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[Will Cavan Cuchulainns give Clonoe a game?]

Will Cavan Cuchulainns give Clonoe a game? likely goin to Kilcoo game anyway,worth going early?

Couldn't see it, wouldn't bother going early

Yeah i expect to see Clonoe win pulling up

Alot of disrespect on this forum by the looks of it towards the Cavan champions.

Think they were 5/1 or so with bookies too.

To beat a seasoned Tyrone senior side in Clonoe who shouldn't be intermediate by right is massive.

What's your definition of a seasoned senior side? Clonoe have been relegated from Tyrone senior football the last 2 seasons they played in it. Only the 16 division 1 clubs play in the senior championship so clonoe and the other 15 div 2 teams play intermediate.

I can see why Cavan have div 1 clubs playing in the intermediate Ulster championship when it's a massive underdog story when the team who finished 4th in division 1 beats Tyrone's 17th best team.

Players i would like to see feature in a Tyrone jersey in 2026:

Paul Donaghy
Ruairi Mccullagh
Michael Rafferty
Danny Fullerton
Conor Oneill
Ethan Jordan
Ciaran bogue
Dalaigh Jones
Conor Cush

Anyone else have any other shouts?

Do you want to see those 7 forwards mentioned to feature instead of Mc curry, darragh, Ruiri, mcelholm, o donnell, Donnelly etc or do you want Tyrone to just play them all and forget about the other positions?

Still all very quiet on new call ups. McCullagh and Joey Clarke so far the only new call ups that have publicly been reported.

McGeary not back until at earliest the end of the league. Meyler and Bradley gone. Futures of Harte, Donnelly, Burns, Brennan, Morgan, McCurry, Hampsey,Michael O'Neill probably all not certain with their age profile.

You'd be expecting there should be 10 plus new faces that weren't on the panel last season for the McKenna Cup. Hopefully guys like Rafferty, McHugh, O'Hare, McGarrity etc see plenty of minutes during the league to bring them on as serious options this year.

Daly from omagh also got the call up along with Clarke and mccullagh from the u20s.

What happened Clonoe- All Ireland favourites out

That's twice in the last 3 years the all Ireland favourites at intermediate and junior (clonoe, Cookstown) haven't won it. They will both have another crack at it in 2 years time.

Congrats to Lough.

Welcome back Liberation.

You were quiet for some time.

Something must be up?

The island back to D1...

Odds on finishing rock bottom next season?

Hope you enjoyed your celebrations liberation

Was thinking you would reply before Liberation considering your first 5 posts where about "the island" not hard to work out where your from. Hope you enjoyed your celebrations also which consist of singing songs about Coalisland.

Wouldn't be a clonoe fan without Coalisland living in their head rent free.

Clonoe I fancy to win Ulster by a country mile. Would like to see them go one step further than Galbally did.

Although, of course avoiding becoming a team like Galbally and earning the yoyo tag if they don't stay up next year.

Yeah clonoe should obviously avoid becoming a team like Galbally who are the only team in the last few years to win an intermediate title and not go straight down the following year.

Galbally have earned the yoyo tag as it's now 2 years in a row they've been the last unbeaten team during the div 1 league and now 2 years in a row they've finished near the top. Being relegated from senior football 4 times in their 76 year history and never being relegated the following year after winning promotion to senior is the definition of a yo-yo club 😂 🙈.

I see a lot of people including Hampsey. I know he's had injury after injury since the AI win. But me personally, I believe he is done at county level where you'll be facing Clifford, geaney, con, Kilkenny, Ryan o donoghue, Shane McGuigan etc weeks in week out

Been a magnificent servant but possibly best days behind him.

Yeah it's a different level when facing the likes of Clifford, Geaney, con, Kilkenny, odonoghue, mcguigan etc week in week out.

But you'll never guess who's the only defender ever thats marked all those forwards yet also captained his county to an all Ireland title, which is something none of those top forwards have ever done?

The idea of 20-30k streams is just laughable .

