Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[Themanupnorth]

I am near certain that the county board sent out an email couple weeks ago the the club leagues will be starting the 29th may at the latest

[ClubScene13]

I am near certain that the county board sent out an email couple weeks ago the the club leagues will be starting the 29th may at the latest

Probably would have been factoring in the All Ireland Under 20 final as being Wednesday 20th May as it was meant to be but with Tyrone v Kerry being opposite ends of the country it would be hard to make people travel to say Portlaoise on a Wednesday night. Then as a previous poster has said, Kerry seniors play Saturday 23rd and Tyrone seniors play Sunday 24th.

Perfect storm really, June is a complete disaster

[thebigfullforward]

Championship draw done. Be hard to call any of those games at this stage in the year

[2ndstringsub]

Championship draw done. Be hard to call any of those games at this stage in the year

Ill attempt the impossible here.

Division 1
Loughmacrory V Dungannon Loughmacrory beat Dungannon who I can see starting to falter in their d1 status
Coalisland V Clonoe This will be built up and will be a damp squib Draw with Clonoe winning replay
Killyclogher V Errigal Ciaran The Barista men will be lucky to be within 10 pts of Gods Sons Errigal Ciaran
Omagh V Moortown Moortown lucky to still be in the division easy victory for the City men
Trillick V Galbally Trillick will walk this
Edendork V Ardboe This has the makings of a great game but the tall cross men will be too green just yet Dorks to win
Eglish V Donaghmore Contentious one perhaps but I think Eglish walk this Donaghmore likely to be in freefall with Bradley at this stage i'm told.. with Logan unable to settle the ship
Carrickmore V Dromore Carrickmore will use this game to lay a marker down to the whole county but more importantly their neighbours the county champs.

Division 2
Aghyaran V Moy Moy win this as the Donegal side age and numbers not coming through
Cookstown V Drumquin Drumquin use underage success and a decent 2025 campaign to overcome the home of bleached blonde hair and white adidas preds
Greencastle V Beragh Beragh will win both the fight for the mountains above Carrickmore as well as the football game
Clogher V Pomeroy Probably the hardest to call in the division, Pomeroy edge it with a bit of experience and some of the counties oldest stars
Rock V Kildress Kildress to beat their neigbours convincingly
Gortin V Naomh Eoghan Gortin win this and Naomh Eoghan Get back to playing soccer for Ardstraw
Owen Roes V Aghaloo Aghaloo to win handy and as a result Owen Roes will be relegated
Kileeshil V Derrylaughan Derrylaughan will beat Kileeshil and they'll blame the lack of a bad smell on their poor performance

Division 3
Fintona V Urney Fintona win this and aim for a junior championship
Stewartstown V Strabane Stewartstown win this narrowly in a dull affair
Eskra V Augher Augher by a handful

Derrytresk V Killyman Derrytresk beat killyman with the remnants of a 2011 all ireland finalists panel...
Glenelly V Castlederg The Derg beat Glenelly in a swashbuckling affair
Brackaville V Tattyreagh The Tatts beat Brackaville
Clann Na Gael V Brocagh Clann Na Gael beat Brocagh at their leisure
Donaghmore III V Drumragh If Drumragh lose this they should fold
Errigal Ciaran III V Cookstown III Having learned nothing from last years fiasco Errigal "shits" as their affectionately known line out with a full forward line of P. Canavan D.Canavan R.Canavan (Errigal win)
Prelim Winner 2 Stewartstown V Omagh Stewartstown win comfortably in this
Prelim Winner 3 (Augher) V Prelim Winner 1 (Fintona) Fintona will beat Augher


Ill revisit at the time and either gloat or eat my comeuppance

[O’neill Army]

Championship draw done. Be hard to call any of those games at this stage in the year

Ill attempt the impossible here.

Division 1
Loughmacrory V Dungannon Loughmacrory beat Dungannon who I can see starting to falter in their d1 status
Coalisland V Clonoe This will be built up and will be a damp squib Draw with Clonoe winning replay
Killyclogher V Errigal Ciaran The Barista men will be lucky to be within 10 pts of Gods Sons Errigal Ciaran
Omagh V Moortown Moortown lucky to still be in the division easy victory for the City men
Trillick V Galbally Trillick will walk this
Edendork V Ardboe This has the makings of a great game but the tall cross men will be too green just yet Dorks to win
Eglish V Donaghmore Contentious one perhaps but I think Eglish walk this Donaghmore likely to be in freefall with Bradley at this stage i'm told.. with Logan unable to settle the ship
Carrickmore V Dromore Carrickmore will use this game to lay a marker down to the whole county but more importantly their neighbours the county champs.

