Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[tyroneStatto]

Realistically Fintona at home should be able to beat a lower ranked team in the division even without 3 U-20's, if they were given such a fixture to start off with?

[square_ball]

Division 3 started last year and Cookstown and Glenelly had to play catch up with a few mid week fixtures thrown in. It has happened previously with Drumragh as well.

[Goals_Will_Come]

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

More than Cookstown affected in Intermediate. Beragh, Aghaloo, Kildress as well.
Junior only a matter of one team playing a few midweek games to catch up.

[HalfBack7]

this has to be the worst start to the league ever. I've never seen such a farce. Thank f**k I'm no longer playing football. To my knowledge we are the only county in Ireland who haven't started their adult leagues

Division 1 - No Start date confirmed. Reserves Started.
Division 2 - No start date confirmed. Reserves Started.
Division 3 - Email the other night, with a week and a half notice before start of league. Reserves Started.
All three division strung along for weeks not know what was happening.

Division 3A - Started 17th April, 3rd round tomorrow. Fixtures sent out on the Sunday/Monday for the Friday. No clear fixture list with dates for the year ahead communicated with clubs. Are they all just going to run week after week in the order they are listed, or is there a few double rounds going to be thrown in. Who knows. (Clubs will probably find out on a Sunday/Monday email that they have a double round that week).
Reserves - F**k knows what's happening there. Don't think the CCC even know. Rumour that only 5 or 6 clubs have entered reserve teams. CCC not to bothered, haven't even had the manners to communicate with clubs.

[W.A.G. Lover]

this has to be the worst start to the league ever. I've never seen such a farce. Thank f**k I'm no longer playing football. To my knowledge we are the only county in Ireland who haven't started their adult leagues

Division 1 - No Start date confirmed. Reserves Started.
Division 2 - No start date confirmed. Reserves Started.
Division 3 - Email the other night, with a week and a half notice before start of league. Reserves Started.
All three division strung along for weeks not know what was happening.

Division 3A - Started 17th April, 3rd round tomorrow. Fixtures sent out on the Sunday/Monday for the Friday. No clear fixture list with dates for the year ahead communicated with clubs. Are they all just going to run week after week in the order they are listed, or is there a few double rounds going to be thrown in. Who knows. (Clubs will probably find out on a Sunday/Monday email that they have a double round that week).
Reserves - F**k knows what's happening there. Don't think the CCC even know. Rumour that only 5 or 6 clubs have entered reserve teams. CCC not to bothered, haven't even had the manners to communicate with clubs.

I usually wouldn't defend the county board in these situations, but sometimes they need a break when the real fault is the clubs.
Weve clubs with senior inter-county players who will only agree to starred fixtures, but then disagree with an already agreed 2point/3 point starred fixture system.
The same clubs will then not agree to changing the league structures for more divisions, creating home/away games, thus more starred fixtures and allowing the league to commence earlier.
Clubs now dictating that leagues don't commence until u-20s are over, even though they are not senior inter-county which is what starred fixtures were created for.

I suggested last year changing the league structures, similar to ccc proposals.
Either return to the old 1A, 1B, 2 & 3 with approx. 11 starred/11 un-starred games & top 16 from previous season in senior champ, next 16 intermediate champ and the remainder in Junior Champ.
Or split into 1A & 1B (Senior Champ), 2A & 2B (Intermediate Champ), 3A & 3B (Junior Champ) with approx. 7 starred/7 un-starred fixtures for everyone.
Both proposals keep the integrity of linking league and championship whilst also giving teams home/away games and allowing the leagues to proceed without intercounty players (FYI id introduce u-20s into the starred fixtures with the changes).

Until the clubs can agree on a system whereby the leagues can commence without senior and u-20 inter-county players, we will continue in this mad cycle each year.

[Quarterbackk]

98% of the footballers in Tyrone are Club footballers. Think of the player that was defeated in the championship September 25 - - Or the lad that hasnt made a county team or college team - He hasnt played football for the best part of September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May. 8 Months of the year. And then everything is crammed into 4 Months - Overload fixtures, More Injuries. Clubs paying management teams for 4 months. Its a farce. 

The clubs need to take a stand - and hurt them when it counts - the club championship. The only time the county board bothers about clubs is when they can make a fortune of money from them to help sail the County football.

All this talk about Tyrone Championship being the best.  Bullshit.  Is it the best for developing players when they only get 1 game a year in championship. - No.  Its the best for generating cash and thats what clubs need to come together on.  Give them a proper set of fixtures - a start date - a Holiday period in July and not a rushed 4 month season.

Refuse to play in championship until its sorted - Then you affect the cash generating machine. 

[thewobbler]

98% of the footballers in Tyrone are Club footballers. Think of the player that was defeated in the championship September 25 - - Or the lad that hasnt made a county team or college team - He hasnt played football for the best part of September, October, November, December, January, February, March, April, May. 8 Months of the year. And then everything is crammed into 4 Months - Overload fixtures, More Injuries. Clubs paying management teams for 4 months. Its a farce. 

The clubs need to take a stand - and hurt them when it counts - the club championship. The only time the county board bothers about clubs is when they can make a fortune of money from them to help sail the County football.

All this talk about Tyrone Championship being the best.  Bullshit.  Is it the best for developing players when they only get 1 game a year in championship. - No.  Its the best for generating cash and thats what clubs need to come together on.  Give them a proper set of fixtures - a start date - a Holiday period in July and not a rushed 4 month season.

Refuse to play in championship until its sorted - Then you affect the cash generating machine. 

Lol.

The words of a man who doesn't understand how Gaelic Games administration works.

There is not a county board executive in Ireland who wants anything other than club leagues to be run off as efficiently as possible.

The problem here is the clubs and for want of a better description, their belief that when you divide 10 by 3, it's possible to create an even number if you keep going long enough.

This thread is quite funny to be fair.

[marty34]

Tyrone hurlers in Croke Park in a few weeks time. A strong NR campaign. Finish the group at home to rivals Armagh next week-end. Two teams on different trajectories this year. 

[Sean Og Patriots]

Tyrone club football really does suck.