Tyrone County Football and Hurling

[sensethetone]

Any word of HP McGeary's injury? Hopes he recovers quickly.

[LeoMc]

Tyrone have to go to ta to with Dublin now. They are the only team who are capable of turning them over. Lee Brennan putting Jonny cooper on his ass a few times in front of the hill. To think that group of mayo players came so close to an All Ireland? Maurice Deegan was a disgrace today. Dangerous play has to be cut out from the game. Young mcgeary was done and a straight red the only option.

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[omagh_gael]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/northern-ireland/43452648

Appears that he may have a stress fracture or heavy brusing. Hopefully, it's the later.

LeoMc, I'm assuming he meant toe to toe. Although, had a wee chuckle at the part about Lee sticking Cooper on his arse.

Btw, deadly to see Lee at the top of the scoring charts. Fair play to the lad! Not too often we are a Tyrone man in that position. You could argue that Harte should have had him in earlier, however, I think he's went about it the right way. Last year seemed to early for him and knocking about the fringes of the panel has obviously helped him.

If we can get Mark Bradley and Skeet more involved in front of the posts we could make good inroads this year.

[RedHand88]

Tyrone have to go to ta to with Dublin now. They are the only team who are capable of turning them over. Lee Brennan putting Jonny cooper on his ass a few times in front of the hill. To think that group of mayo players came so close to an All Ireland? Maurice Deegan was a disgrace today. Dangerous play has to be cut out from the game. Young mcgeary was done and a straight red the only option.

Unbelievably, they could have had 3 or 4 all Ireland's at this stage. We are not that far behind winning one.

[In hiding]

Tyrone have to go to ta to with Dublin now. They are the only team who are capable of turning them over. Lee Brennan putting Jonny cooper on his ass a few times in front of the hill. To think that group of mayo players came so close to an All Ireland? Maurice Deegan was a disgrace today. Dangerous play has to be cut out from the game. Young mcgeary was done and a straight red the only option.

Unbelievably, they could have had 3 or 4 all Ireland's at this stage. We are not that far behind winning one.

On the basis that we beat Mayo in the league in March ??
Galway drew with Dublin yesterday, where does that leave them ?
Tyrone are a good side. Better than most in the country. For the last 3 or 4 years now the same idiots keep telling us all how close we are to winning the AI. Why don't we all just sit back and see how it goes

[Taylor]

Solid performance and Brennan shows the class that he undoubtedly has.

Just to temper everyones expectations we are super when we go head to head with a team but are we fit for it in CP?

I dont think our defence is as good as Mayo's yet which allows them go toe to toe with Dublin

[trileacman]

To be fair to Harte he's tempered lee nicely into senior football. How often have we seen young talents thrown into the deep end only to watch them flounder? I've a feeling Kerry are doing that with Clifford. Donnelly's form is carrying us through this league nicely, would be lost without him.

Hope Hugh pat's injury isn't serious, we need him in the starting team. Meyler is a finer half back than half forward.

[tiempo]

To be fair to Harte he's tempered lee nicely into senior football. How often have we seen young talents thrown into the deep end only to watch them flounder? I've a feeling Kerry are doing that with Clifford. Donnelly's form is carrying us through this league nicely, would be lost without him.

Hope Hugh pat's injury isn't serious, we need him in the starting team. Meyler is a finer half back than half forward.

Will Meyler and Harte keep McCann out when fit again?

[RedHand88]

Donnelly and Harte seemed to be involved in everything yesterday. They are going to be key in the championship.

[inroundthesquare]

To be fair to Harte he's tempered lee nicely into senior football. How often have we seen young talents thrown into the deep end only to watch them flounder? I've a feeling Kerry are doing that with Clifford. Donnelly's form is carrying us through this league nicely, would be lost without him.

Hope Hugh pat's injury isn't serious, we need him in the starting team. Meyler is a finer half back than half forward.

Clifford already looks like Kerry's best forward, can't see him floundering too much

[Lamh Dhearg Alba]

Mayo were a bit of a shambles yesterday and got worse as it went on with the loss of influential players, but it was still another encouraging display. Tyrone do have plenty of fine footballers in attack, whatever anyone has argued in recent times, and with the right style can hurt teams. Important to put in a decent display against Kerry now.

[bigpackiechestout]

Mayo were a bit of a shambles yesterday and got worse as it went on with the loss of influential players, but it was still another encouraging display. Tyrone do have plenty of fine footballers in attack, whatever anyone has argued in recent times, and with the right style can hurt teams. Important to put in a decent display against Kerry now.

Agreed, definitely encouraging stuff yesterday. Whilst we played some good stuff in the early part of the League last year we were still going into the championship without having beaten any of the big 3 in a couple of years so I think yesterday's victory will do our confidence the world of good.

Definite caveats apply in that Mayo were missing a host of key men as the game went on but they still had plenty of experience on the pitch and it shouldn't be forgotten that we were missing Colm Cav, Tiernan McCann and Ronan McNamee from last year's championship team. Three of our big leaders so do perform like that without them is encouraging.

Great to see Lee finishing like that against big opposition, he skinned all star full back Ger Cafferkey for his goal and point from play and I think he will only improve as the year goes on and ball gets drier.

It would be great to beat Kerry now at the weekend and really go into the Championship on a high and with serious competition for places!

[omagh_gael]

The forward play is really encouraging but I'm starting to get a feeling we're beginning to see the development of some real good options in corner back. HP has been in flying form and McKernan had impressed me a lot. Hampsey and Burns look to be holding the spine of the defence really well, too.

Serious competition for places all over the field now.

[Tyrone Dreamer]

At least a few wins keeps the anti harte anti system hysteria away for a while. As I've said before you never read too much into the league but it's been an encouraging couple of displays which will give the team a lot more confidence entering the championship. A couple of big positives from the league are:

- A number of players who weren't previously in the first 15 have stepped up in recent weeks - particularly the lads from the last u21 win - Burns, McShane, Meyler, Brennan. Hugh Pat and McKernan have also did well. The team definitely needed freshened up with more options so this has been encouraging. Burns has made a great start to the number 6 role.
- Our tactics have definitely been tweaked from last year. They have throughout the year but because we were losing games early in the league people who weren't attending the games just kept throwing out the same lines from recent years. We are pushing up more and more on kickouts which is great to see as it can allow you dominate for spells of a game. I just hope come the championship we are brave enough to do it against the top teams and not half push up like against Dublin last year.
- It's great to have a finisher inside like Brennan who can convert chances. He does need to keep working on the frees as he has missed 4 or 5 in the last few games that you need to be scoring. He will also find the championship a big step up like McCarron from Monaghan did last year. But he has shown a lot of promise so far.

Onto this weeks game and I'm sure Harte will be targeting a win to keep momentum up. However, he'll also need to give players a run out to ensure a lot of players get game time. I'd go with something like this:

O'Neill
McNamee
Hampsey
McKernan
R Brennan
Burns
Meyler
Cavanagh
McClure
McGeary
Mulgrew
Mattie
Brennan
McAliskey
O'Neill

[GetOverTheBar]

Fair play to Tyrone, didn't think they would get anything in Castlebar personally. Didn't see the game so can't comment too much although as previously mentioned, Mayo are a different side in the summer.

Still though, encouraging signs.