Division 2
Aghyaran V Moy Moy win this as the Donegal side age and numbers not coming through
Cookstown V Drumquin Drumquin use underage success and a decent 2025 campaign to overcome the home of bleached blonde hair and white adidas preds
Greencastle V Beragh Beragh will win both the fight for the mountains above Carrickmore as well as the football game
Clogher V Pomeroy Probably the hardest to call in the division, Pomeroy edge it with a bit of experience and some of the counties oldest stars
Rock V Kildress Kildress to beat their neigbours convincingly
Gortin V Naomh Eoghan Gortin win this and Naomh Eoghan Get back to playing soccer for Ardstraw
Owen Roes V Aghaloo Aghaloo to win handy and as a result Owen Roes will be relegated
Kileeshil V Derrylaughan Derrylaughan will beat Kileeshil and they'll blame the lack of a bad smell on their poor performance

Division 3
Fintona V Urney Fintona win this and aim for a junior championship
Stewartstown V Strabane Stewartstown win this narrowly in a dull affair
Eskra V Augher Augher by a handful

Derrytresk V Killyman Derrytresk beat killyman with the remnants of a 2011 all ireland finalists panel...
Glenelly V Castlederg The Derg beat Glenelly in a swashbuckling affair
Brackaville V Tattyreagh The Tatts beat Brackaville
Clann Na Gael V Brocagh Clann Na Gael beat Brocagh at their leisure
Donaghmore III V Drumragh If Drumragh lose this they should fold
Errigal Ciaran III V Cookstown III Having learned nothing from last years fiasco Errigal "shits" as their affectionately known line out with a full forward line of P. Canavan D.Canavan R.Canavan (Errigal win)
Prelim Winner 2 Stewartstown V Omagh Stewartstown win comfortably in this
Prelim Winner 3 (Augher) V Prelim Winner 1 (Fintona) Fintona will beat Augher


Ill revisit at the time and either gloat or eat my comeuppance

I'm not sure what's worse, You predicting on championship games before a ball has even been kicked in the league or actually thinking Dungannons senior status is beginning to falter.

[bogball88]

I don't want to trivialise the situation but we are supposed to be working with a split season. I don't think we have collectively recalibrated since the split season has been introduced. We now have a split Calendar, county first, club second. Club teams should not be out in November/December/January. Our county underage teams are perennially good, so this should be expected and factored in

If leagues have to be restructured then so be it

That is just crazy talk Mr Smort, and you know it fine well. How else is Mr Mercenary expected to line his pockets throughout these months to pay off his mortgage, pay for the family holiday, put kids through Uni, buy new car?? Ohhh, won't somebody please think of the children!!

[square_ball]

I don't want to trivialise the situation but we are supposed to be working with a split season. I don't think we have collectively recalibrated since the split season has been introduced. We now have a split Calendar, county first, club second. Club teams should not be out in November/December/January. Our county underage teams are perennially good, so this should be expected and factored in

If leagues have to be restructured then so be it

Club managers know the leagues aren't starting until around the middle of May. To be out training now for 6 months is madness. They and the clubs need to tailor their approach.

The split season is more for club championship and U20s was never supposed to be a factor when this split season came in. In fact I would argue that in Tyrone the split season is meaningless as we just run things the way they always were. Tyrone is in the somewhat unique position in the country where league football means something and is very competitive. Therefore the 15 league games must be squeezed in before the club championship starts in September. As you say leagues may have to be restructured in order to keep everyone happy. I appreciate its not an easy fix and looking at our success at minor level, its a problem that's not going to go away over the next 5 years as the U20s should in theory be getting to the business end of the championship most years.

