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Declan Bug
Saturday's crowd at Healy Park, when Tyrone hosts Dublin in the second phase of the Super 8 series, may see travel support surpbad their opposition, according to Tyrone sources.
Healy Park has a capacity of 17,636 seats, with 4,500 seats, 16 wheelchair seats and 13,120 seats on the terrace.
Dublin is one of the few counties that are fully subscribers with 2,500 subscriptions, although they also have something in the area of Parnell's 1,000 season subscriptions Park that might also need to be covered.
The overall distribution of tickets between Dublin clubs is about 4,000, with Parnell Park ticket holders included.
However, Dublin fans can still buy tickets on general sales, with tickets available online yesterday and through the Centra and SuperValu outlets.
More than 1,200 season ticket holders, but attendance at Omagh has not been the same as before, with Monaghan ticket holders outnumbering Red Hand fans for their quarter final of Ulster in May. All season ticket holders, however, will be placed in the terraces for this game.
While many are eager to see how Dublin are doing on their only Leinster match this season, and their only game of Croke Park For In the Super 8 series, Tyrone's manager, Mickey Harte, has downplayed the effect of the game at Omagh.
"Is Omagh a great fortress for us?" He asked
. but I guess we've never played a championship game of this magnitude before, so we'll see what we can do with that. But I would not depend on the field to win this match for us, we would depend on many other things.
At the time Harte was a senior executive, Tyrone played 11 league games at Healy Park, winning seven wins, two drafters (vs. Down in 2008 and 2014) and two other losers (Armagh in 2014, Derry in 2006).
Harte spoke of the unique challenge of having Dublin competing in a league game outside of his own province. "It's something we never imagined would happen, but it's a very original idea, the champions of Ireland, all of Dublin, to play a championship game in Omagh in July Harte
Obviously, we should be motivated.When you play the All-Ireland Champions you have to be motivated – if you're not motivated to play against the All-Ireland Champions, then you are very hard to motivate and wonder if you can be motivated at all.
"We can not make that the stone on which we build a performance because it does not make sense. We must be better in all the things we do well.
"We must add value to this and know that even that does not guarantee a result but it should guarantee us to be more competitive than the last one"
Roscommon's win at the end of the week was bitter-sweet summer for Tyrone striker Cathal McShane, who learned of his grandmother's death a few minutes after the final whistle, 91-year-old Bridget McShane reportedly dead five minutes before the throw-in Saturday
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