Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[Goals_Will_Come]

The integrity of the Tyrone ACL is all gone. So many pre arranged results. Why are we delaying the leagues to start in May for games to be thrown in August?

Good point Jerome.

Leagues should start in April - club season already too condensed with double weekends - CCC talk about player welfare!!!
Teams benefitting from playing opposition with nothing to play for, this year in particular has been a bit of a joke. Usually, the teams who are either handing out points or are actively asking for favours end up in trouble a few years down the road and they run out of partners in this carry on.

C/ship Predictions:
Senior - Carrickmore
Inter - Cookstown
Junior - Stewartstown

Isn't it ridiculous that the minor season is still probably a month from finishing with teams out training from before xmas....the minor comps have been completely diminished in my view
Most minors in the lower grades are all playing senior football..what should be their primary focus has become their secondary..youth leagues are running longer than senior leagues are

Clubs caused the issue at Senior level by refusing to start the season without their U20s. By all accounts CCC are going to enforce an April start date next year either via a new ACL structure or else by including U20 as starred players in the current ACL format.

Management caused the issue at Minor level as they didn't want their players getting injured, so club season was put on hold until county was finished, got to All Ireland final, so after two month break club minor season resumed after July break and is running into September clashing with U16, reserve championship and Senior league and Championship.

Tyrone seems like a real messy league structure.

No point teams complaining that they have no county players then the throw the towel in in games at end of league.


Most leagues in each county have issues but Tyrone's seems like a total mess. 

Tyrone league is the best in Ireland as linked to championship with promotion and relegation and is very competitive. It is that competitive that clubs have now pushed it to later and later starts as they won't play without U20s. Clubs now paying that price as injuries pile up and are crying to county board about player welfare. Preliminary round draw in Ulster made the league an even tighter schedule. Reality is the league schedule this season has been their own fault.

[DouglasBridgeExile]

Interesting results tonight, aghaloo late run looks to have put killeeshil in bother again. Tough fixtures to come for them.

Kildress good win away to Clogher. Leaves Clogher still in the discussion however have aghyaram next and they look to have downed tools!

If Owen roes beat Naomh Eoghan next week then it could leave things interesting with the league title as Naomh Eoghan travel to kileeshil on the final day who will likely need a result for survival.

If my auntie had wheels she'd be a bike

[WT4E]

Congratulations to Naomh Eoghan the invincibles - Enjoy the celebrations!

Killeeshil Chairman putting up a tab for the whole weekend!

[Tyronesfabrizioromano]

Congratulations to Naomh Eoghan the invincibles - Enjoy the celebrations!

Killeeshil Chairman putting up a tab for the whole weekend!

Surely WT4E isn't congratulating Naomh Eoghan about their division 1 promotion considering the mouthful he was giving them a lock of weeks ago

[fistedscore]

A massive congratulations to Dregish tonight. Be some celebrations! Gortin to beat them by 3 first round.

Dungannon be sick tonight with 2 crucial points left behind them. Can't see them going down all the same, they will beat Moortown in the playoff.

What happened the mighty Carmen tonight?

Fintona start their march to Croke Park tomorrow. Can't imagine Urney being much bother. Will anyone be fit to put it up to the Pearses?

[tyroneStatto]

A massive congratulations to Dregish tonight. Be some celebrations! Gortin to beat them by 3 first round.

Dungannon be sick tonight with 2 crucial points left behind them. Can't see them going down all the same, they will beat Moortown in the playoff.

What happened the mighty Carmen tonight?

Fintona start their march to Croke Park tomorrow. Can't imagine Urney being much bother. Will anyone be fit to put it up to the Pearses?

Eskra would be a banana skin for them in 1st Round should they meet. Stewartstown possibly later on. Fintona's hardest games will be in Tyrone.

[Jimbop]

A massive congratulations to Dregish tonight. Be some celebrations! Gortin to beat them by 3 first round.

Dungannon be sick tonight with 2 crucial points left behind them. Can't see them going down all the same, they will beat Moortown in the playoff.

What happened the mighty Carmen tonight?

Fintona start their march to Croke Park tomorrow. Can't imagine Urney being much bother. Will anyone be fit to put it up to the Pearses?

Eskra would be a banana skin for them in 1st Round should they meet. Stewartstown possibly later on. Fintona's hardest games will be in Tyrone.

Of course, because typically the Tyrone representative goes on and wins Ulster and All Ireland.

