Why do you never go to Tyrone games mate? How do you know so much about Tyrone if you never go see them?
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Serious business starts now mate.
Iāll be there next Sunday.
Were you down in Waterford and Leitrim?
13 different scorers for Tyrone today.
I tend to agree. I want Monaghan to win but itās hard to see past Tyrone by 5-7 points.
Tyrone have good squad depth. Thatās invaluable anyway, but even more so with the more demanding nature of the system this year.
Tyroneās campaign this year shows the fine margins of sport. They were seconds away from a humiliating exit against Meath, only for one of the great last gasp levelling points by Cathal McShane.
Harte probably would have been gone had McShane not kicked that point. He would have been ridiculed as a dinosaur left behind by the modern game. They scraped through and their campaign since has been a classic momentum-building one.
What has been particularly impressive about Tyrone in this championship is the way they refuse to beaten when you feel fate is against them. It genuinely felt like Tyrone were fighting some external force against Meath that fated them to be beaten, yet they didnāt fold. It felt like they were up against something similar today, and they grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and ground their opponents down into dust.
They have just the right amount of pig ignorance. Harteās public pronouncements about what happened against Dublin last year are one thing, and they were bizarre, but behind the scenes something else is going on, and Tyrone have learnt a lot. That free shot against Dublin was a great match for them to have.
If they reach a final against Dublin Iād give them a right chance.
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I think Harte has managed Lee Brennan superbly to be honest, heās taken an awful lot of pressure off his shoulders that some players arenāt ready to handle once they come out of minor. Tyrone have been crying out for a top class forward, Brennan still has it all to prove but heās being allowed prove it without the huge expectation surrounding him.
Croke Park is a big advantage for Tyrone, I think it suits the type of football we play. McNamee has really came back to form of late, felt he had another superb game today, he will pick up McManus and has generally done fairly well on him in the past.
It will be interesting to see who we decide to put of Karl OāConnell, Meyler perhaps if heās fit.
That was a fine match in 2005. Dublin v Kerry in 2013 and 2016 have since served up two classics which were of a higher quality.
The game is always moving on, though.
The best games of the next decade will almost certainly be of a higher absolute quality than the best games of this decade.
But that game was an era-defining game and it felt like it as it was happening.
Most people would be of the opinion that the current Tyrone team are not of the quality of the 2000s team, but they are playing football of a higher level.
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Yes I was in Waterford. I wasnāt in Leitrim because I was in Brazil.
Iād say a knockout game against Donegal away from home where you were losing at half time was fairly serious business.
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It was sold out, like Dublin was in Omaghā¦
Shame on you for missing the Leitrim game.
My team of the year to date:
- Beggan
- Ryan Wylie
- Johnny Cooper
- Eoghan Ban Gallagher
- Tiarnan McCann
- James McCarthy
- Karl OāConnell
- Colm Cavanagh
- Brian Fenton
- Ryan McAnespie
- Brian Howard
- Meyler
- Clifford
- Rock
- McManus
FOTY: Conor McManus
5 Monaghan
5 Dublin
3 Tyrone
1 Kerry
1 Donegal
Iād have Ryan McHugh ahead of Tiernan McCann.
Ciaran Kilkenny is not pretty to watch but he has be in there too.
Damien Comer still has a good shout of getting one but individually, few Galway players have stood out. Tom Flynn has a good chance of getting one at midfield.
McManus is a shoo-in for FOTY at the moment alright and if he has a good semi-final itās hard to see anybody taking it off him, even if Monaghan lose.
Ciaran Kilkenny was well subdued against Dublin and Donegal.
McHugh was man marked out if it against Dublin and Meyler really got on top of him in the end today.
Comer has gone off the boil completely.
McCann was very good against Dublin the last day and crucial in the fight back today.
Shane Walsh way ahead of Myler.
Rest is pretty dead on
Walsh blows hot and cold. Meyler gets through an absolute dog of work, heās the new Brian Dooher.
Is that why harte changed the dimensions of Omagh?
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Not for a long time.
Walsh is clutch. For now there is not much comparison.
Thatās not to slight Myler who is as you say hugely effective. But not team of the year standard.
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I donāt know, heās a talented player but yesterday was an example of the type of ineffective peformances that he delivers, he was subdued against Kildare as well. For the most part heās had a great Championship but heās gone a bit off the boil.
It really depends on the big games, for instance Sludden was easily Tyroneās best player before the last two matches but heās had fairly quiet outings. Meyler for me is vital to Tyrone.
CK has been very average this year
Ah ya, critical I would say. But still not team of the year.
Cork would never have won in 10 without Kavanagh or pierce O Neill. Yet neither were superstars.
He is a very good footballer though
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