Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[gerry]

zigg feck all friendly about that

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zigg feck all friendly about that

Just by name

Nah, Greencastle and Carrickmore have a good relationship. We they very good in the build up to the All-Ireland.

[Norf Tyrone]

Breaking News!

Carrickmore Win All-Ireland

Greencastle's title contoversy!

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Teamtalk U-14 FL Fixtures
02 Mar 2008




Teamtalk U-14 FL Rd 2 - Saturday 8th March 2008 @11am
Naomh Mhuire v Dungannon (In Edendork)
Coalisland v Clonoe
Donaghmore v Cookstown
An Charraig Mhór v Dromore
Errigal Ciaran v Cappagh
Strabane v Omagh
Galbally v Greencastle
Moortown v Augher
Aghyaran v Beragh
Trillick v Loughmacrory
Ardboe v Rock
Kildress v Moy
Eskra v Tattyreagh
Eglish v Killeeshil
Glenelly v Drumragh
Newtownstewart v Owen Roe's
Aghaloo v Derrylaughan
Brackaville v Brocagh
Urney v Clann Na nGael
Omagh B v Castlederg (In CBS Park)

http://www.tyronegaa.ie/youth/football/news/story.jsp?newsid=418

[orangeman]

Any challenge matches this weekend ?

[ziggysego]

Greencastle were supposed to play Carrickmore on Friday night, but it was called off due to the bad weather. Played Fortglen this afternoon though.

What about Arboe Orangeman?

[KIDDO 4]

Foreglen perhaps.

[ziggysego]

Foreglen perhaps.

Eh, yeah 

[tyrone86]

from the Sunday Tribune




IT'S four years to the day now since the GAA world quaked, their world changed and his time in this world passed. And even now the aftershocks of Cormac McAnallen's death can be felt.

He was more than a player or even a leader; he was a life force, an enforcer, an ethos, and with all that, Tyrone could well have withstood the retirement of Peter Canavan and the most decimating injury list known to football to play well into August this past two years.

Instead the county is staring at, if not quite an abyss, at least mediocrity, possibly even historical obscurity. "I don't want to be looking back in 10 years' time having won only one All Ireland, " McAnallen had told his teammates the previous month when he was announced as team captain. "And I know neither do any of you." As it turned out most of them managed to land a second but they all know he wouldn't have been happy with that either.

It was greatness, not mere silverware, he sought and it was greatness they had in their grasp. Now they're in danger of letting it slip and smash. A team that we'd all assumed in 2005 had conclusively proven they were the biggest of the Big Three, the best of the best, virtual certainties to be remembered as the team of the decade, could now well watch . . . and ultimately, facilitate . . . Kerry winning a three-in-a-row on their beat.

Should that come to pass, the price is a tarnished legacy. For a side once destined for the kind of elevated status reserved for O'Dwyer's Kerry let alone Heffo's Dubs, in the collective memory they would be dismissively categorised as a good team, not a great one who couldn't win an All Ireland without Peter Canavan.

That will be a shame and rather unfair on this generation of Tyrone player and manager, including the latter charge. There was a time alright when Tyrone could hardly win a game without Canavan.

Going into the 2003 All Ireland final, the team had lost only three of its previous 33 league and championship games in which Canavan had been on the field for more than 30 minutes, while they'd lost five of the previous eight games in which he hadn't.

But going into the 2005 All Ireland final, Canavan had only played more than 30 minutes twice in their previous 33 games and they'd lost only six of those other 31 games. Canavan ensured they won the 2005 All Ireland final but they pretty much got to that final themselves.

Now they can't . . . without McGuigan or O'Neill. In time the more discerning football historians may well decree that the wonder of this Tyrone team wasn't that they failed to win another All Ireland post-Canavan but managed to win one post-Cormac.

It's also a bit glib to accuse this crop of players of underachievement. Thirteen of the under-21 All Ireland-winning team of 2001 won senior All Irelands in '03 or '05. When else has one underage team produced so many players for an All Ireland-winning team?

And players of that quality as well as quantity? When you look at what those minors of '97 and '98 and under-21s of '00 and '01 did in those underage years and the weighting one must give to their subsequent success at senior level, they're probably the greatest underage football team in history.

Tyrone's problem hasn't been so much that the class of '97 to '01 has underachieved but that they've been overreliant on that class, the notion of a Tyrone conveyer belt being a myth. True, the county won minor All Irelands in 2001 and 2004, but were they any better than the victorious Derry side of 2002?

