ulster final: monaghan v tyrone

aidz

as a monaghan man, i am really looking forward to this game come sunday.
outside the county not many are giving monaghan a chance. however, if we can play our best football, keep disciplined and nullify tyrone i believe we could carry off a famous victory.
19 years since our last appeearence in the final. tyrone were the opponents then too. gunning for the same result.

btw: i think its great that the final is back in clones. makes for a better atmosphere in my opinion. hopefully the pubs will be full of the farney army celebrating come 4pm!!:D

mise_me_fein

Ah I hope you can do it. Louth drew with Tyrone last year. If you play like you did against Derry you will win. Derry got some jammy scores. You should have won by more and look what they did to Armagh.

Carrickman

Best of luck Monaghan, after what Sligo done last Sunday it could be another trilling final!!

gucci

would be great to see monaghan pull it off for the "little guys" like sligo, however tyrone are a different proposition than galway. then again monaghan are probably stronger shooting wise than sligo. id love to see it happen but the fact is tyrone were awesome against donegal in every position, im not sure what team would live with them in that mode. good luck to monaghan but i think it will be a tyrone victory

Kojak

gucci wrote:

would be great to see monaghan pull it off for the "little guys" like sligo, however tyrone are a different proposition than galway.

That's true. Galway were at best, 6th or 7th in the odds for Sam. Tyrone are close second favourites to Kerry.

I cant really see anything other than a Tyrone win in this game as they really want to claim back the Ulster title that Armagh have had since tyrone themselves won it in 2003.

Tyrone to win by 5+ points

Carb

Personally, I think this will be a lot closer than expected for the following reasons.

1. I believe Monaghan are actually quite a good team and not every game they win can be down to the other team playing bad.
2 Its a final and they have nothing to loose. They're full of confidence and despite Tyrones hunger, I feel there is an even greater hunger in the Monaghan side.
3. Last year when Armagh and All Irelands were been mentioned in the one sentence, Monaghan should have had Armagh kicked off the pitch the first day, and only for a lack of tactical awareness, could have won the second day.
4. Monaghan now have support up front for Freeman. Previously, if you bottled up Freeman you stopped Monaghan scoring.
5. Which Tyrone team is going to turn up. The mediocre team that struggled past Fermanagh, or the team that looked awesome against Donegal, and you would still have to question the Donegal performance that day.
6. There appears to be a different mentality in the team this year that stops them giving up when things get shaky (eg Derry's goal), and they now seem capable of grinding out results.
7. Fitness. Unlike other years, the team can play at full pace for the full 70 minutes and are generally stronger in the second half. Maybe people will argue that they don't have the talent of other counties, but the same cannot be said of their fitness levels.

I'm not naive enough to say that Monaghan will definitely beat Tyrone, but I certainly think they have every chance.

Win or loose though, as long as I can turn around at the end of the match and say that they played their best, I'll be happy.

treen74

Anyone know where I can get a live stream of the game - I'm struggling

Nalced_irl

Depends treen, RTE cant stream it ouside Ireland as i think Setanta own the rights abroad so if your in Ireland, RTE, if not well i think your out of luck unfortunately.

kaimera

HT:

1-8 : 0-7 to Tyrone.

kaimera

FT:

1-15 : 1-13 to Tyrone

Carb

Well I said I'd be happy if I could turn around at the end of the game and say they played their best, and for that reason, I can't say I was overly happy. The truth is they played ok. For some periods of the game they were very good, like the last 20 minutes, and other times they were atrocious, like the first and third quarters. They practically gifted Tyrone 4/5 of their scores by kicking or passing the ball staight into their hands in our half back line, not to mention the couple of close in frees that Owen Mulligan "won", when it was obvious to everyone in the ground bar the referee that he was fouling the full back. I realise "drawing the foul" is something a lot of forwards do, but it doesn't make it any nicer to watch.

Despite been out of the game for such long periods, Monaghan still had enough wides/goal chances to have won it, and I feel their biggest weakness yesterday was their lack of experience. I certainly think Monaghan can play a lot better, and feel the rest of the summer isn't all doom and gloom just yet, although to listen to the Sunday Game last night, you think Monaghan played the game of thier lives yesterday and their season was over. Donegal won't be easy, but it won't be the formality that they were insinuating. I would be quietly confident that we can win.

Only gripe I have from yesterday was the frequency with which Tyrone players apparently needed treatment:rolleyes:

yop

Well done Tyrone, very impressive in periods but still cannot handle the high ball.
I still think Monaghan can make a All-Ireland semi if the draw is "nice" to them as they are very pacey and fit.

Great game to watch