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Tyrone bingo card USFC vs Armagh

1. Aidy Clarke to be named in starting team but doesn't start

About 10 years ago in an extremely affluent and leafy part of Blighty I saw a police wagon stationed 100m from a synagogue with the words 'antisemitism surveillance unit' emblazoned on the side. Funny how resources are assigned so specifically to one creed in an area with practically zero crime on a nondescript random Summers evening, in comparison to the lack of resources and proliferation of food banks in areas with abject poverty < 5 miles over the road

If Cork and Meath can fall to shite for as long as they have then Tyrone have no devine right to be at the top table any time soon, into Man Utd territory, the players aren't for changing, full factory reset needed, Peter the only man for it and thats blue sky thinking

Under the cosh for a full 10mins before the opening goal with left side being ripped to pieces and wasn't fit to change it

Has a very specturmy tendency to change it on 60mins, goal was conceded on 58.5mins or so, total bullshite when you're literally waiting on the clock to make the change

Wouldn't blame Kepa, noone deliberately makes a mistake, game was lost on the line simple as

For the amount of deputy GK who never got a look in even in McKenna Cup as Niall started virtually every game, its a shame to see the toys thrown out when he's expected to take a reserve role for a game or 2

If there's issues with mgmt/method fair enough to some extent, but players the world over in all codes rarely look in the mirror to see what they can do to improve, possibly a systems failure on multiple fronts at this point, players mgmt. board

Paul Donnelly or Peter Canavan to follow on?

Rice is a very good player but he wouldn't lace the boots of the very best.
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His physicality is something else, doesn't seem to tire, a couple of times he's run top class operators into the ground, against the top 1% with that added guile he'll get caught a bit, but not for lack of willing, such a driving force and I think he makes the players round him better which is a huge intangible

Interesting that not much ball being directed to Saka of late, has gone off the boil, hopefully springs back into life now sooner than later, has played a ton of football without much break the last 5 or 6 years

Arsenal v Leverkusen, Ally is Rice the best MF in the world?

That a week after Valverde scored a hat trick v City

You couldn't be up them

Just makes the inevitable World Cup fail even funnier

Especially when they'll get totally bossed in MF by the first decent team they come up against

Kyle well fit to play the quarterback role and nail his fair share of 2 pointers from downtown

Best back 4 is Califiroi, Gabriel, Saliba, Timber

I hope Califiroi is being managed so that when it comes to the crunch in Euro semi he's fit and raring

Lewis-Skelly could unlock the left side if played in left wing, but it'll never happen

If this was 1990/91 Timber would be a forward in the mould of Kevin Campbell, serious unit and a v good all round baller

What he's doing at RB currently is kind of awesome to watch, but he also feels like a luxury and yes definitely at times is in 9 and 10 positions when it should be other players there to finish off moves

Kyle Coney could do a job at 11, spraying it

Problem they're gonna have with a few, and Elliot Anderson is a case in point, there's the English player tax, buying from another English club tax, and the Man Utd tax. You could end up getting rinsed for north of £80m, if thats the case I'd tell them to get te fk and go to the continent with £30m for someone functional, the players are out there in abundance

I'd also be doing an extensive trawl of captains from U21 and senior international teams, including marginal nations, and a dossier on who the next captain is likely to be when the current captain is finished up - they need to recruit the right type of personalities, any more Sancho Rashford types just starts the cycle again

I always think of the MON Celtic UEFA Cup final team, they had something like 8 or 9 international captains and were a hardened unit, possibly one of the top 10 teams in Europe at the time? In another timeline it could have been Celtic winning UEFA and CL back to back 2003/2004

Need Elliot Anderson big time

Would also take a nibble at Ezri Konsa, van de Ven, Jarrod Bowen and the boul Troy Parrot

Is Malachy too nice?

War chest inbound, Carrick massively deserves it.

A lot of talk about needing an experienced gaffer/proven world class candidate.

I can't understand how no-one has referenced the similarity between Carrick and Arteta and how giving someone a chance is just as valid as going after a name.

Major work needed across the squad and could take 3-4 years to get into the sort of position Arsenal are in, recruitment will be the biggest determining factor in outcomes, has his work cut out, another year out of Casemiro would be a good start

Limpar