@paddy: Paddy from Tyrone, Meath in the eighties and nineties had individual players far more talented than this Tyrone team. Brian Stafford, Colm O’Rourke, Martin OConnell, Graham Geraghty, Trevor Giles. Tyrone 2018 play to a system fundamentally built upon fear. There’s nothing honourable about their game.

@Conor Kilgallon: actually a clare man, with more interest in hurling. Funny how people like loughnane and Ring can be honourable and say there’s great players now but there’s better to come, 95 was a great year for us but looks like junior B stuff now. That Meath team would be thrashed by the current Tyrone team just like cork and roscommon, the current Dublin team are better than any other football team to come out of kerry or anywhere. But have a look these classic games, Dublin/kerry in thurles, dreadful stuff apart for the Maurice Fitzgerald kick at the end. Football is better now Conor my man, just because they kicked long and lined out in traditional formations doesn’t mean it was better to watch, Dublin/meath in 91 might have been exciting/close but the skill level was very poor.

@Conor Kilgallon: Cop yourself on, Conor. How is the Tyrone style built on fear? Their game plan involves conceeding kickouts and inviting teams on to them, and committing extra men to the tackle – two high risk strategies. You’re like a spoofer who has been listening to Spillane and co down the years and can’t form your own opinion in the here and now.

As for your eulogy of the Meath team of the 90′s, the less said the better, but what I would say is the current Tyrone team would run rings around them, and they themselves knew a thing or two about playing with fear – the only game plan they had in the 1996 semi final v Tyrone, knowing that Tyrone were hot favorites, was to use sickening levels of violence to take Tyrone’s key men out of the game.