Harte craves consistency from Tyrone

REPLAYS tend to be strange affairs, often bearing little resemblance to their predecessor.

That’s the rule, as Mickey Harte accepts, but as the Tyrone manager put it this week: “there are occasionally exceptions to every rule.”

Will the replay of Armagh and Tyrone be such an exception? We remain in a state of mild confusion as to where exactly these two teams stand. Tyrone dominated the first game, Stephen O’Neill almost drawing Frank McGuigan comparisons with his power-house display, yet they still find themselves back in Croke Park for the sequel.