Messages

[farce]

Turning into a farce now, I understand Tyrone and their fans and what this means to them, but this could be a longer period of isolation than what's required.

Do the non vaccers from Tyrone want the game to just go ahead?

Claim it's becoming a farce then ask a question like that? 3 o clock on a Tuesday is a strange time to go fishing

[went straight home after the game]

So did Tyrone players celebrate after winning ulster? If they did then they are to blame themselves for outbreak.
Why if knowing there was covid in camp did they all not get tested in days leading up to ulster final? Was this to avoid any more missing game? If so likely some were playing with covid! The explosion of cases could have possibly been prevented if proper test and tracing was done at start. Not 2 weeks nearly later!

They went straight home after the game..no celebrating done.  No one with covid played in the Ulster Final. There was proper test and tracing done.

Completely false statement. Some out and about drinking after.

Did you witness this , if so where , or are you just a Tyrone hater?

You ever heard of Instagram Jimbob? Probably be hard from all the way up on your high horse there

Did aye....what's the connection? Post evidence of your claims or buck up!

You of all people should know naming and shaming ain't welcome here. But the evidence ain't hard to find old man! Getting off your high horse and your laptop would be a start maybe even get a day's work out of you.

[a mere 7 day]

Anyone else think Tyrone are at it here? They’ve got a few injuries in mcshane, mckenna and canavan and they’re trying to buy an extra week for them to recover.

No, it's definitely not made up but they should just be grateful for the extra week and take their medicine. The rest of the country can't wait until they all fully recover before the game is played. They were never going to beat Kerry anyway even at full health but I'd say neither is there a cat in hells chance of them withdrawing from the championship no matter what side takes the field. It just allows them to get their excuse in early.

Of course they could beat Kerry, don't know where this new view on Kerry has came from that they have suddenly turned unbeatable over night.

Take their medicine?  The rest of the country can wait, who cares when it is played really.  Last year the wait was even longer.  Why should they be grateful of the extra week?  We are in a pandemic and millions have died yet Tyrone should just man up and play on?  Even if the are asymptomatic their performance levels will not be the same, so I would say the GAA has yet again let itself down with regard to player welfare in only giving Tyrone a week to recover.  In saying that, Tyrone have got better treatment than other counties over the past few seasons but that is again down to the dollars involved.

Lets be honest, not many gave Tyrone a chance before this Covid outbreak and even less so now. There is no point in pretending that Tyrone were anything but huge outsiders to win the match to begin with.

As far as taking their medicine the GAA made a fair and reasonable decision to postpone the game by a week. You seem to suggest that the game should be deferred until all of the Tyrone players have fully recovered. So the competition should basically come to a standstill just to placate Tyrone? The 3 other county squads left in the competition will have tailored their seasons to peak at this stage of the championship whilst club players in the 4 remaining counties will be forced to sit on their hands as they wait on Tyrone county players to recover fully so that the AI championship can be completed.

How fair and reasonable a decision is it to postpone the game by a week?  Have the GAA made this decision based on advice received from medical experts?  Going by what I know, and I am far from an expert, there is no way that these players would be 100% within a mere 7 days.  I would argue that the decision to postpone is far from fair and reasonable.

As for waiting, of course they should wait, this is not a standard injury situation and for all we know the players would play and are capable of playing but ultimately there are regulations to adhere to.  Say for talks sake the Tyrone players are all feeling grand and ready to rock, they are not the ones making the calls as to playing the game.  Things haven't been running according to plan in any way of life since the pandemic started, including the GAA.  But you reckon that should all change now and set dates etc. are made irrelevant of the various scenarios that will arise?

There is definitely some people in this thread whose children, if they are anything like their parents, will be getting 3 Ds in their a levels today. It's not 7 days it is an extra 7 days. If the outbreak occurred on Sunday, then it will be 13 days until the game - not a 'mere 7'.

Here we go... I can rant and rave all day about how the GAA is becoming more and more like soccer. This thread is just another example. What is the need really? Just another salary on a county team.

[went straight home after the game]

So did Tyrone players celebrate after winning ulster? If they did then they are to blame themselves for outbreak.
Why if knowing there was covid in camp did they all not get tested in days leading up to ulster final? Was this to avoid any more missing game? If so likely some were playing with covid! The explosion of cases could have possibly been prevented if proper test and tracing was done at start. Not 2 weeks nearly later!

They went straight home after the game..no celebrating done.  No one with covid played in the Ulster Final. There was proper test and tracing done.

Completely false statement. Some out and about drinking after.

Did you witness this , if so where , or are you just a Tyrone hater?

You ever heard of Instagram Jimbob? Probably be hard from all the way up on your high horse there

Cancel the championship and split the all ireland four ways. It's the only logical outcome. Player welfare is more important.

I agree. I also believe the four MOTM from the provincial finals should split the POTY award four ways. Only fair. Either that or give it to Darren McCurry

Nonsense. Avoid changing rooms, meeting rooms, and car sharing, and you'll be following guidance.