Typical Tyrone arrogance there without looking at the actual facts.

The irony is that this is one of the weakest Tyrone junior championships in a long time. Fintona head and shoulders above the rest.

[MontyWM]

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[Easttyrone23]

Teams fielding weaker teams, agreeing on a draw or giving points has always been an issue towards the end of the league season especially involving those clubs that have nothing to play for so are focused on championship.

A possible solution to that could be waiting until the league is finished before making the championship draw and using league positions for a seeded draw. For example the top 8 teams in the league are in one pot and are drawn against a team in the other pot made up of the 8 bottom teams in the league.

That way it's still a fairly open draw but it will get rid of those dead rubber games for clubs who are safe from relegation and not challenging for the league title like we see currently.

[Easttyrone23]

Going into the final fixture of division 2 it's between aghaloo and kildress for automatic relegation and between drumquin, clogher, killeeshil, derrylaughan and rock for the remaining relegation playoff spot.

Aghaloo need to beat clogher and hope greencastle beat kildress to avoid automatic relegation.

Kildress will avoid automatic relegation if they get at least a point but will also avoid it if they lose to greencastle and aghaloo fail to beat clogher.

Both derrylaughlan and rock will secure safety with at least 1 point from their fixtures. Either killeeshil or clogher failing to win would also sure their safety.

Both Killeeshil and clogher will secure safety with a win although a rock win vs drumquin will secure their safety regardless.

Drumquin have to beat the rock to have a chance to avoid a relegation playoff. Although a win might not guarantee safety as if either killeeshil or clogher were to draw or derrylaughlan were to lose then it will be point difference that will decide the final relegation playoff spot. Although an 8+ point win for drumquin would make certain of their safety regardless of any of those scenarios as it would guarantee them to have a better points difference than the rock.

[sam03/05]

Removal of play offs has created a load of dead rubbers in Div 1 & 2
Has made League Football a joke
Teams nothing to play for for weeks

[ManFromMoygashel]

The league is exactly what we have made of it.
It's entry into the equivalent level of championship.
Winning the senior league carries no credibility and risks your team/ players for the subsequent championship ( which is what its all about)
Essentially this year given the league timetable, players could have started their competitive football in June, be finished with any "competitive" games in July and wait to play one game in September (for 50% of the teams anyway)
If league position facilitated a seeded championship draw that would be a reasonable incentive. But the only way to make the league better is to reward good league performance with championship advantage.
Same to a degree with intermediate and junior, your goal of winning the league is to get promoted and for a chance to play at a higher level. Promotion play offs kept teams in it to a degree and allowed for competitive football to the end of the season.
Teams that come up through promotion play off don't necessarily get relegated the year after.
What happens is a good/great intermediate team drops points or draws and therefore cant win the league because another good team goes unbeaten, intermediate is relatively competitive but more seasons than not its two teams who barely drop points but only one can win it, the play offs rewarded the overall good performance of the runner up with a chance at promotion ( outside of the championship) i think it should come back for that reason. Its just a structural
Nightmare with games being played in October/november in wind and rain... when not a ball kicked all spring.

[marty34]

Who's going to shout Stop?

[ClubScene13]

Going into the final fixture of division 2 it's between aghaloo and kildress for automatic relegation and between drumquin, clogher, killeeshil, derrylaughan and rock for the remaining relegation playoff spot.

Aghaloo need to beat clogher and hope greencastle beat kildress to avoid automatic relegation.

Kildress will avoid automatic relegation if they get at least a point but will also avoid it if they lose to greencastle and aghaloo fail to beat clogher.

Both derrylaughlan and rock will secure safety with at least 1 point from their fixtures. Either killeeshil or clogher failing to win would also sure their safety.

Both Killeeshil and clogher will secure safety with a win although a rock win vs drumquin will secure their safety regardless.

Drumquin have to beat the rock to have a chance to avoid a relegation playoff. Although a win might not guarantee safety as if either killeeshil or clogher were to draw or derrylaughlan were to lose then it will be point difference that will decide the final relegation playoff spot. Although an 8+ point win for drumquin would make certain of their safety regardless of any of those scenarios as it would guarantee them to have a better points difference than the rock.

Are you sure ET23? You might be right as I'm not sure myself - but I thought the 3 team tie went to like a mini league ie. who got the most points in the games between the tied teams that are involved

[Themanupnorth]

Anyone know any of the championship games be on the dodgey stick today?