowd to me, Joe Brolly, Jarlath Burns and "the King himself – Frank McGuigan".

We Irish have a fondness for the wayward genius. The fuzzy black and white shots of George Best skipping around José Henrique in 1968. Paul McGrath, so imperiously cool against the Italians and the sweltering heat of USA '94. And the teary Alex Higgins in his silky green shirt in 1982. All these images are stamped on our collective consciousness. Somewhere in there too is the sight of Frank McGuigan scoring 11 points in the summer of 1984. And let's just say it again for the sake of saying it: five with the right, five with the left, and one with the fist. The ability of these men to rise above the ordinary grants them an almost superhuman quality in the sporting arena.
However, when they are removed from the stage where they are in such command, it's also the inability of these men to live ordinary, mundane lives which makes them so very human.

Having met Frank McGuigan, it's easy to see how he could get more than a little frustrated and bored with the tedium and trivialities of everyday life. Frank has little truck with the games people play. He's probably not a man who specialises in small talk about the weather. Nope. Frank just says exactly what he thinks. And some of Frank's thoughts managed to silence a sometimes raucous crowd in the Greenvale Hotel. Let me set the scene. The discussion didn't start until almost 10 o'clock. About half the patrons watched the Champions League final on the big screen. Mostly young men, they enjoyed a few pints over the three hours before the microphones were turned on.  A more elderly and sober audience then took up the seats around the edges. It was a strange mix. The younger audience, joking and cheering, occupied the seats on the dance floor in front of the panel, while the more reserved and reticent looked on from the periphery. It was like facing a crowd with a split personality.

The night got started with a question about the GPA. Are you for or against them? Joe Brolly was first out of the stalls and he provided a lyrical and pastoral soliloquy about the defining qualities of the GAA. Joe said the GAA is about community, and place, and being part of a shared tradition. "Money would spoil it," said Joe.

Frank was having none of it. He got stuck in to Joe. Frank said the only reason Joe didn't like the GPA was because no-one asked him to run it. He said it was all right for boys like Joe who are "making a fortune of money". Frank said it was different for ordinary players, some of whom were currently out of work. Frank then bellowed at Joe (who was sitting beside him) to confess that he had accepted money ($300 as it turns out) to play football during a weekend in New York. Joe came clean. The barrister was in the dock. The crowd, that was initially all banter and heckles, was slightly shaken by the sheer ferocity of the argument.

Sensing the need to soften the mood, Paddy Hunter moved to more light-hearted subjects, such as the violence in Celtic Park the previous Sunday. Brolly said the rough and tumble in Celtic Park was nothing compared to the Masters game between Derry and Dublin that was played in Glen the day before. "Seamus Downey and the full-back were beating the hell out of each other after five minutes," said Joe. Derry won 0-14 to 0-7. "And how many points did you score, Joe?" asked Frank. "He wants someone to ask him," he said intuitively. "Seven," said Joe with an even wider grin.

At the break, Frank and Joe drank tea and chatted merrily before the ball was thrown in for the second half. Frank didn't take long to get back into the groove. What delighted and infuriated him about the GAA? "Nothing," was his answer to the first question – and a GAA pundit who shall remain nameless was his answer to the second.

People sometimes accuse this column of being controversial. It's not really true. Sitting beside Frank McGuigan, I felt like Kofi Annan. Even Brolly had to raise his game to compete with the six-gunner from Ardboe. There are very few people who don't make some concessions when it comes to presenting their public image. Frank is one. When asked if he would be going to Clones to watch Tyrone and his two sons, his unapologetic response was: "No." And the reason? "I don't go to games where no team gets 'bate'," he said, before outlining his antipathy to the back door.

Not many GAA men who are nostalgic for the good old days of knock-out football are also willing advocates of the GPA. Frank is not easy to pigeonhole. The highlight of the night came towards the end when a slightly inebriated member of the audience asked the panel (myself included) if we would be able to compete in the modern game. Jarlath Burns admitted that he couldn't even call himself a 'catch and kick' footballer. After being made captain of the Armagh team, Jarlath said that Brian McAlinden once told him that the farthest up the pitch he ever wanted to see him was when he went to the middle of the field for the toss. Recalling his performance in a kick-fada competition that was held by his club, Jarlath confessed that he nearly ended up in a different parish and came close to making his way home via Monaghan.

Frank was less conciliatory. He answered the question with a question. "Would you make it in the modern game?" he asked his interrogator. Before the reply could come, Frank continued: "You don't need to answer that, because I managed you – and I know the answer."

The poser of the question took the rebuke in good heart, and raising his pint glass in the air, he said: "I'm the same as you, Frank. I'm too fond of this stuff."  Frank responded with a kind and generous smile. Then, he offered his reply. "Of course, I'd make it today," he said. "I'd make it today because our Brian and Tommy would get the ball into me and I'd swing her over the bar."

And the crowd, as they say, went wild. In Tyrone at least, The King lives.

[tyrone86]

Where did you get those fixtures T86?

They were given out at last nights meeting in Carrickmore.

would it be fair to say that there will def not be any championship games played in senior or intermediate before 31st july apart from replays??? Thats wat im thinkin anyway

Apart from the replays, there'll be no Senior or Intermediate played before Tyrone are knocked out according to the CCC.

[Family guy]

Under 21 Championship (Grade 3) - Beragh 4-9 Fintona 5-12.

Lol sounds like a girls u 12 that scoreline