Tyrone County Football and Hurling

[stillsenior]

Justy played about 15 minutes for Omagh last night coming on as a sub against Donaghmore

[Ty4Sam]

Justy played about 15 minutes for Omagh last night coming on as a sub against Donaghmore

You sure? It was a starred match.

[Ty4Sam]

Justy played about 15 minutes for Omagh last night coming on as a sub against Donaghmore

You sure? It was a starred match.

My mistake, wasn't a starred game.

[RedHandTom]

Who won that Omagh game?

[Ty4Sam]

Omagh won 2-18 to 2-11

[Fuzzman]

Almost two weeks of silence. Is it the quiet before the storm or are people just interested in their clubs for now and not too worried about the county team.

Is McNabb the only injury worry?
I'm expecting us to play the exact same way as last year's final but with maybe Donegal being a bit more adventurous in attack.

[WT4E]

I don't why but I have a bad feeling about Sunday after watching us against Derry and I have a feeling it could be a short summer (1st July) as I predict a bad draw in qualifiers.

Hope I'm totally wrong all the same.

[skeog]

Rory Gallagher at the mind games talking how refs have copped on to unfair treatment MM receives,expect David Coldrick to have noted his concern.

[Redhand Santa]

I've a feeling there is a big performance in Tyrone. Looking at the league games the team looked off the pace in the last few games and hopefully the aim has been for them to peak later this year. We haven't been too far away in recent seasons and hopefully the ulster title and defeating Donegal last year will give them the confidence to push on. I've no problem with us getting men behind the ball but really want to see us attacking more at pace when we are in possession and pushing up more at times on the better teams. Huge day on Sunday which could well shape the season either way.

[Redhand Santa]

Rory Gallagher at the mind games talking how refs have copped on to unfair treatment MM receives,expect David Coldrick to have noted his concern.

They seem to think if Murphy plays out the pitch he isn't allowed to be marked and should be given a free run at it. Given Justy is just back I don't think it will be him doing the marking duties this week.

[bigpackiechestout]

Rory Gallagher at the mind games talking how refs have copped on to unfair treatment MM receives,expect David Coldrick to have noted his concern.

They seem to think if Murphy plays out the pitch he isn't allowed to be marked and should be given a free run at it. Given Justy is just back I don't think it will be him doing the marking duties this week.

I thought McCarron did a good job on Murphy last year, will be interesting to see if he gets the nod again. I think alot of people are forgetting that alot of Donegals players are untested at Championship level, and were very poor in the first half v Antrim. Also, from last years game they are missing Mac Niallais who kicked a couple of great scores. Ryan McHugh kicked 3 scores in the first half last year too but did nothing when Rory Brennan moved onto him in the second half, I would imagine Brennan will be on him from the start this weekend.

Anyone got any insight on how Matty Donnelly has been playing for Trillick this year? He didn't play well throughout the league (didn't help that he was stuck in FF getting very little service) and was quiet v Derry so hoping that he is due a big game for us.

[Fuzzman]

We all know Murphy is Donegal's main player and can have a huge influence on the game.
This is why Mickey usually assigns someone to mark him tightly with a lot of effort being put in to put him off his game and often block his runs etc.
We need to be careful though that someone doesn't pick up a black (or red) card in doing so as we saw happen last year between Connolly and Lee Keegan. I thought McCarron dealt with him quite well last year without the nonsense Justy was up to a few years back.
Going a man down to Donegal could be the losing of the game and players like Mattie and Sludden seem to be picking up a lot of cards in the last year.

Mattie has frustrated the hell out of me for a good while now and maybe it's because I expect too much from him or that he's often a marked man now for special treatment and as we know he doesn't like to shirk the tougher side of his game.

I see in the Irish News, Sean is joining Mickey in his denial of their defensive style of play and saying he thinks people will see a different Tyrone this year. I think they tend to point at the high amount of points they score as an indicator but as we saw you can still play a very defensive system and get high scores against the weaker teams.

[nrico2006]

Rory Gallagher at the mind games talking how refs have copped on to unfair treatment MM receives,expect David Coldrick to have noted his concern.

They seem to think if Murphy plays out the pitch he isn't allowed to be marked and should be given a free run at it. Given Justy is just back I don't think it will be him doing the marking duties this week.

I thought McCarron did a good job on Murphy last year, will be interesting to see if he gets the nod again. I think alot of people are forgetting that alot of Donegals players are untested at Championship level, and were very poor in the first half v Antrim. Also, from last years game they are missing Mac Niallais who kicked a couple of great scores. Ryan McHugh kicked 3 scores in the first half last year too but did nothing when Rory Brennan moved onto him in the second half, I would imagine Brennan will be on him from the start this weekend.

Anyone got any insight on how Matty Donnelly has been playing for Trillick this year? He didn't play well throughout the league (didn't help that he was stuck in FF getting very little service) and was quiet v Derry so hoping that he is due a big game for us.

Thats what I think alot of people are failing to see.  This is not the Donegal of the past 6 years and they have not done anything yet to warrant the fear the previous team did.  Who all has retired from the Donegal team over the past two years?

[tiempo]

We all know Murphy is Donegal's main player and can have a huge influence on the game.
This is why Mickey usually assigns someone to mark him tightly with a lot of effort being put in to put him off his game and often block his runs etc.
We need to be careful though that someone doesn't pick up a black (or red) card in doing so as we saw happen last year between Connolly and Lee Keegan. I thought McCarron dealt with him quite well last year without the nonsense Justy was up to a few years back.
Going a man down to Donegal could be the losing of the game and players like Mattie and Sludden seem to be picking up a lot of cards in the last year.

Mattie has frustrated the hell out of me for a good while now and maybe it's because I expect too much from him or that he's often a marked man now for special treatment and as we know he doesn't like to shirk the tougher side of his game.

I see in the Irish News, Sean is joining Mickey in his denial of their defensive style of play and saying he thinks people will see a different Tyrone this year. I think they tend to point at the high amount of points they score as an indicator but as we saw you can still play a very defensive system and get high scores against the weaker teams.

What nonsense was that then?

[The Bearded One]

I assume it was the same nonsense McGee was at with Sean Cavanagh...marking him tightly, over stepping the mark more than once...trying to remove the influence of the oppositions key player...unfortunately that is overlooked and only Justy Mc is ever talked about...!