Tyrone V Kildare

[Redhand Santa]

Head to head is unfair. I'm sure if you look at the league the home team is statistically more lilkely to win.

[cadhlancian]

Lads, FFS! Any chance of a "half decent report on the game" , or do you all just wanna talk shite and argue about nothing??

[Dinny Breen]

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Jinxy]

Lads, FFS! Any chance of a "half decent report on the game" , or do you all just wanna talk shite and argue about nothing??

I think you've got your answer.

[Cde]

http://www.teamtalkmag.com/?p=3907

[Dinny Breen]

Not at game but listened to McGeeney's post-match interview after the game and in his own words it was Kildare's worst performance under him, and considering the defeat to Wicklow 3 years ago and the Laois and Down games in the league last year that is saying something. To paraphrase we lacked urgency, direction, poor free taking and our tackling was too high and stupid, Tyrone he said were an a good side with some of the best forwards in the country but we just made it easy for them today. He was not a happy bunny but when a team is a lethargic as he describes you have to look at the training and the mental preparation, not for the first time Kildare got it wrong.

[trileacman]

Team   P   W   D   L   F   A   +/-   Pts
1   Donegal   6   4   2   0   6-79   5-54   28   10
2   Laois   6   4   0   2   5-83   6-61   19   8
3   Tyrone   6   4   0   2   4-75   3-63   15   8
4   Derry   6   4   0   2   5-72   6-79   -10   8
5   Kildare   6   3   1   2   4-65   2-68   3   7
6   Sligo   6   1   1   4   5-71   7-74   -9   3
7   Meath   6   1   0   5   6-63   3-83   -11   2
8   Antrim   6   1   0   5   3-65   6-91   -35   2

the above info re score dif on this thread is wrong, here is the div 2 table as it stands.

We need ourselves, Derry and Laois to win our last games and hope we better Laois' result by four points.

Correct?

More or less or for Derry to drop a point(s) and Laois not to win. Chances of Derry not beating Antrim are close to nil so basically Tyrone need Laois to win but not by much.

Or for Laois to win by 5 and we win by 9. Then laois and tyrone go up. what happens if we win by eight? tied with Donegal on points difference.

[Rocky Mc Guigan]

Can see all 4 teams on 10 points after next weekend-then it's team to get the calculators out

[Aaron Boone]

Can see all 4 teams on 10 points after next weekend-then it's team to get the calculators out

With draws, Kildare can still mathematically get through.

Noone being mid-table is the 'problem'.

[tyroneman]

Was SON injured? Warmed up but never took tracksuit off and looked bit downhearted coming to the sideline at the start.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Was it as one sided as the score suggests? How did the full back line and MF do?

It was that I'd say Fuzzman, and Kildare didn't score at all in the second half until 2 minutes from the end of normal time (they were on 3 points at half-time) when we eased off.

Thought Conor Gormley was (defence) immense today, as was big Joe, and the rest did adequately.

[tyroneman]

Packie - not much to do. Still gives you heartattack when he starts thinking he can play outfield.
Swift - Solid. Gave little away.
Joe - Immense. A Rolls Royce player. Calmness personified.
McCaul - same as swift. Solid.
Ricey - usual shift. Joined in attack as much as possible.
Block - gave Doyle nothing. A world removed from Celtic park.
Davy - excellent. Linked a lot of play always made himself available for a pass.
Cass - improving every game
Hub - another goochesque point. Swivel, hit, over. Good game mixing it in MF
Sean - played well but tendency to carry into trouble. On his game, unmarkable.
Brian - pure class at the heart of everything good about today.
Colm - not great. Handling and decision making suspect. Great point from distance though.
Mugsy - did a lot of work round the pitch smart and effective.
Donnelly - given q chance and took it with both hands brave and busy n
Penrose - great game always showing for ball and linking play. Free taking excellent in difficult conditions

[Club Rossa]

Very accurate summary tyroneman.Gormley and McMahon were brilliant today and McGuigan is in great form too.

[Donnellys Hollow]

Shocking stuff altogether. Tyrone looked really up for it today and Kildare simply didn't want to know. Only Mick Foley can hold his head up.

That beating has been coming down the tracks for a while. Kildare's results have masked what has been a significant decline in performances this year. We're really struggling without Dermot at midfield though that wasn't helped today by Daryl picking up a yellow card for what looked a fair enough hit. He was walking the tightrope after that. Penrose took Mac to the cleaners and he resorted to his bad habits of a few seasons ago in a vain attempt to halt his gallop. Roli, in fairness to him, won a bit of ball and kept showing but I lost count of the number of times he lost it then. Jimmers had his worst game in years and Johnny missed a few shocking frees. Dowling was horsed out of it a few times and Paudie did no better when he came on. Rob Kelly received around two decent passes over the entire seventy minutes. Plenty of issues to address in the next month or so. I'd say Dwyer is already sizing up an ambush from across the Poulaphouca reservoir.

Hard to know how they'll approach the match next week but you'd anticipate some sort of reaction after that rubbish today. I'd start both Conor Brophy and Tomás Connor who were both togged out today and see how they get on. Hopefully Leper will be fit again too - our kickpassing today was dire.

BTW, not to offer this as an excuse for Kildare's abject performance but is that really the second best field in Tyrone? The pitch was in a very poor condition.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

BTW, not to offer this as an excuse for Kildare's abject performance but is that really the second best field in Tyrone? The pitch was in a very poor condition.

No DH, it wouldn't be the second best pitch in the county, but nowhere else would have had the capacity (at such short notice) for the anticipated attendance.