Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

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cheers frank!

[Gaffer]

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[Siggy]

Mickey Harte was on the sidelines for Tyrone's McKenna Cup game against Donegal on Sunday, less than a week after the funeral of his daughter Michaela, who was murdered while on honeymoon in Mauritius.

In spite of overnight frost rendering the pitch at Healy Park in Omagh unplayable, the Tyrone county board were determined that the game should go ahead.

The venue was switched to Edendork outside Dungannon at around lunchtime on Sunday, with the start time pushed back to 3pm.

In spite of the late change of time and venue, Tyrone's supporters came out in their thousands to show their support for their county team and manager after what had been a traumatic and tragic two weeks.



Wearing black armbands, the Tyrone players took to the field with their manager and went into a huddle before observing a minute's silence as a mark of respect for Harte's late daughter.

As the manager walked to the dugout alone, the crowd demonstrated their sympathy and support with a huge ovation as he took his place on the sideline.

It was Donegal who struck first in the opening minute through midfielder Rory Kavanagh, with Sean Cavanagh replying for the home side two minutes later.

Brian McGuigan, Dermot Carlin and Martin Penrose all found the mark to put Tyrone 3 points ahead before Martin Donnelly found the net in the 11th minute.

Cavanagh and Dermot Molloy then exchanged frees and Martin penrose fired over a score from play to give Tyrone a seven point lead.

It took Donegal until the 20th minute to begin to claw their way back, but they did so in some style with half-back McCloone starting a sequence of eight unanswered scores.

Daniel McLaughlin fired over with a minute left to put the visitors back into the lead.

The first half ended on a sour note when Colm Cavanagh was shown a straight red card following a melee involving players from both sides.

Referee Joe McQuillan blew the half-time whistle immediately after the sending-off, with Tyrone trailing by 0-10 to 1-6 at the break.

In spite of being down to 14 men, Tyrone put in a spirited display in the opening minutes of the second half.

Sean Cavanagh drew the sides level with a free and Aiden Cassidy nudged the home side back into the lead.

Donegal's numerical advantage cancelled out when Neil McGee was sent to the line in the 48th minute and Tyrone responded positively with points from Donnelly and McMenamin extending the lead to three points by the 43rd minute.

A superb save from Donegal 'keeper Paul Durkan denied Cavanagh what looked a certain goal minutes later.

Molloy, McErlean and McFadden exchanged scores with the Tyrone trio of Penrose, McGuigan and Cassidy as Tyrone took the victory by 1-13 to 0-13.

[King Kenny]

Lads,  can you tell me how many teams are relegated and promoted in the leagues in Tyrone?  Is it just based on league position or does the championship winner go up automatically?

[Norf Tyrone]

Lads,  can you tell me how many teams are relegated and promoted in the leagues in Tyrone?  Is it just based on league position or does the championship winner go up automatically?

Championship and league winners go up automatocally. Bottom team goes down, as does one other which is determined via a long, series of play offs between the teams in 2nd and 3rd last plus the teams in 2nd-5th of the other division. Hope that makes sense. It's probably not as complex as it reads there!

[King Kenny]

Thanks for the reply Norf.  Does that mean that you can finish 2nd in the league and not go up,  if a team below you in the league wins the championship?

[Rocky Mc Guigan]

Thanks for the reply Norf.  Does that mean that you can finish 2nd in the league and not go up,  if a team below you in the league wins the championship?

Correct

[King Kenny]

Can you explain more about the play offs then.  Can't get my head around it.

[Rocky Mc Guigan]

In Div2 and 3 teams top team is promoted- as well as chsip winners. Next 4teams play off with the winners meeting team who win the play off between the teams who finish 2nd and 3rd from bottom- clear as mud I know!!

[King Kenny]

So,  to summarise,  it's possible that 3 teams go up?

[Man Marker]

When does the leagues start?

[maximus]

17th of April from what I can mind

[KIDDO 4]

Sunday 30th  January 2011@ 2PM,
Augher v Rock U21grade 2 final.

[blewuporstuffed]

Sunday 30th  January 2011@ 2PM,
Augher v Rock U21grade 2 final.

venue kiddo?

[KIDDO 4]

Dungannon.