But yet, criticism of that class is not without merit.

Some of them have slacked off and some of them, most notably O'Neill, are burned out, as Harte's relentless grind and pursuit of the next win, be it Ulster minor league, Hastings Cup, McKenna Cup, continued. Maybe it was the only way Tyrone could have won any All Ireland but it has come at a cost.

Right now they appear to be where their opponents today, Galway, were around the time the two counties served up those classic league semi-finals in 2004 . . .

a formidable team still capable of winning provincial titles and reaching league finals, but, with a core group of key players prematurely jaded and a great manager possibly staying on that year or two too long, the days of winning All Ireland finals and even contesting All Ireland semi-finals seem things of the past.

As unimaginable as it may seem, there are sections of the Tyrone support who believe the county would now be best served without Harte and instead replaced with a Peter Canavan-Paddy Tally dream ticket.

Harte though knows how fickle the Tyrone support can be. There were sections of that support who objected to him getting the job in the first place before he went on to win the 2003 All Ireland and they abused his son, Mark, and his family months before he won the 2005 All Ireland.

This is his 18th successive year coaching a Tyrone county team, and his 12th working with the core of the team, leaving him open to the hazards and charge of Same Voice Syndrome, yet at the start of this season the players let it be known that with Harte staying on, they wanted to hear more of that voice, particularly on the training ground.

Though no GAA manager had ever before highlighted or articulated so distinctly the benefits of listening and communicating with players . . .

"Feedback is the breakfast of champions" a signature mantra and philosophy of his . . . the players felt he had to become more hands-on and vocal during sessions, like the underage days, and offered more specific individual guidance.

Systems have been put in place to cultivate that. The panel is making systematic use of the Tracker diary which Harte has been promoting in recent months, while each month each player formally reviews with the backroom team how their individual game is progressing.

At the back they've tightened up with PJ Quinn looking a bona fide man-marker.

Philip Jordan and Ryan McMenamin are showing signs of their 2005 form. Sean Cavanagh's return to midfield will see him take scores and create scores. Up front, Enda McGinley appears to have discovered the zest and energy of 2005.

The key will be Brian McGuigan. He's been shining in training lately and this week hopes to get the allclear from his specialist to commence full-out competitive action. If he returns, it's a new team with a plethora of new possibilities, a bit like how Ciaran McDonald's return in the summer of 2004 transformed Mayo from being also-rans into a serious team.

They can't yet be written off, but if they don't get back to an All Ireland semi-final this year, then they will. By history at least.

[Bensars]

good article.

Pretty accurate IMO of where tyrone are at the minute.

[tyroneboi]

is it true that Paddy Linden has left clogher?

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Greencastle were supposed to play Carrickmore on Friday night, but it was called off due to the bad weather. Played Fortglen this afternoon though.

What about Arboe Orangeman?

Ardboe beat Clan Na Gael in the Ulster Club League yesterday Ziggy

[Gabriel_Hurl]

Teamtalk U-14 FL Rd 1 Results
Naomh Mhuire 9-7 Clonoe 5-3
Cookstown 4-11 Coalisland 2-2
Donaghmore v Dungannon OFF
Cappagh v An Charraig Mhór OFF
Dromore v Strabane OFF
Omagh 5-17 Errigal Ciaran 2-5
Galbally 2-6 Augher 4-5
Pomeroy 3-10 Moortown 1-3
Beragh 6-10 Trillick 5-5
Loughmacrory 7-13 Fintona 5-19
Kildress v Stewartstown OFF
Moy 4-4 Ardboe7-8
Clogher 2-10 Eglish 7-13
Killeeshil v Eskra OFF
Owen Roe's 3-9 Glenelly 0-3
Gortin v Newtownstewart OFF
Brocagh 0-5 Aghaloo 6-12
Derrytresk 4-12 Brackaville 2-6
Castlederg 5-7 Urney 4-6
Michael Cusack's 3-7 Omagh B 1-1

wah-hey!!

[phpearse]

Loughmacrory 7-13 Fintona 5-19

Tasty game there!

[longball]

is it true that Paddy Linden has left clogher?

yes this is true its due to his wife taking ill. it was well understood by the people of clogher not sure who is taking them now thou think someone within the club is doing it