As a manager you may want a 3-hour video review session with 36 players and 10 back room staff all involved.

As a citizen of the world in the past 18 months, it should be easy enough to understand the potential consequences.

If people are unwilling to do things a little differently in Covid times, then they shouldn't be doing things at all.

Avoid all contact, wear a mask and keep 2m distance as well don't forget. Impossible to do.

Sad times, a match a lot of people looking forward to.

Not to forget, and i presume this is the case, a lot of them cant train either. I see they requested 2 week postponement to denied, should they have got the 2 weeks?

Another soft all Ireland for Kerry if the match doesn't go ahead, just like all the All Irelands won in the 70s/80s. 

The difficulty for administrators here is that if they grant a 2 week furlough to Tyrone, and then Kerry fall similarly asunder just before the rescheduled fixture, then the same discretion would have to be applied to Kerry. And then we would end up not only with an AI final at the end of September, but a gap of 5 weeks for the winners of Mayo and Dublin to wait out.

There's no perfect way to do things with sport and Covid. Because no matter what you do, it's unfair.

Cruel as it may seem, I think we should always rule/fall in favour of teams who don't fall to Covid. Avoiding a small Covid outbreak is a matter of luck, no doubt at all. Avoiding a full scale team outbreak though probably requires more along the lines of commonsense / acceptance of the guidelines, than actual luck. These lads do not have to spend 8 hrs a day in a meat factory together.

At least in a meat factory you can social distance... it is impossible to train GAA whilst social distancing, especially in the run up to an AI Semi.

[went straight home after the game]

So did Tyrone players celebrate after winning ulster? If they did then they are to blame themselves for outbreak.
Why if knowing there was covid in camp did they all not get tested in days leading up to ulster final? Was this to avoid any more missing game? If so likely some were playing with covid! The explosion of cases could have possibly been prevented if proper test and tracing was done at start. Not 2 weeks nearly later!

They went straight home after the game..no celebrating done.  No one with covid played in the Ulster Final. There was proper test and tracing done.

Completely false statement. Some out and about drinking after.

Oh no. Lock them up...

Nothing wrong with a drink they are are just right. Just no point people on here saying they went straight home after the game - who are they trying to fool?

[went straight home after the game]

So did Tyrone players celebrate after winning ulster? If they did then they are to blame themselves for outbreak.
Why if knowing there was covid in camp did they all not get tested in days leading up to ulster final? Was this to avoid any more missing game? If so likely some were playing with covid! The explosion of cases could have possibly been prevented if proper test and tracing was done at start. Not 2 weeks nearly later!

They went straight home after the game..no celebrating done.  No one with covid played in the Ulster Final. There was proper test and tracing done.

Completely false statement. Some out and about drinking after.

They badly burned a starred game after the National League semi final. Should have been non starred fixture meaning we would be one game ahead now.

1st round of champ is 19th September apparently 
Probably +1 week now

Didn't burn anything. County players are not allowed to play club football during county season unless agreed with county management. No way would they have allowed all players to play 1 league club game 3 weeks out from championship in their first season.
That is the whole idea behind the split season. It allows club football to continue without county players but unfortunately Tyrone clubs won't agree and will only accept a certain amount of starred games. Every other county plays away without their county men

What counties? Unsuccessful ones?

Louth trying to implement the same system... mickey moneybags trying his best to damage another county's league system.

Does the PP of the semi final and the final being put back a week mean that IF Tyrone beat Kerry the ACL would struggle to be completed in Div 2 this year OR we'll need 2 x mid week fixtures. Not sure what way they'd fit it in. The extra 2 x games played in Div 1 means it'll just about squeeze in.

21st Aug   Sat   All Ireland Semi Final
28th Aug   Sun   Blank
4th Sept   Sat   All Ireland Final
12th Sept   Sun   Round 8
19th Sept   Sun   Round 9
26th Sept   Sun   Round 10
3rd Oct   Sun   Round 11
10th Oct   Sun   Round 12
17th Oct   Sun   Round 13
24th Oct   Sun   Championship 1st
31st Oct   Sun   Championship QF
7th Nov   Sun   Championship SF
14th Nov   Sun   Championship Final
20th Nov   Sun   Ulster First Rnd

Why are all league games changed to Sunday as opposed to Friday?

Confirmed AISF and Final pushed back a week!

Could have pushed it back to 2008 to give Tyrone a decent chance of winning it.

If players have COVID a 1 week delay would not be much time to recover from it.

The match was originally scheduled for Sunday (a week from the outbreak) and now with the rescheduling to Saturday week there is now 13 days until the game. Jesus christ  use your head man

Wonder would Mickey be free to manage?!

I'd say he would manage for 1 game as long as he got his £1,000 pay check on the way out

First thing to do would probably be lay off the cannabis snoop, you're getting paranoid.