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Published 10:53 21 Dec 2018 GMT
Updated 11:13 21 Dec 2018 GMT
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So where did it all go for Kyle Coney?
Well, as is often the case with the hottest minors in the country, the AFL came calling and Coney didn't refuse. He headed off to Australia, destination Sydney Swans only a few weeks after that minor triumph but Tyrone supporters were soon to be dealt the equivalent of a winning lottery ticket.
Coney, despite impressing Down Under came home for Christmas that year he never went back.
The expectations were getting out of hand now with the returning 18-year-old supposed to slot into the senior ranks with the speed and explosiveness they'd known him for.
But senior football is a different ball game to minor and the loss of that option to horse men out of it whenever he wanted softened his sting.
The pressure with being billed the second coming weighed on his shoulders and the gradual pairing away of his confidence combined with his own admission that he didn't put in the work off the field to come through saw him fall away.
It all reached tipping point in 2015 when, after years of injuries, false comings and disappointments, he was taken off in a McKenna Cup game and decided to walk away.
Two and a bit years on, McKenna Cup time again and Coney is waiving his talents again. Though a man of the match performance in a meaningless McKenna Cup game against Derry in December doesn't turn huge dials, it is a start and it does represent a chance for Kyle Coney to finally make the mark he threatened to make all those years ago.
His return to the panel has come through hard work and maybe that hard work will take him to where he was meant to go from the very start.
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Tyrone supporters are certainly having it.
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