Tyrone County Football and Hurling

[cjx]

Some absolute clowns on this page.
The hypocrisy around Malachy O'Rourke is embarrassing. You built him up when it suited you, pushed for him to take over, and now you're acting like he's the problem. It just shows that some people will never be happy unless they've something to complain about. Real supporters back their team and management through it all  they don't jump ship the second things get tough. All this talk says more about the people saying it than it ever will about him or the squad. Tyrone have the players, the mindset, and now the management to compete at the highest level. Malachy O'Rourke has proven he knows how to build serious teams, and that doesn't change overnight just because of a few results. There's a process to this, and if people show a bit of patience, they'll see a team that's growing stronger, more organised, and more dangerous. The Sam Maguire Cup is the goal, and there's no doubt they're building towards it the right way.

Malachy take the night off would you. Tyrone bang in the middle of division 2, multiple players taking holidays during the season, players stepping away, conceding goals every game, far worse off than this time last year.

Where do you see a team "more organised" when we allowed meath to kick two pointers at will.

Bad tactics (unsuited to available players) bad strength and conditioning, needed for new rules ( partly due to youth but bad resources man in NZ etc.) Bad coaching (Porter et al not up to it?)bad selection ( positional and Jordan,McKiernan)

[TyroneTam]

It's impossible to argue against facts, this time last year we were

- incredibly unlucky to get relegated on the largest points total in div 1 history
- had Armagh on the ropes until we threw it away in last minute
- beat the all Ireland finalists in their own back yard
- beat Dublin in the AI QF

This year we are:

- genuinely on the brink of not even being in the all Ireland series.
- Only beat the two teams who are likely to be relegated to Div 3
- appear to have a very unhappy camp

I'm definitely not saying this in a 'get MOR out' way but the trend is incredibly worrying. We look to have no shape, I can't see any discernable game plan, we're giving away horrendous goals, not defending obvious threats (e.g. Meath no12 having the time of his life kicking 2 pointers for the craic) and I could go on.

I'll absolutely be in the athletic grounds convincing myself we've a chance, however, setting aside the emotional brain my logical thoughts are all doom and gloom.

[NotedObserver]

What team plays at weekend?

Okane

Niall Devlin
Peter Teague
Cormac Quinn

Mckernan
Joey Clarke
Cullen

Conn
Kennedy

Mcgeary
Cassidy
Jordan

D Canavan
M Donnelly
Mcelholm

Daly, Seanie O'Donnell, Rafferty and Aidan Clarke out