It sounds a lot but Tyrone would apparently sell at Least twice as many streams than tickets for a championship game, plus taking into account it's a final there would be many accross the island and those who emigrating to Australia/USA etc that would purchase it. If their estimating around 10k to attend the game I don't think 20-30k streams would be that far fetched.

Down and Fermanagh both had packages of £25 for all three finals (Fermanagh £40 for all games across junior, intermediate and senior). While in Tyrone, for finals alone we have had to pay £17, £18 and £19 totalling £54. Genuinely a disgrace, the county board should have a very hard look at themselves. Every individual involved in Tyrone Tv should hang their heads in shame.

Have people never heard of the term 'supply and demand'? Would a ticket to a Man Utd game would be the same price as a ticket to a Salford game?

Since 2000 only 2 counties have received less funding from the gaa than Tyrone despite the fact that Tyrone are not only among one of the counties with the highest number of members and players, but during that time won more all Ireland titles in total at minor, u20/21 and senior than any other county.  So Tyrone have had to rely on raising their own funding in order to build the facilities in Garvaghy and funding towards their successful youth development. With the large purchase of streams all over Ireland for their club championship, and with the disadvantage of little funding from the gaa, the club championship has give Tyrone an opportunity to raise funds. 

Surely If any other county were able to sell 10k tickets and 20-30k streams at £19 for their club final would they honestly prefer their county board to lower the price, so that it would save people a few quid even though their county would lose out on thousands?

If it was £16 people would yap.

If it was £13 people would yap.

If it was £10 people would yap about having to pay to watch an amateur sport where the players aren't paid.

You are 100% correct. It cost £50 for a ticket to watch Ireland vs Armenia were probably none of the profits went towards grassroots soccer yet so called gaa people lose the plot over having to pay a fraction of that to watch a high quality GAA game were all the profits literally go towards the sport.

In Tyrone we've seen the funding that's went towards the youth development squads and the facilities in garvaghey resulting with us winning 5 all Ireland titles in senior, u20 and minor in the last 4 years yet there's so called Tyrone fans on this forum going mad at having to pay a few extra pound going towards it.

I guarantee it's the same people who couldn't understand why they couldn't get a ticket when Tyrone were in the all Ireland final just because they wouldn't pay their club membership.

Personally think £19 is too much for a club final stream. If headquarters adopted the Tyrone business model then it would be €101 just to watch the All Ireland Final on your TV.

Hopefully Jarlath Burns can actually do something about this greed.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41717784.html

I personally think £5 for a pint of Guinness in the local is too much but for some reason it doesn't stop me from buying it. As expensive as £19 for the championship final is it also won't stop me from buying it. We all love to complain about prices but at least In this instance the money is going towards our county team rather than some man's pocket.

Down and Fermanagh both had packages of £25 for all three finals (Fermanagh £40 for all games across junior, intermediate and senior). While in Tyrone, for finals alone we have had to pay £17, £18 and £19 totalling £54. Genuinely a disgrace, the county board should have a very hard look at themselves. Every individual involved in Tyrone Tv should hang their heads in shame.

Have people never heard of the term 'supply and demand'? Would a ticket to a Man Utd game would be the same price as a ticket to a Salford game?

Since 2000 only 2 counties have received less funding from the gaa than Tyrone despite the fact that Tyrone are not only among one of the counties with the highest number of members and players, but during that time won more all Ireland titles in total at minor, u20/21 and senior than any other county.  So Tyrone have had to rely on raising their own funding in order to build the facilities in Garvaghy and funding towards their successful youth development. With the large purchase of streams all over Ireland for their club championship, and with the disadvantage of little funding from the gaa, the club championship has give Tyrone an opportunity to raise funds. 

Surely If any other county were able to sell 10k tickets and 20-30k streams at £19 for their club final would they honestly prefer their county board to lower the price, so that it would save people a few quid even though their county would lose out on thousands?

[Although that free out at the end seemed a very harsh call on Carmen.]

Mcelholm was very quiet tonight but with Lough still getting the win without him influencing the game only proves how strong this Loughmacrory team are. Trillick though on the other hand are a level above any team Lough have faced so far, and you'd feel Lough will need a big performance from mcelholm to have any chance of beating them.

