The best centre half forward in the country played his first game in a year and has served notice that he is on the way back at long last to county football.
Brian McGuigan played in an Ulster League quarter final for his club Ardboe yesterday and after coming on as a sub scored Ardboe's second goal in a game which finished in a draw.
This is great news for Mickey Harte's Tyrone but also for fans of Gaelic football all over the country.
McGuigan has been dogged by injury since 2006 and has played no part in the inter-county championship action since putting in a master class against Kerry in the 2005 final.
McGuigan quite simply is a class act, a player who always seems to have time and space on his hands despite all efforts to shackle him.
His quality has been sadly missed by Tyrone and the Red Hands’ full forward line has been misfiring without the pinpoint accurate passing which McGuigan brings to their game.
The Ardboe man also weighs in with his fair share of scores from out the field taking more than a little pressure off the front three.
Harte intends to include him in his squad for the National League game with Limerick this week and he will be keeping his fingers crossed that McGuigan's return can lift the Red Hands as it did early in 2005 in his return from Australia to further glory in the Sam Maguire.
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