"Mattie knows all about Tyrone football"

November 12, 2015

Eoin Gormley and Niall Kelly of Trillick celebrate.
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Trillick's Niall Gormley expects Scotstown manager Mattie McGleenan to have his homework done on the Tyrone champions ahead of Sunday's Ulster club SFC semi-final.

"Mattie knows all about Tyrone football. I have played against him a couple of times, and he managed school teams against me. He'll be chatting to a lot of people and getting as much information he can about us. He'll leave no stone unturned," Gormley said of the former Red Hand attacker in the Tyrone Constitution.

Gormley contends that Scotstown will be a lot more familiar with Trillick than their quarter-final opponents Naomh Conaill were.

"Teams don't really know about us, and we don't know much about them either, apart from the odd video that we can get hold of," continued the long-serving attacker, who posted 1-2 against the Donegal champions.

"But Scotstown will be a different story, because we have played them in a couple of challenge matches over the last couple of years. We would know a wee bit more about them than we did about Glenties. Maybe we have maybe lost a wee bit of the surprise factor, for they will know about us.

"Mattie (Donnelly) and Kieran Hughes are good friends, and they have obviously been chatting about who's going well and who's not going well."


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