I thought the ref had a decent game by letting a lot go which helped let the game flow, Although that free out at the end seemed a very harsh call on Carmen. Just before the free out a Carmen man had a clear shot for a point in the left hand side of the pitch (think it was Donaghy) but instead of having a shot he turned around and passed it back which seemed a bizarre decision at that stage of the game.

I think you are confusing harsh with a great spot and having the balls to call it out. It was a foul every day of the week.

That's fair enough if that was in fact the case, I can only go by how I seen it at the time. From my point of view it seemed like the lough man was holding onto Mcgarrity then Mcgarrity pulled him off, which is why it seemed harsh to let one foul go then blow for the other. I'd like to see the incident again though as I could very stand corrected.

Want to wish our neighbours Clogher the best of luck in their final tomorrow. rumour has it if Clogher win tomorrow he will transfer back to Clogher in a shock transfer to play intermediate football

People will be talking about kavanaghs transfer from clogher to augher for decades to come. A man who thinks he's too good to be playing junior football and needs to be playing at a higher level to get into the county team made the decision to move to a parish rival despite knowing the obvious uproar and abuse that would result in.

Without him clogher have won a league, have played many years in intermediate and now a possible championship. Augher with him went from promotion contenders at intermediate to now getting hammerings in division 3 football.

He seems a nice enough lad but he will never live that decision down for the rest of his life.

Mcelholm was very quiet tonight but with Lough still getting the win without him influencing the game only proves how strong this Loughmacrory team are. Trillick though on the other hand are a level above any team Lough have faced so far, and you'd feel Lough will need a big performance from mcelholm to have any chance of beating them.

I thought the ref had a decent game by letting a lot go which helped let the game flow, Although that free out at the end seemed a very harsh call on Carmen. Just before the free out a Carmen man had a clear shot for a point in the left hand side of the pitch (think it was Donaghy) but instead of having a shot he turned around and passed it back which seemed a bizarre decision at that stage of the game.

Predictions for the intermediate final. Definitely a hard one to call both teams are so evenly matched all over, can see extra time and an eglish win. Dungannon should be a great venue for it and atmosphere should be brilliant. Regards @mountfieldmunter stick to the football chat

Find it very difficult to look past Eglish, form all year says Clonoe. But having watched both teams throughout the championship and a couple of league fixtures of each I think Eglish's ability to play headsup football and actually kick the ball and still able to use runners etc. I think they will see off Clonoe by 4-5 pts.

Even when games look like they haven't been going Eglish's way there's no sense of panic as with the balls kicked in they only have to win it once or twice but Clonoes defenders will have to win it every-time to be on the right side of the result.

Eglish Remind me a lot of Derryloughans run last year I caught it late on. Just hope they'll show more in division 1 next year than the south tyrone club did...

Feel like it's hard for any team to have the drive to go on and do a double in such a competitive county in years gone by can think of Trillick in 23 and killdress junior in 21 have I missed any or who was the last at intermediate level ?

Galbally done it in 2019 at intermediate.

Here a stat for you Muckers

29 Clubs in Tyrone have won a championship since Carrickmore last one won:

Augher
Brackaville
Clonoe
Coalisland
Cookstown
Derrylaughan
Derrytresk
Dromore
Dungannon
Edendork
Errigal Ciaran
Eskra
Fintona
Galbally
Greencastle
Kildress
Kileeshil
Killyclogher
Killyman
Moortown
Moy
Newtownstewart
Omagh
Pomeroy
Rock
Stewartstown
Stewartstwon
Tattyreagh
Trillick

But alls not lost for the Semi as Loughmacrory haven't won one of any type of champo in 42 years.

Are lough not the youngest club in the county, fair play too them for coming so far in such a short space of time ?

Naomh Eoghan are the youngest club in the county I believe

Hardly... it's Newtownstewart with a few lads from disbanded Dregish on board.

Who on that naomh eoghan is actually from dregish, cant think of to many. Omagh have a decent few of the dregish boys with them

I'd be interested to hear who the few decent dregish men omagh have considering in my lifetime I can't think of dregish ever having a few decent men playing for their own club?