A novel pairing for sure and admittedly I'm not an astute follower of the Limerick football scene but I would expect the red hands to win this one. Tyrone by 6

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 24/06/2015 16:14:40    1742197

Undoubtedly Tyrone are favourites for this one by at least 6/8 points.They will still have a big say in the winning of this championship.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 24/06/2015 16:27:03    1742205

Well Tyrone should win this by 10. Gaelic football is a long way behind rugby, hurling and soccer in the Treaty county. But they ll hit hard and have a few good players

BanTarleton (Clare) - Posts: 181 - 24/06/2015 16:29:52    1742207

A novel pairing alright. Both sides have never met in the championship. Limerick are making great strides under John Brudair and should have beaten Clare but this will be a easy 10 point + win for Tyrone.

PortInFaithful (Offaly) - Posts: 472 - 24/06/2015 16:33:16    1742211

Which players left the Tyrone squad?

PortInFaithful (Offaly) - Posts: 472 - 24/06/2015 16:35:55    1742213

link

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 24/06/2015 16:38:08    1742218

That doesn't say anything about who left. I think the only player to leave this time was ryan mc kenna. there was word Mc Namee was gonna but looks like hes in it for the summer. Very positive for tyrone as he would have been a massive loss.

Only others I can think of would have been a number of under 21 player who harte may have asked to join have gone to the states including frank burns an dthe under 21 captain mc geary.

Can't think of anyone else. Wa looking forward to seeing Myler in action though, shame but he has seen a lot of football last year, rest will do him good

redhanddefender (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 24/06/2015 17:00:16    1742230

Would love to see Lee Brennan getting a run out, seen him a good bit for St Micks and i heard he shot the lights out for Trillick in the Chamnpionship a couple of weeks back. Very promising young player.

So_it_is (Fermanagh) - Posts: 40 - 24/06/2015 17:12:35    1742236

I heard our Kerry junior team took on the limerick seniors in a challenge game last week and the Kerry juniors won by 3 points and the Kerry juniors were missing a few players due to injury.
I would love limerick to win this but I'd say its a bridge too far this year unfortunately.

KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 24/06/2015 17:36:44    1742249

I would like to see lee start to although very young maybe he could make the other pretenders buck up their act. He was very good in championship but it was against poor enough opposition. Hope mickey starts him but I would imagine we will see him at some point, has pace to burn!

redhanddefender (Tyrone) - Posts: 913 - 24/06/2015 17:43:01    1742252

The Limerick team of 2004 - 2010 might have put it up to Tyrone, but the current one is a good bit below that level unfortunately.

Football is only the 3rd/4th most popular sport in the county to begin with and it is hard to be competitive when hurling takes precedence and dual players aren't allowed anymore. Dual minors are not allowed to play for Limerick so many 16 & 17 year olds have to decide between football or hurling for their county team and they can't be blamed for choosing hurling as chances are they will have more success.

They are then lost to Limerick football forever though and with the pool of players being small enough to begin with, it will be very difficult for Limerick to get back to mid 2000 level, when they had 5/6 dual players.

Tyrone will win this, unless they take Limerick for granted, but I don't think Mickey Harte will allow that to happen.

county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1102 - 24/06/2015 20:33:14    1742297

Tyrone in a canter.

seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2151 - 24/06/2015 20:39:07    1742300

Tyrone at home, injury free, plenty of time to prepare - I'm aware that this will sound disrespectful to Limerick, but Tyrone should be winning this by 12+ if we have any hope of a run this summer.

Thomas Clarke (Tyrone) - Posts: 1002 - 25/06/2015 09:32:52    1742361

Tyrone by 10 at least

ShortGrass_1 (Kildare) - Posts: 223 - 25/06/2015 12:14:17    1742484

The Limerick team is quite inexperienced at the moment, and it will be a few more years before we can hope for the competitiveness of the 2003 to 2010 era. Having to travel to Omagh, and to play at 4pm on a Sunday evening, is an added disadvantage, as only the small diehard core of limerick football supporters will be tempted to travel. A home game in Newcastlewest, for example, might have stirred the interest of the general GAA public. Maybe there's an argument to be made for giving lower-ranked teams home advantage in the early rounds of the qualifiers?

football first (None) - Posts: 1259 - 25/06/2015 12:41:52    1742506

Hopefully the bookies have got it right with the 10 point spread on the handicap. Tyrone do need to make a statement as the backdoor looks a tough one to crack this year.

Byanthon (Tyrone) - Posts: 1780 - 25/06/2015 13:12:52    1742531

Probably the worst part of the qualifier series these early rounds to be honest...Shouldn't really be playing each other but here you are, neither team likely to learn anything from this game that will stand to them next year.

GetOverTheBar (Tyrone) - Posts: 1388 - 25/06/2015 14:10:14    1742568

Well, we won, not a lot more to be taken from that performance unless they were a bit rusty from the gap since they played Donegal in what seems a lifetime ago. Hoping for a decent draw tomorrow otherwise we'll be joining our illustrious cousins from Down on the sidelines.

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 28/06/2015 19:48:13    1744068

Look disappointed with the result even though i didnt think we would pull it off, however massive congrats to the huge limerick following that travelled up, must of been 300/400 or us there today for that long trip. Tyrone while sluggish will use the qualifers tot weak their team and get things together with the lieks o mark bradley coming on

Caseys89 (Limerick) - Posts: 80 - 28/06/2015 21:56:33    1744213

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1744213 Look disappointed with the result even though i didnt think we would pull it off, however massive congrats to the huge limerick following that travelled up, must of been 300/400 or us there today for that long trip. Tyrone while sluggish will use the qualifers tot weak their team and get things together with the lieks o mark bradley coming on
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That's a great support to take all the way to Omagh for a Sunday afternoon and well done for putting it up to Tyrone.

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 29/06/2015 08:10:25    1744225