If I was a Meath I'd love to take over that team massive potential there. Meath are coming I heard they were robbed by a terrible peno call

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 11/07/2015 19:18:51    1751525

. Very strange for Tyrone to leave Mc Shane, Mc Curry, and Mc Cann on the bench.

Don't agree with that. McShane's probably not a starter just yet, he struggled against Donegal. Bradley deserved a chance ahead of McCurry as well. McCann had probably his best game for Tyrone when he came on as a sub so that worked out.

MichaelO (Tyrone) - Posts: 820 - 11/07/2015 19:19:22    1751526

Hard luck to Meath, this was every bit the tough, attritional battle we all expected it to be. For Meath its now back to the drawing board and a bit of soul searching to be done, its evident that there's more than enough talent in that team to be at least putting it up the Dubs. For Tyrone, that win poses more questions than it answers in fairness, we really need to decide where we are going as a footballing county because any more team displays like the one we saw today will surely end in disaster. In some ways defeat today may have been preferable in the overall scheme of things.

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 11/07/2015 19:31:06    1751532

MichaelO not saying to replace Bradley with Mc Curry. Play both, perhaps Bradley at CHF. Mc Shane was played out of position against Donegal. To me he should be midfield or full forward.

tyroneed (Tyrone) - Posts: 753 - 11/07/2015 19:39:32    1751537

Well done to Tyrone, I was at the other end so I couldn't see the penalty incident at all but either way that's no excuse, Tyrone mopped up around the middle after HT and got enough possession to deserve the win, so well done and all the best.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 11/07/2015 19:54:58    1751543

Not surprised at McCurrys omission... he is a bit timid.

BIG SACKS (Tyrone) - Posts: 1681 - 11/07/2015 20:38:07    1751562

Royaldunne who's this man from athboy you speak of ?

And brend , yes we have the talent to put it up to the dubs but the reality is this meath team at its best will still lose and probably by a margin.

Very discouraging for the players to motivate when they know they've no chance. Pity meath are not in ulster or connaught. At least then we'd have at least a glimmer of hope .

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 11/07/2015 21:21:19    1751585

McCurry was dropped wtf? He's class love watching him play, if Tyrone have 6 better forwards than him then Sam is there's for the taking.

clondalkindub (Dublin) - Posts: 9926 - 11/07/2015 21:27:33    1751598

Number 17 Mark Bradley had a fairly good game today I thought, Tyrone wont be going far this year though

PoppinPoints (Meath) - Posts: 225 - 11/07/2015 21:33:03    1751606

Congrats Tyrone, hard luck Meath by all accounts you could have won it not many teams can come away from Omagh and say that. Meath have potential to compete at the top level. Today was the first day Meath addressed the plague that is defensive football with a strategy that gave them a chance of winning against it.
They will have learned a lot from the experience, both players and management and it will hold them in good stead for the league with Cavan, Derry, Tyrone, Fermanagh and Armagh all awaiting in Div 2 (get your season ticket early). If they can develop further from today I would fancy them to be promoted, which is now essential for their development. Would changing the management be beneficial if they reverted to traditional man to man football which I suspect might happen with the possible new candidates being touted (GG)
I think this current management would get them promoted by hook or by crook. Now.

mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1068 - 11/07/2015 21:50:39    1751628

Brend one of the most honest posts on this forum for a long time. Fair play as looking beyond rose tinted glasses on this forum does not happen very often. Tyrone with Garvaghy and how impressively that was financed should be the foundation for Tyrone but the senior team while winning qualifiers seems to be not getting the best out of undoubted potential. A bit like us although in our case the manager is only in his first year and we have resource issues primarily created by the old hurling board which is impacting negatively on developing both football and hurling in the county. As we head up to Armagh today these are the questions that consume me and the future outlook rather than the here and now. As an aside Galway were one of the first to build a centre of excellence with the football centre outside Claregalway but that needs extension with hurling teams now in after their botched efforts to develop a hurling centre of excellence outside Athenry.

kiloughter (Galway) - Posts: 1977 - 12/07/2015 08:47:06    1751648

Congrats to Tyrone, the draw for the next round will tell a lot about them. I think that a run this year is slighty beyond them, but you never know either, if they can hold a team to a couple of points and nick a goal, they are awfully dogget till the end. I also think that in a year or 2 they will be formidible with some of their u21s joining the ranks.

Hard luck to Meath, their bad run continues. They can neither win by playing man to man nor by a blanket. Its easy to blame the line all of the time, but just maybe they dont have the players or the mentality or both this year. Promotion is a must for them to push on next year, and then they could get a bit of traction going. Mysterious how the mighty have fallen.

Donegalman (None) - Posts: 3849 - 12/07/2015 12:50:36    1751731

the qualifiers really have become a funny sort of competition. going out of omagh i was hapy with the performanace more than the result as a meath man. of course id love to have won but really needed to see a battling performance. for county like meath who are not gunning for the sam the qualifieers are a strange thing, kind of a jolly up and tourist trail for fans but always u know they will end in failure. i dont by into this top 6/8 stuff, there is no prize for that. so whats the point in being 15th or 7 tth in ireland?? the league is much more important for meath once leinster is over. we need to play the top teams each week ,each year. id like to see us peak in march/april next year rather then july. like i said i would be more disapointed coming out of omagh next spring if defeated than yesterday and that is strange.

dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 841 - 12/07/2015 13:21:27    1751744

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McCurry was dropped wtf? He's class love watching him play, if Tyrone have 6 better forwards than him then Sam is there's for the taking.

Didn't get to Omagh yesterday but was at both previous games- Limerick and Donegal. Agree that McCurry is a top forward but unfortunately the system Tyrone play is completely alien to him. He's a scoring corner forward but when a team plays so defensively the forwards gets dragged back so therefore he finds himself too far away from the scoring zone. I genuinely feel sorry for him as he is playing like a lad with little confidence at the moment.

Ed (UK) - Posts: 156 - 12/07/2015 13:53:53    1751754

Hi brendtheredhand, I have a bit of catching up to do (10,000 posts)

paddyogall (Mayo) - Posts: 5110 - 12/07/2015 17:31:21    1751864

Ah Paddy, things have moved on since you were last one here mate, have you been on a religious retreat or something, did you see 51longago whilst you were there?

brendtheredhand (Tyrone) - Posts: 10897 - 12/07/2015 21:00:18    1752123

Stone wall penalty and anyone that thinks it was not . Well need pair of specs

Dellboypolecat (Tyrone) - Posts: 15069 - 13/07/2015 09:46:49    1752263