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Frank McGuigan and em........ Pat Spillane.

0.8 1.5 now. Two YC in Mon FB line now, wonder will they have to bring Corey bck again?

Good quick series of points from Mon, 3 up again 1.5 to 0.5.

Lot of their footpasses into forward line not great though.

Gppd save, Woods should have took his point. Kerry FB line doing well. Some 'meaty' challenges. Mon need to keep discipline though, giving Kerry handy frees.

Harsh tellow for Mone, but Clerkin lucky to get away with high tackle on the Tyroneman.

Monaghan wasting too much ball, think Kerry will claw them back soon, Mon still 3 up though.

Never saw a team win as much ball in MF and still lose a half so badly as Derry in 2nd half.

Good qualifier team though....

Come on Doire!

Cheers Zig... I know it must be hard... it certainly was for me going to watch youse a couple of years ago!

Difficult to say, but we are Ulster people. I'll be backing Derry and Monaghan now for Sam.

Ziggy et al., you should be ashamed of yourselves, win a couple of Sams and we are going soft. You can be damn sure no one on the other side of the Sperrins was doing anything other than cheering on Meath  last Saturday. Let's not get too carried way and let the anti-Ulster chip on the shoulder of Spillane and co. rob us of our true nature.

Come on the DUBS!!

Could have stolen the game in the 2nd half, if the forwards had been less profligate, but it wouldn't have been deserved. Lack of Dooher's drive and McGuigan's creativity led to the forwards playing individually and not putting together any decent moves. Mulligan and Cavlan had very poor games, after his goal Mulligan missed a few points at a really crucial stage. Reminded me a lot of the Mayo game in 2004, got a goal(s) and couldn't build on it.

Cavlan was the perfect FF for Fay to mark. Thought McCullagh had a decent game and Mulgrew in the first half, but that's about it, didn't see much of Mellon at all.

I thought Ulster was all that we were going to get this year, so better to get it over with now rather than in the final.

Seems like the winner will come from the other side of the draw, but Meath have a lot of potential so I wouldn't rule them out.

This Mike Sheehy character is some bitter bollix

tyssam5, was there any need for this personalized insult ?

Yes, there was a need, you patrol Tyrone issues with an agenda and contribute nothing positive to your own county's threads, therefore you are indeed a 'bitter bollox'.

I think Carlin might carrying a bit of an injury which may have made leaving him out easier. Interesting to see how McCaul goes, was talking to a Fermanagh back the other day and his opinion was that the Meath forwards weren't as good as was being made out. MH always seems to comes up with something new in the backs around the QF time, lets hope this moves works out.

I was in Nice at time of AIF last Sept. Could'nt find a place in Nice, but I watched in a nice wee bar in Cannes, dead easy to take the train from Nice to Cannes and bar is 10 minute walk from the station.

Can't remember the name right now, will look on Setanta's website see if it jogs the memory.

So do you think this kind of "tactic" is justified or not ? Do you not think that shaking the had of your opposite number before and after the game is one of the most important of sporting gestures..?

If that goes then there isnt much hope for the game, at least from a sporting context.

This Mike Sheehy character is some bitter bollix, over here posting on the Tyrone v. Meath thread, which is already a healthy 19 pages.

You'd think he might want to contribute his erudite opinions on the paltry 5 page Kerry v. Monaghan thread, but no, I don't see a single contribution from him over there.

Must be waiting till the final.

Yep Kerry's to lose.

People are saying Tyrone are 'home and hosed', ridiculous.

Why did Tyrone beat Kerry in 2005? In my opinion, the difference between two fairly even matched sides was the Tyrone had the better scoring forwards. In 2007 Tyrone are without Canavan and McGuigan, and O'Neill is nowhere approaching the form of that year due to persistent injuries. Meanwhile Kerry have added Donaghy to their equation and have MFR back in form.

Maybe the only plus is that Kerry have a new man on the line and Tyrone still have Harte.

A lot of people chatting about various mistakes being made, just wondering about the weather before the game, as I was watching on the internet from a fair distance away. Seemed to me that from the start the surface was giving players bother and they were getting some bad bounces when trying to run with the ball?

Hmmm, 30 posts on this thread and 11 of them are by the gent who started it, that's 36%.

These Kerry hoors just love themselves don't they.