Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[Boghopper]

Video doing the rounds of u16 league game today, not good viewing for either club. Disgrace if ccc don't take action the clubs should. Pantomime

What videos?

Gortin v Urney, an all out free for all by the looks of things. Adults panned out on the ground and what can only be described as 2 middle aged men partaking in WWE style combat. To make it worse one of them is wearing a high vis jacket that you'd see on the M1 surfacing. 🫣

Bad all round. Game played on a training pitch with no fence. Our neighbours let themselves down now, urney winning the game well Gortin manager started the whole thing I hear. Young lad from urney only 16 or 17 hit by Gortin coach, i think most parents would be on the pitch if the cub was hit by an adult

As it was an under 16 game you'd presume he was no more than 16...
I've seen some of the videos and they're very poor, for both clubs, the story I heard, from an Urney man, was that it started when a Gortin player, not manager, hit an Urney player, I believe it was a kick on the ground he said, but regardless, there is no justification for the shambles that followed, forget about the training ground and no fence excuses, the videos that are circulating would make you think a fence wouldn't have stopped this.

It started when an Urney lad and Gortin lad were throwing punches and both ended up on the ground. A second Gortin lad drew his boot off the Urney lad on the ground. A bit of pushing and shoving that was being settled by ref and linesman.

Unfortunately a group of Urney lads, including adults, who had been sitting in the second dug out on the far side ran across and starting battering all round them. One Gortin player in particular looked to get a serious facial injury. At that point it became a complete free for all with neither club covering themselves in glory.

The choice of the venue definitely contributed to what happened. The group who caused it to blow up wouldn't have been inside the wire at a normal pitch.

It's madness that the CB allowed a final to be played in a venue where spectators were inside the pitch. No club can moralise and say if that was us we would to a man have self control if an incident occurred on the pitch. I'm sure no one from either club went to the match with the intention to get into a scrap. I haven't seen any now saw the inevitable video on WhatsApp if Strabane's main pitch wasn't available then the game should have been played elsewhere. People who are typically sensible in real life become different people at football matches.

[Grace Murphy]

If Gortin are being beaten in division 4 finals should they not amalgamate with someone!

[RouskyRanger]

If Gortin are being beaten in division 4 finals should they not amalgamate with someone!

Sure they pulled their amalgamation and got rid of half the committee just to amalgamate again.. as for the individual up the the board blaming urney I have heard what happened from a neutral who was at the game and he claims that the Gortin coaches should never be allowed to coach underage football again.

[Gaagobshite]

If Gortin are being beaten in division 4 finals should they not amalgamate with someone!

Sure they pulled their amalgamation and got rid of half the committee just to amalgamate again.. as for the individual up the the board blaming urney I have heard what happened from a neutral who was at the game and he claims that the Gortin coaches should never be allowed to coach underage football again.

I notice quite a few of their "reformed" committee involved in the wwe videos today, no wonder alot of good Gortin people opted out of the committee if that's the people they had to deal with.

[marty34]

The key question for me why, in Tyrone, are these leagues finals played after the championship?

In my opinion, your season should finish when you get knocked out of championship.

Not an excuse for this brawl but game shouldn't have been played in early November. Just asking for trouble.

[Boghopper]

If Urney were winning the game well and the game was nearly over it seems odd they would want to start a free for all. Teamtalkmag reported the half time score as Urney 5-5 Gortin no score. I think if you are that side of a scoreline you've to just accept your second best. Gortin won the grade 4 Championship and got to the league final one piece of silverware and runners up in the league is not bad at any level. Disappointing that the game couldn't have finished and that Urney have been denied an underage title.

[PastThePost]

If Urney were winning the game well and the game was nearly over it seems odd they would want to start a free for all. Teamtalkmag reported the half time score as Urney 5-5 Gortin no score. I think if you are that side of a scoreline you've to just accept your second best. Gortin won the grade 4 Championship and got to the league final one piece of silverware and runners up in the league is not bad at any level. Disappointing that the game couldn't have finished and that Urney have been denied an underage title.

Unfortunately it's not as simple as that, if there are spectators on the pitch fighting, then the ref has no other option but to abandon the game regardless of the time played...
It doesn't seem to be in the thoughts of those adults involved in the fighting, that their actions will result in the game being abandoned, from either club. Everybody can argue about what sparked the row, but nobody can deny the choices made by adults afterwards were extremely poor.

[Aaron Boone]

Is there a club on the Donegal side of the border that these Urney ones could transfer to?

[Boghopper]

Is there a club on the Donegal side of the border that these Urney ones could transfer to?

Why would Urney youth want to do that?

[Boghopper]

If Urney were winning the game well and the game was nearly over it seems odd they would want to start a free for all. Teamtalkmag reported the half time score as Urney 5-5 Gortin no score. I think if you are that side of a scoreline you've to just accept your second best. Gortin won the grade 4 Championship and got to the league final one piece of silverware and runners up in the league is not bad at any level. Disappointing that the game couldn't have finished and that Urney have been denied an underage title.

Unfortunately it's not as simple as that, if there are spectators on the pitch fighting, then the ref has no other option but to abandon the game regardless of the time played...
It doesn't seem to be in the thoughts of those adults involved in the fighting, that their actions will result in the game being abandoned, from either club. Everybody can argue about what sparked the row, but nobody can deny the choices made by adults afterwards were extremely poor.

Agreed a handful of adults have ruined the final for the young men taking part. I wasn't saying the referee shouldn't have abandoned the game I just don't understand the behaviour of the handful of lunatics one man looked like a bull let of the pen at the mart.

[LoughShore Beast]

Would there be any chance of the club u20 or u21 competition coming back into play after Christmas .I feel like it would be a good way to get younger lads on senior teams abit of football. Its been 2-3 years since it has played last i feel like it would be good to have it back.   

[Grace Murphy]

Saw the video.

Hi viz senior and hi viz junior the big story here. What club were they from. Felt sorry for hi viz junior very upset that hi viz senior got attacked. You would wonder why adults would behave like that in front of kids as young as that.

Although the county board must take on responsibility as the match was played at an intended venue.

I see gortin Facebook have concluded there u16 season.... Nothing to aeee here mucker move on. 🤣

[PastThePost]

Apparently police involved with claims of assault on an adult man and a child from Gortin, not a good day for the GAA, I'm told that Urney have recently launched a fundraising ticket sale, this is not the kind of publicity they would want.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

On Belfast Live yes police involved

[paddyjohn]

Suspend them both for a year or 2. Close the grounds.