There are two ways to look ahead to this coming Sunday's mouth watering Ulster Championship clash versus champions Tyrone. Red, or Saffron.
Reasons to be fearful:
Our footballers have run out of steam at the wrong time of year
The return of the St Galls players has upset the rhytmn and structure of the team
It's Tyrone for Gods sake! They don't do 'fairytales'.
Our last experience of the red hands in the Championship was a 6 point defeat which in reality didn't reflect the gap in quality between the sides.
We are too reliant on Paddy for scores
Enough of that - reasons to be cheerful:
Our guys got the job (promotion) done easing up - after a powerful and impressive series of 4 league wins in succession
The first match to feature the St Galls boys was V Louth, the highest quality first half display from a saffron side in decades
Baker has had almost two months to re mould the squad and oversee smooth re-integration
Kevin McGourty is back on board, and no-one can doubt his talent and potential to make a significant contribution to the team
Its not the old Tyrone, it's the one which got relegated, which had a do or die game V the Dubs, and died. It's Div 2 versus Div 2.
If you put our first half V Louth alongside our second half V Cavan - nobody could live with that.
It's in Casement - where the support can actually make a difference on the day.
We have the most talented pool of players available to the management - who can say for certain what our best team is?
James Loughrey
I choose to look on the saffron side of life, Sunday could come to represent a painful defeat, but there is a good chance it could be one of those days that in years to come we all look back on and say "I was there when we beat Tyrone".
Don't risk missing it.
Club Aontroma will be selling ballots on the day, proceeds in aid of the Dunsilly building fund. The Club Aontroma twitter stream will provide intermittent updates and give a flavour of the day. But really, unless you are following the twitter from abroad, your place is in Casement Park. See you there.
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