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Kerry were there for the taking this year and we couldn't do it. Blame the ref if you like.  We won 4 games all year. Two of them again Offaly & Cavan. Mayo missed a sitter to win the game v us in Omagh at the end of the game. If your best player wants to go to Australia for a month in the middle of the season and others go away on stag dos and holidays - then don't expect to be in a final. Time for change and a winning mentality.

Tyrone couldn't beat what proved to be a poor Kerry team who were not at their best this year.  Referee didn't help, but that's an excuse. We didn't have our best player available most of the year so there is an issue in that and being available when it matters most . Also we had nothing on our bench - despite all the underage success. If the current set up was replaced by likes of Tally and some good coaches we have potential. Mayo have shown that there is about 8 teams that can win it.

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Of them are better than what we had on the bench the other night

U20 Footballer of the year Shea O Hare for one
McShane
R Brennan
Donnelly from the u20s last year
Potter
2 Quinns in Dungannon
Noah Grimes
To start with

MOR inherited an All Ireland winning senior team and 3 u20 winning teams
Not bad

Who are the better players in the county? Dooher and Logan inherited a fully developed team, this is a completely different side in terms of age and experience.

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U20 Footballer of the year Shea O Hare for one
McShane
R Brennan
Donnelly from the u20s last year
Potter
2 Quinns in Dungannon
Noah Grimes
To start with

MOR inherited an All Ireland winning senior team and 3 u20 winning teams
Not bad

Who are the better players in the county? Dooher and Logan inherited a fully developed team, this is a completely different side in terms of age and experience.
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Still not seeing much difference from the Logan & Dooher era. Who actually managed to beat Kerry a few times in League & championship.  The team still can't win 3 games in a row - something we failed to do this year. I would question if the best players in the county are actually playing for us, there is a good number not, especially ones from successful u20 teams, seems to be no great development of this talent - with many not even in the squad . Same problems still remain. Kickout press especially , but also poor attacking play a feature for many years and very poor on long kickouts for a long time. We ran a Kerry team close but it was a team that played 3 weeks on the bounce and who looked fitter than us at end of game. We are Tyrone, we expect to be beating Kerry - which we do routinely at underage. So for me the jury is very much out on the current set up.

Won 5 games all season
Cavan Kildare and Offaly noone of which were very impressive
Roscommon & Mayo ( both lucky enough one point wins - Mayo for example should have had a goal in last minute but took a point). Then put it up to Kerry in a decent performance
But not seeing massive progress overall.

Kerry looked a fitter team even though they played 3 weeks in a row, our players were out on their feet with cramp etc.
Kickouts were really poor across the game.
Kerry there for the taking and still couldn't put them away.

Some of the comments about Paul are out of order and should be removed. 3 years the haters have had to wait as that's the last time the man lost a knockout game. This year he had a team that mostly played in the minor B competition(and lost) and managed to bring them to the final and win Ulster , beating a very fancied Donegal team and the minor AI champions Derry and runners up Armagh along the way. All this was done with probably his best players Concannon & McCullagh missing most of the season. They played brilliantly in the first 25 mins too, with some superb football, but ultimately lost the midfield battle and the loss of Colton was a big blow as well.

Surely Paul Devlin has to come in as manager at end of the year - a man with a proven track record of developing young talent. A man that wins big games.
Our senior management has won two big games in two years, Dublin (who are not the Dubs of old) and Donegal who had just won Ulster. They failed in every other big game and I see young talent such as O'Hare not even playing.  The man deserves the job.

Gael force wind due which will make it a lottery in itself

Tyrone will win by 5-7 points
Form is temporary - class is not
They have better footballers all over the pitch - that seems to have been forgotten in all the hullabellew of league games
Armagh won't be as quick to write them off again

Suppose they do have two All Ireland club titles - unlike most

Cookstown not be too worried
They are already promoted, a team with pile of boys playing minor and senior football all year, the likes of that young polish lad , prob be happy enough to get a break, lot of them playing schools football too, some in tyrone u20 squad. They would need a good bit of gym work done to compete in intermediate.

The cost of the games to watch on TyroneTv is a disgrace - some of them £16+ a game. Especially when you compare with prices are in other counties. They deserve to get cleaned out by dodgy box
If they would even offer something like a Tyrone Tv log in for £100 that covers all games. They would prob make more money in the long run, as people would probably subscribe then.

Clogher should win that easily - more experienced all round. Cookstown playing team of 17-18 year olds - don't think they too interested in promotion - see it as a year too early