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My take for tomorrows Div.1 games:

Division 1
Eglish v Carrickmore - Carrrickmore by 5, The Eglish vengabus seems to have broke down
Moortown v Fianna - Moortown by 1, Just a game that has last minute winner written all over it, dogfight for 60 mins
Killyclogher v Dungannon - Killyclogher by 6, Killyclogher to put the recent form behind them against a Dungannon team in crisis
Clonoe v Loughmacrory - Draw, Mid table clash that will come down to a last minute 2 pointer from Lough to draw
Errigal v Dromore - Dromore by 7, A very poor Errigal team to lose to a very well drilled Dromore outfit
Ardboe v Edendork - Edendork by 4, Think Dazzler and Co. will be too much for the Rossa
Galbally v Trillick - Trillick by 2, Closer than whats on paper, Galballys a hard place to go to
Omagh v Donaghmore - Donaghmore by 5, Bye Bye St.Endas, on the flip side they get a few more exotic away days next year

If Ardboe can't beat Edendork tonight with half the Edendork team in Portugal at Conn's wedding they may lock the gates

I completely studded him. Gone to shite since

Worth noting Stuart Grehan fresh of a win at the East of Ireland won the Amateur Championship today at Hoylake. Guaranteed place at the Open, Masters and US Open. Pretty much assured himself of a Walker Cup place at Lahinch.

McIlroy had a strong front 9 here. Course playing much harder. Back in the mix up to T-3

Pretty sure the timing was picked to accommodate a triple header in Croke Park with the Tyrone hurlers in the Nickey Rackard final against New York at 1 and Kerry hurlers in the Christy Ring final at 3

Noah grimes, Conroy and Owens on the stand by list. Are they the best forwards outside the panel in tyrone?

Just wondering what people's thoughts are. Would suggest we are struggling with the fitness of our inside forwards.

No sign of donaghy or dailaigh jones who were on the last match squad

Aodhan Donaghy left the panel after the Armagh game so he isn't an option.

Ruairi Canavan has played 2 or 3 games this year and gone off with hamstring injuries in 2 of them? Darragh was always touch and go for today but the vibes havent been good for a while on him being back soon.

We're definitely in a transiition phase and there's not much experience on the bench, Burns and McDonnell aside.

I dare say if Conor O'Neill or Ruairi McCullagh were available they'd be in the 26. I'd expect them to be involved after the U20 final with potentially one or two others

The 15 on the field should be good enough to get the job done if they can get back to the intensity level of the second half of the Armagh game. If they play like they did in that first half or in the first half of the Cork game it's lights out. McGeary's return is a big boost in terms of that

Clubs were asked at meeting on Tuesday night. Cookstown and Fintona were the two clubs to raise concerns about playing on without U20s. CCC were to look at option of holding their games back

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.

Paul Dook has done an amazing job at underage level with the U20s and Minors before that. The one criticism that'll be thrown at him is that he's not managed a senior team, at either club or county level. I stand to be corrected on that but I think that's a fairly big question mark that he has against him. It's not one that cant be overcome but it's certainly not irrelevant

Young Colton showing up well on the big stage.

Monaghan kick outs are struggling to find their man. 

Colton and Quinn both of the Minor team from 2025 having a big say.

Monaghan when they were in control in the first 10 minutes looked comfortable. The first Tyrone goal changed the game

after winning the recent u20 all irelands we wanted Ruairi Canavan, Michael McGleenan, Michael Rafferty and Shea O'Hare to name a few starting for the seniors instantly. I dont think its as clear cut to say a brilliant u20 player at 19 or 20 years old is ready to start or even play for the senior team. It takes time. Even DC took a few years to get up to speed and show at that level. Our better players against Armagh - Conn & McKernan are both 28/29. They won the All Ireland when they were 23/24 so I do think it takes that 2-3 years of training, learning, and conditioning after u20. McElholm is absolutely unreal, unmarkable at u20 level last year, and even he is finding the going tough this year. But itll come

Would agree. The only reason I would think Oneill could get game time in wing positions as we are struggling there a bit at the moment

I don't necessarily agree. Physically O'Neill is more prepared that Ruairi, O'Hare or Rafferty where/ are. This is his third year at midfield for the U20s. He's the same age as Finnbarr Roarty who's established himself for Donegal. We aren't winning the All Ireland this year - we don't have much to lose.

He's played senior already earlier this year and looked more comfortable in the games he did get than most of the other young players thrown in. His performances for Queens in the Sigerson were exceptional. I'd have no hesitation in giving him an extended run.

I wouldn't say that for all the younger players but I think you can make exceptions

Anyone know anywhere near the international airport that would be showing the match? Is there a pub in Glenavy or somewhere?

Your best bet is Lilys in Glenavy or the Fiddlers in Crumlin. Will be on the iPlayer to so alternatively the app on yout phone should work...

For anyone interested created a wiki page for U-21 club championship which also includes the more recent U-19 and U-20 competitions. Only final venue not 100% sure of is the 2012 G2 Final. Teamtalk article morning of the final said it was going to be played in Edendork but archived results which can no longer be found said the Hurling pitch in Dungannon. Anyway a lot of history of those 50 odd years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrone_Under-21_Football_Championships

That 2012 G2 final was in Edendork. Week before Christmas

McKernan has been dropped this last couple of games against Offaly and Meath. Hopefully he starts but he's been out of favour.

The issues with Niall goes back before that. He was on a holiday earlier in the league. Arrived back the night before a game and started anyway despite missing training which I didn't go down well.

Poor kick outs against Kildare, Derry and Cavan led to goals and then he got caught out of position against Louth to be lobbed. Even going back to the Mayo game last year, it was his error before half time that handed Mayo a goal. In spite of his quality his form hasn't been good enough to have complaints about being dropped.

I've got my issues with the management but their handling of the goalkeeper position isn't one of those issues.

There are things happening at the moment that I don't think would be tolerated in any other county squad.

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Bit of collector's item that one. Is that an A grade/ seriously competed for competition?

That would be what was the old Brock Cup

Well given that the last person leading on the S&C was let go after last season it's clearly something that was identified as an issue and that needed improvement.

As I understand it Peter Hughes is meant to be relocating home to Ireland but he has a young family so that sort of travel isn't always the most straightforward. It'd certainly be better if he was on the ground.

That said I'm less worried about the S&C (while acknowledging it's an issue) and more worried about the strategy is in attack. We don't look particularly well coached - something Cahair O'Kane touched on in the Irish News today.

The other issue I'd have is accountability and what that looks like. Niall Morgan's not been close to his normal level so far. His kickouts have been critical to us conceding a goal in each game to date. There's no chance he'll be dropped - even after taking a holiday and only returning the night before a game. If I'm Oisin O'Kane or Jack Gibney I'd be asking serious questions.

Similarly there's a lack of disrespect to include Cathal Donaghy on the panel for the Louth game when it was known he'd left the panel the at the beginning of the week before the game. Sat a bit uneasy with me that