[In hiding]

Does everyone think that it is correct for Tyrone to hold back county minors and u20s from their clubs until the respective county sides are finished with their competitions.
Of course it's great to win Ulsters and All Irelands but how much does the average gaa member really care ?
How many supporters were in Breffni on Wednesday evening ?
I think we should try to win All Irelands without holding back players from playing with their clubs.
Surely club games can be organized to go ahead, and the U20s be all released to play league games with their clubs instead of having a training session with the u20 team. Even if that is only 1 game per fortnight.
I appreciate that we need to try to give teams the best possible chance to win, but for club football to be starting in June because of a competition that I believe, most people would go to a club game before a county U20 game is kinda mental.
I know the ship has sailed for 2026, but it is something that must be looked at going forward.

[square_ball]

I see Division 3 is getting going tonight. Fintona down for playing on Sunday as well. They've 3 in the u20 squad though 2 of them have never kicked a ball at senior level for them yet. They must have decided to just get on with it.

It does seem mad alright to be holding back hundreds of club players for the guts of 20 lads really.

[RedHand88]

Does everyone think that it is correct for Tyrone to hold back county minors and u20s from their clubs until the respective county sides are finished with their competitions.
Of course it's great to win Ulsters and All Irelands but how much does the average gaa member really care ?
How many supporters were in Breffni on Wednesday evening ?
I think we should try to win All Irelands without holding back players from playing with their clubs.
Surely club games can be organized to go ahead, and the U20s be all released to play league games with their clubs instead of having a training session with the u20 team. Even if that is only 1 game per fortnight.
I appreciate that we need to try to give teams the best possible chance to win, but for club football to be starting in June because of a competition that I believe, most people would go to a club game before a county U20 game is kinda mental.
I know the ship has sailed for 2026, but it is something that must be looked at going forward.

It's getting silly. No serious club football before June (potentially) is madness.
Tyrone will probably always have minors/U20/senior teams in the later stages of the championship and a better solution is needed.

[Jerome]

Does everyone think that it is correct for Tyrone to hold back county minors and u20s from their clubs until the respective county sides are finished with their competitions.
Of course it's great to win Ulsters and All Irelands but how much does the average gaa member really care ?
How many supporters were in Breffni on Wednesday evening ?
I think we should try to win All Irelands without holding back players from playing with their clubs.
Surely club games can be organized to go ahead, and the U20s be all released to play league games with their clubs instead of having a training session with the u20 team. Even if that is only 1 game per fortnight.
I appreciate that we need to try to give teams the best possible chance to win, but for club football to be starting in June because of a competition that I believe, most people would go to a club game before a county U20 game is kinda mental.
I know the ship has sailed for 2026, but it is something that must be looked at going forward.

It's getting silly. No serious club football before June (potentially) is madness.
Tyrone will probably always have minors/U20/senior teams in the later stages of the championship and a better solution is needed.

You'll find that the leagues only really matter for the first 8 games, after that teams have an eye on championship or calling in favours owed from years gone by. All really silly as you say. Leagues should start at the beginning of April regardless. If teams don't want to play without their players then DNF

[Goals_Will_Come]

There is probably a solution to be found by bringing back home and away fixtures in a 1A1B 2A2B structure and then doing 2 points for first fixture and 3 points for second fixture and including U20 players as part of the starred system.
But it is hard to be punishing clubs for producing good players who are making U20 panels.

[In hiding]

I am not saying that clubs play without their u20s.
I am saying that these players should be released back to their clubs once every fortnight to play a league game.
Surely the county u20s could accommodate that

[thewobbler]

There is probably a solution to be found by bringing back home and away fixtures in a 1A1B 2A2B structure and then doing 2 points for first fixture and 3 points for second fixture and including U20 players as part of the starred system.
But it is hard to be punishing clubs for producing good players who are making U20 panels.

Therein is the madness in GAA thinking.

When a player is good enough to play representative football, we don't wish him well, and don't say "enjoy the experience, see you when you come back". No, instead we do everything we can to ensure he doubles and triples his workload over the season.


It's clean cracking f**king insane.

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When same young lads bugger off to America for the summer, games go on without them.

Think about that .

[RedHand88]

I am not saying that clubs play without their u20s.
I am saying that these players should be released back to their clubs once every fortnight to play a league game.
Surely the county u20s could accommodate that

They probably wouldn't. Not saying it isn't a good idea because it is.