Tyrone County Football and Hurling

[tyrone08]

Difficult one for tyrone. They have the potential to beat kerry however we have been very inconsistent over the past 4 years.

I have yet to see anything from orourke to suggest he has a tactic up his sleeve for this game.

Main concern is our slow build up and constantly hand passing around the 45. I would have said both armagh and donegal were better at this than us and look what's happened to them.

We need to start kicking passing and use the speed of darragh mcelhom if we are to win this.

[An Watcher]

Is it a valid option to try Conn on clifford from the start?  Obviously takes away from midfield or try teague on him.  This takes away from marking sean o'shea.

No ones expecting anything from tyrone but hoping we can try something different?

[square_ball]

Is it a valid option to try Conn on clifford from the start?  Obviously takes away from midfield or try teague on him.  This takes away from marking sean o'shea.

No ones expecting anything from tyrone but hoping we can try something different?

I think Conn on Clifford would be crazy. He ended up marking him at one stage last year when Hampsey had gone up the pitch and Clifford breezed past him like he wasn't there and knocked it over the bar. Teague will have to go on him and it'll be a case of damage limitation.

Kerry have been hyped up for the weekend like I have never seen before and its only Tuesday! Everything will have to go right for us on Saturday but you never know. I would be concerned that if we repeat periods of our wins v Roscommon and Mayo, Kerry will go to town on us.

[DaleCooper]

It will come down to how many of younger lads handle occasion. Cassidy looked excellent, Jordan was poor last day. McElholm was super last year but petered out in 2nd half.

Lets hope there are no howlers and they give it a good rattle.

It is our All Ireland final, no point pretending otherwise.

Not sure how much you can change at this stage, big McHugh maybe useful. Conn has to do his thing, more important out field

Kerry love the ball into square from 2.pt efforts, that tactic could work with big lads.

[God14]

Clifford really is damage limitation. We have no one suited to the role.

From what ive seen our best man to man marker this year has been Joey Clarke
Clifford would dominate Joey in the air. So thats too dangerous to leave him exposed

Seen enough of Clifford v Teague in Pomeroy one Sunday. Teague is better on the front foot, rather than defending 1v1

Id consider starting Aidan Clarke & giving him the job. Michael McKernan would also come under serious consideration. Likely two or three players will be given the onerous task at different stages of the 70 minutes

Caolan McColgan done really well on Clifford in the league final. Thats probably the type of player needed, and the style of performance you would want. Im not sure who is closest to that type of player within our squad.

[tiempo]

I'd try a smaller man on Clifford, if any of them had Ricey McMenamin traits that might do a reasonable job, a reasonable job being 0-7? Anything less should be considered outstanding

[square_ball]

I'd try a smaller man on Clifford, if any of them had Ricey McMenamin traits that might do a reasonable job, a reasonable job being 0-7? Anything less should be considered outstanding

Niall Devlin did OK on Kobe last week but then he also done fairly well on Paudie last year so he'll likely be needed for him.

McKernan not a bad shout.

Yeah under 7 points would be good going.

[tyrone08]

Key for me is making sure the ball goes dead when we are attacking. Any turn over or shot dropping short and 3 kicks later Kerry have it over the bar.

I would go with speed over strength when marking Clifford. Everyone trys to muscle him off the ball which won't work plus you will give him handy frees.

Speedy defender who attacks the ball rather than the man will start to frustrate Clifford if they can win a few early balls. Clifford is prone to rash challenges. When he tried to rile up his defender vital we don't react

[tiempo]

Will we see Hampsey back in a Tyrone shirt at all?

[Liberation]

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[reddgnhand]

It will come down to how many of younger lads handle occasion. Cassidy looked excellent, Jordan was poor last day. McElholm was super last year but petered out in 2nd half.

Lets hope there are no howlers and they give it a good rattle.

It is our All Ireland final, no point pretending otherwise.

Not sure how much you can change at this stage, big McHugh maybe useful. Conn has to do his thing, more important out field

Kerry love the ball into square from 2.pt efforts, that tactic could work with big lads.

McHugh will have to be considered. Kerry had 4 recognised midfielders against Armagh. They want to dominate kickouts but if Tyrone start with a half forward line with O'Donnell and Daly we won't compete and could get annihilated.

[DaleCooper]

Kerrys main weakness is Shane Ryan may not be playing full game? Maybe OShea and White too. They are a ridiculous team with serious physical power and reserves.


We will see what progress, if any, Tyrone have made.

[cjx]

I would actually play Morgan out field for a half and thus free Conn to ruffle more feathers.
Clfford has signature moves. Runs parallel to cross field lines 13 20m double loops out then in from corners and his strange stretch out leg shooting styles add (McGuigan had dummy solo) Clifford has extra tight bounce. I hope all 10 from half down have studied all the videos and run the computer games. O'Connor a narky tank get him on a run and tip him into a flag or post by 'accident'. Also cut the feed wing backs in particular carrying into zone. The 50m free space Kerry wing back got in the approach up their left in the build up to their goal in semi last must NOT be allowed under any circumstance and wing forwards must track Kerry carriers and be super fit and Seanie O'D would that job.
This is doable with belief and Ricey Gormley spirit (2points down 2008 and "now we have them".) They can be out psyched if we stay tall, loud and cool.

[square_ball]

Boys a boys. The sun must be getting to some lads heads.

[DaleCooper]

Its not 2008