Having moved away from permanent sweepers as favoured by Mickey Harte, Brian Dooher and Fergal Logan deserve huge credit for this. They are excellent at identifying and getting to danger to ‘put out the fires’ as Kieran McGeary said last week. This generates serious intensity, is hard to play against but requires enormous energy and concentration. When Tyrone turned over the Connacht champions they counter-attacked at pace and sucked them out of shape. When they can’t overrun teams with their athleticism and hard running game, they struggle to score enough.

Source: Irish Examiner September 13, 2021 06:00 UTC