didnât see it. Did he draw the boot?
I think youâre deluded about the level Tyrone are at.
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Tyrone are a level above Monaghan.
Mickey Harte on Con OâCallaghanâs goal:
âPeople think you make excuses but it is those little things that happen in a game that donât seem particularly significant. But they are huge. It wasnât even the goal itself. It was the lead up to the goal: this is a run-of-the-mill play in a game of football. People are going forward. They [Tyrone] are on the front foot. They make a little handling error and are turned over. And often a team will pay to some extent. But sometimes, you pay a high price. And we paid a high price that day. If you look at it â and this is not to make excuses but if you look at it youâll see â the referee got a little bit in the way.
âNiall Sludden passes to Paudie Hampsey and the referee is kind of in his peripheral vision as he runs and Paudie just didnât handle it perfectly. CiarĂĄn Kilkenny comes in and challenges for it. The ball breaks perfectly for Dublin rather than us. Into the hands of Philly McMahon who kicks it to the man [Con OâCallaghan] who is supposed to be marking Paudie Hampsey. Because he is number 11.
âAnd if the number six goes forward and the 11 watches him go, well, I donât think thatâs good practice. So he should have been after Hampsey! Now, he gets the ball 45 metres out. We arenât totally blame-free here because our philosophy is that if the centre-half goes, somebody should take his place. Nobody did. We didnât observe our own rule.
âBut his [OâCallaghan] not following Hampsey left him in this place where he was free. After that, you have to give him full credit for his ability and his ambition to go for goal. He didnât really have any business to go for a goal. A young fella like him just into the team⌠I know he is a quality player and all the rest. He could have been happy to take a nice point but he decided to go for the jugular. Obviously he would believe in his own ability to go past a static defender. But then he went on and said: âI am going to bury this.â So Iâd have to give him full credit for that.
âNow, he got it in a way I wouldnât like â by not being an honest broker and going after the man he should have done! Thatâs neither here nor there. But that changed the entire tenor of that game. We felt we could contain them for 45 minutes. The goal cut a hole in the team â not just on the scoreboard but psychologically. Conceding a goal like that was not something we did very often â particularly so early in the game and through the heart of our defence.â
He takes a sip of coffee and thinks about those few seconds. Kenny Rogers is singing about love gone awry in the background. The new football season is just days away.
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Spoke to an insider about DC yesterday and his reasons for leaving for now. Linked to recent troubles off the pitch that have been reported on.
You are fucking stupid
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Iâm correct.
It might just depend on the situation, or maybe as the year goes on weâll discover it doesnât even depend on the situation.
Youâll appreciate though that it comes across as arrogant - Monaghan beat Tyrone in the league, finished above Tyrone in the league, took slightly less of a whooping of Dublin last year and now beat them in the Championship in Tyrone (should have been by 5 points). Youâre saying âa level aboveâ.
Tyrone have made progress from last year though. The interplay in the Tyrone forward lines was good, especially when they worked it into the corners and always seemed to have an overlap.
Theyâll find it very hard to win tight physical matches without S Cavanagh,
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fucking hell, thats mad stuff. Doesnt appreciate O Callaghans goal because O Callaghan didnt follow his man up the field. That is utterly naive stuff from Harte. Dublin are confident enough in their defence that they can leave opposing defenders go up the field, knowing they have cover and that if a break happens, they have very quick outlets to a free man. you cant rely on the opponents forward players to follow your defenders as a tactic of your team.
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I have said this for years. Harte should have left 4 years ago to allow young lads and Cavanagh et al get a good mix together.
He is publicly saying it now but I know Cavanagh has been frustrated for years with the approach.
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It would be very funny if Cavanagh was eyeing up the Tyrone job and publicly attacking Harte. Heâd never be thinking of that would he?
AS oft mentioned, but he has an Arsene Wenger type set up now, had great success but is too self absorbed to see the bigger picture.
But I never thought for a second that he wouldnt acknowledge how other teams play. In that piece there, he seems to think that Dublin will only play tactics as Mickey Harte thinks they should play.
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But Monaghan have never been beyond an AI QF in the modern era. They have consistently falling short so I actually think arrogance would lie with the likes of yourself in this instance.
The naivety is unreal. The stuff about the 11 having to match up with the 6 is dinasaur thinking.
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Just watched the highlights, did Drew get as much of a roastinâ as it looked?
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Revised Rankings - 21 May 2018
- Dublin
- Kerry
- Galway
- Mayo
- Monaghan
- Roscommon
- Donegal
- Tyrone
- Clare
- Tipperary
- Kildare
- Cork
- Fermanagh
- Meath
- Cavan
- Down
- Laois
- Carlow
- Armagh
- Longford
- Westmeath
- Sligo
- Derry
- Antrim
- Leitrim
- Wicklow
- Louth
- Wexford
- Offaly
- Limerick
- Waterford
The space the Monaghan backs gave the Tyrone forwards for the first 15-20 mins was criminal but then the Monaghan backs gradually got on top. Drew turned into a leader as it progressed. Ryan Wylie was probably our best back.
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I look forward to the Donât Foul analysis. Very interested in seeing the kickout stats and the shot conversion statistics. From a Tyrone point of view, there were not many easy scores coughed up at all. Monaghan were just ruthless in converting difficult scores on the day.
Iâd say it was more a factor of Monaghan getting on top in the middle of the pitch and starving the supply to the Tyrone forward line.
So Monaghan were more skillful