ragingbull
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Orange SashThat must be you in the Tyrone shirt
Your unique memories of All-Ireland Final day 2002
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ragingbull
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I remember the week leading up to the game that I was so convinced that we were going to take Sam home
Ard Mhacha 13
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Most definitely
I was among the throng on the pitch waving my flag. We have a photo of me, my Dad & my brother in front of "Oisin's" goals.
PatMustard
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Most definitely
Fair play. I was in upper Hogan, and couldn’t really get a proper look at the presentation. Only thing I could see was Sam glistening in the sunlight now and again.
I can’t even recall seeing anything on the big screen, even though it was there.
Ard Mhacha 13
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PatMustard
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I'm sure by this stage you've seen the trophy presentation a few times
Once or twice
Would Tyrone have won it so soon if we hadn't in 2002? I doubt it.
PatMustard
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They were so bitter about us winning Sam, that they went out the following year knowing they couldn’t win it playing football. They knew they had to bring the dark arts to another level and that’s what they did.
pablo
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True
There was a fundamental difference in how they approached winning the All Ireland. Armagh developed a teak tough psyche and a commitment to get the best from themselves. All purely directed at improving themselves and achieving their goal.
Tyrone got their motivation from bitterness,sheer spite and envy. They brought in a level of toxicity that poisoned the game, I remember at the end of the 2003 final offering my hand to congratulate a wee bollox in a red afro wig. He jeered and gave me the fingers. Always thought that moment summed them up. Their biggest moment-first all ireland and the immediate reaction of this fecker was to taunt an Armagh fan who had no interaction with him at all during the game.
pablo
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Probably not Mike-but I often think about what would have resulted if we had won the 2003 final. I know it is probably not healthy to dwell on it, but I genuinely think that we were getting a foothold and beginning to get on top just when Marsden was sent off. I read somewhere that Gormley would not have had the space to make the block if still marking Marsden at that time. I know, ifs and buts and maybes
However-I do think if we had edged out a win, it would have had a devastating effect on Tyrone. They invested so much anger, spite and emotion in that campaign and trying every trick to get some advantage-the sledging, flopping about, playing the media. If after all that, we had won, they would not have recovered and the odious wee feckers consigned to looking at the Mckenna cup as the pinnacle of their existence.
PatMustard
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Yup, that sums it up better.
Says more about him than you, pablo. You were the bigger man.
I’m still enraged about some Tyrone git stealing my program back in 2012.
ragingbull
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The Gaa wanted Tyrone to win the All Ireland in 2003 for Peter Canavan's sake that's a fact
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ragingbull
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In 2005 I still can't my head around why McGeeney was taken off in that game I was in tears after that game & on the way home I was so gutted
I have never watched a second of that game since. Taking him off baffles me to this day. We really snatched defeat from the jaws of victory that day.In 2005 I still can't my head around why McGeeney was taken off in that game I was in tears after that game & on the way home I was so gutted
PatMustard
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The Gaa wanted Tyrone to win the All Ireland in 2003 for Peter Canavan's sake that's a fact
Aye, I think I read that in the Annual Report.
JoeH
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Personally I thought he should have been off long before he was.In 2005 I still can't my head around why McGeeney was taken off in that game I was in tears after that game & on the way home I was so gutted
He had a poor game and was off the pace.
it was the wrong time to take him off
It was the losing of that game. Even some Tyrone players have spoken about it saying they couldn’t believe it and how much of a lift it gave them.
pablo
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Big Sean said as much-that Tyrone got a much needed lift when they saw McGeeney going off. Almost immediately afterwards, Cavanagh ran through the middle of the defence to score a point. Even if McGeeney was not playing that well, Tyrone were always wary of taking the ball into any area of possible contact with him.
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pablo
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To be fair, he was only a lad. It was his Da who deserved a toe up the hole, smirking and laughing with the lad. Probably there a few civil enough crayturs about, but the memory gets a bit selective and only remembers those bollox
Big Jim
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Ah here, I was onboard until you softened up!!!!