Tyrone 2020

If it does come to an end with Tyrone, I’d love to see him have another craic at an All Ireland Club with Errigal.

I’d say there’s unfinished business there.

He can write a few more character references for rapists to take up his time

Tyrone should probably have fried him after their first all Ireland. He disgraced them

Anyone could win All-Ireland’s with Dublin or Kerry.

Mickey won three with a county who had never won even one before. As many as John O’Mahony, Jimmy McGuinness and Joe Kernan combined.

All-Ireland’s at minor, u-21 and senior.

GOAT.

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He’s had them punching above their weight too for the last 5 years.

Them 3 men have 4 All-Irelands, Mickey has 3.

Exactly.

He dragged a bang average Tyrone side to an All-Ireland final a few years back, an achievement which was swept under the carpet.

They were far from bang average

He had a great way of mugging off Malachy O’Rourke and Monaghan in Croke Park.

Semi Finalists in 13, 15, 17, 19.
Quarter Finalists in 16. Beaten a point by Mayo.
Finalists in 18.

Phenomenal consistency.

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O’Mahony, McGuinness , Kernan = 4 ? Think O 'Mahony won 2 with Galway

I’m sure Mickey will put himself forward for nomination. Unless there’s a McGuinness or similar high profile candidate then it’s hard to see anyone beating him.

Tyrone have an €8m centre of excellence. They have underperformed under Harte for years. The fact he won’t go speaks volumes.

You are correct, I’d forgotten about the hammering they dished out to Meath that time.

ā€˜98 is the one that’ll never be forgotten.

Shur everyone bar Dublin are underperforming so.

after Meath hammered Kerry in the semi final!

2001, was it?

I’ve zero recollection of that final bar that it was a trouncing. Must google/YouTube it and refresh my memory.

In an era of the greatest team the game has ever seen that’s an incredibly consistent record.

Look at Arsenal post Wenger. The grass ain’t always greener on the other side.

Meath post Boylan
Galway post O’Mahony
Down post McGrath

Meath ole’d every pass for the final ten minutes against Kerry

Galway returned the favour a few weeks later. And some.

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There was only 2 points in it with about 20 minutes to go when Meath had Nigel Nestor sent off. Joyce had just started his scoring spree then and Galway won it handy. If you watch back the game, Nestor got his 2nd yellow for a head high tackle on Paul Clancy, but Clancy was up looking to take a quick free before the referee even could get his book out. When Nestor was shown a red card Clancy went over to commiserate with him. It was a very, very different time, I wonder what happened since to change all that…

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