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[Uncle Phil]

He has comments turned off.

DM him for a confidential chat.

[square_ball]

He has comments turned off.

DM him for a confidential chat.

I do like his new instagram page. Its blunt and to the point which makes a change from the majority of analysis. Some of it is stroking his own ego but that's probably just the way he is.

I wonder is there many current players or managers DMing him for a confidential chat. I wouldn't be surprised if there was plenty!

[skeog]

Ciaran Meenagh lucky that he only damaged his car recently when he fell asleep on way home.Not easy being a county manager.

[Mario]

Pure crap, a team playing with fear of Donegal, and that message had to have delivered by the manager in whatever what they communicated to the squad. No body taking anyone on except McGuckin, slow laborious play with no purpose. Higgins is a quality player. A coached team that took one of the best u20 forwards in Ulster out of game in any threatening way. Hopefully this is a wake up call about how not to play

Was at the game yesterday evening, the above were the comments I made on the Donegal game a few weeks ago. Make no mistake, this is the result of coaching. Literally no kicking of the ball when the space was available to kick it forward-however I could live with that if we had purpose in our attacking play, if we were structured & movement to create space to allow players to take the defender on, but no, we were so static. There simply was no evidence of coaching weaving movements that shift defenders that then allow for a space that then allows the forward to take his opposing player on. Gallaghers comments were crude, but unfortunately blunt in truth. Last years u20 team played exactly the same way.

The last 2 years u20s played like this and Tyrone went onto win AI's where I felt we had better players, coached to play in a way that stifled them.
It's frustrating when so many of us see the same thing but it's not being addressed.

On u20s progressing to senior - I think part of the reason this is now less likely is that there's too big a step in terms of physicality and intensity coming from u20, as opposed to u21. Strong u21 players were more likely to be equipped to step up, imo.

Disagree with this and we've seen it already with Donegal this year. They've regularly had 3 or 4 u20s playing on their senior team throughout the league without looking out of place, in fact they added to the team significantly and they won the league.

We had players do this too. McEvoy, Murray, Ethan Doherty all made big impacts for Derry while u20.

[Ryan O]

Anyone with a season ticket know how can buy standing tickets for game on Saturday through the redeeming portal, at the minute the only option is for the seating area?