Tyrone County Football and Hurling

[Fuzzman]

Darragh Canavan's performance on Sunday reminded me of Peter in his day.
Taking men on, jinking this way then that. Able to turn off either foot and score.
He looks to be taking on a lot more responsibility for shooting this year and his haul of 10 points was very impressive.
With him and McCurry in top form we are probably all underestimating how lucky we are to have these two lads on such fine form.

Of course when you have one or two top scoring forwards, then others tend not so shoot as much and is probably why our half forward line hasn't been great so far. Was delighted to see Ruairi getting some game time and a few scores as well. He's still very young and inexperienced at this level of course.
I don't hold much hope for seeing McShane back this year either and think it's a combination of injuries and loss of confidence.

Sludden who I usually like and is worth a few scores also seems like a different player and doesn't seem to have the same energy or work rate as usual. Could it be his last season?
Mattie seems to have got himself back playing well again and seems to play all over the field.

I wonder will the management give up on M.O'Neill and go back to Burns? I am never that impressed with O'Neill.
I agree that our FB, MF and FF lines are quite strong but hopefully McGeary, Burns, Harte and Meyler can raise their games going into the knockout stages now.

I think we've a good starting 15 but our bench is very weak now compared to two years ago.
If we play to our potential and tighten up a bit at the back I think we can beat Donegal but I don't know would we beat Kerry, Dublin or Derry.

[rrhf]

Darragh Canavan's performance on Sunday reminded me of Peter in his day.
Taking men on, jinking this way then that. Able to turn off either foot and score.
He looks to be taking on a lot more responsibility for shooting this year and his haul of 10 points was very impressive.
With him and McCurry in top form we are probably all underestimating how lucky we are to have these two lads on such fine form.

Of course when you have one or two top scoring forwards, then others tend not so shoot as much and is probably why our half forward line hasn't been great so far. Was delighted to see Ruairi getting some game time and a few scores as well. He's still very young and inexperienced at this level of course.
I don't hold much hope for seeing McShane back this year either and think it's a combination of injuries and loss of confidence.

Sludden who I usually like and is worth a few scores also seems like a different player and doesn't seem to have the same energy or work rate as usual. Could it be his last season?
Mattie seems to have got himself back playing well again and seems to play all over the field.

I wonder will the management give up on M.O'Neill and go back to Burns? I am never that impressed with O'Neill.
I agree that our FB, MF and FF lines are quite strong but hopefully McGeary, Burns, Harte and Meyler can raise their games going into the knockout stages now.

I think we've a good starting 15 but our bench is very weak now compared to two years ago.
If we play to our potential and tighten up a bit at the back I think we can beat Donegal but I don't know would we beat Kerry, Dublin or Derry.

Excellent post and sums it all up really. I do think you are being a bit hard on Mickey O Neill. He does a lot of unseen work..

[armaghniac]

Darragh Canavan's performance on Sunday reminded me of Peter in his day.
Taking men on, jinking this way then that. Able to turn off either foot and score.

And like back in the day he hasn't much else on the team around him.

[CK_Redhand]

There was doom and gloom in 2021. Actually, every year as far as I can remember. Win and you're great, lose and you're shite.

[BrotherMore6592]

Darragh Canavan's performance on Sunday reminded me of Peter in his day.
Taking men on, jinking this way then that. Able to turn off either foot and score.

And like back in the day he hasn't much else on the team around him.

Obsessed

[tyrone08]

Darragh Canavan's performance on Sunday reminded me of Peter in his day.
Taking men on, jinking this way then that. Able to turn off either foot and score.

And like back in the day he hasn't much else on the team around him.

Wee Peter was enough for use on many an occasion

[Tyrone2021]

Obv we don't see what's going on in training - it's a selfish point of view here from a fans perspective - but we have a monster of a man in mcgleenan on the bench, why is he on the panel if we won't use him?

Jesus he's a colossus, in at 14 with one or both canavans and McCurry round him for the break, you'd imagine it's worth a try.

Would definitely give other teams something to think about. If it didn't work he could always be subbed off and revert to type.

Mc gleenan hasn't dominated in any club game I've seen him in as of yet, why would he be able to do it in county?

When did you see him playing for the club?

Mcgleenan has played against Carrickmore a few times now, always seems to be matched up against one of our stronger runners and is left chasing shadows. Don't think he's the answer

[RedHand88]

Darragh Canavan's performance on Sunday reminded me of Peter in his day.
Taking men on, jinking this way then that. Able to turn off either foot and score.

And like back in the day he hasn't much else on the team around him.

Must have really hurt you to get beat by Tyrone in second gear

[Jerome]

Obv we don't see what's going on in training - it's a selfish point of view here from a fans perspective - but we have a monster of a man in mcgleenan on the bench, why is he on the panel if we won't use him?

Jesus he's a colossus, in at 14 with one or both canavans and McCurry round him for the break, you'd imagine it's worth a try.

Would definitely give other teams something to think about. If it didn't work he could always be subbed off and revert to type.

Mc gleenan hasn't dominated in any club game I've seen him in as of yet, why would he be able to do it in county?

When did you see him playing for the club?

Mcgleenan has played against Carrickmore a few times now, always seems to be matched up against one of our stronger runners and is left chasing shadows. Don't think he's the answer

When was this, because Eglish were Division 2 last year, he would have played very little for them and he hasn't played for Eglish this year yet?
So are you saying a 18 or 19 year old didn't star against one of the leading teams in the county?

[Tyrone11234]

There was doom and gloom in 2021. Actually, every year as far as I can remember. Win and you're great, lose and you're shite.

There no was no gloom this late in the 2021 Championship.

[rrhf]

in June?

[rrhf]

I am looking forward to this game. Absolute do or die.  Genuinely think there is a lot of things starting to go right there as well. We can  improve massively on the things that we were doing wrong.

[Tyrone11234]

There was doom and gloom in 2021. Actually, every year as far as I can remember. Win and you're great, lose and you're shite.

There no was no gloom this late in the 2021 Championship.

The championship hadn't started by this time of year but Tyrone had just suffered a huge league defeat in Killarney.

Obviously not talking about time of the year, deep into championship we had beaten 3 good teams to win Ulster and eventually went on to beat Kerry and Mayo

[ONeill]

Because of what happened 2 years ago, you cannot write this squad off. It's just that you haven't seen more than 20 mins at that level for 2 years now and are hoping it suddenly happens this Sunday

[CK_Redhand]

There was doom and gloom in 2021. Actually, every year as far as I can remember. Win and you're great, lose and you're shite.

There no was no gloom this late in the 2021 Championship.

The championship hadn't started by this time of year but Tyrone had just suffered a huge league defeat in Killarney.

Obviously not talking about time of the year, deep into championship we had beaten 3 good teams to win Ulster and eventually went on to beat Kerry and Mayo

Tyrone were huge underdogs before the semi final versus Kerry. Yes we had won Ulster but nobody gave us a chance for Sam (granted the covid situation played a large part in this).