Dubs have improved, but not enough

ONE or two pundits have been hedging their bets over this one in the past week but it is hard to see why. Yes, Dublin have improved, but not to the extent that they can expect to defeat Tyrone in August.

This is not the same Tyrone team that the Dubs wiped the floor with back in April in Omagh. There was no Pascal McConnell playing that day. No Justin McMahon, Kevin Hughes, Brian Dooher or Owen Mulligan.

Sean Cavanagh was only back a wet week from injury. In the months since, Tyrone blitzed Antrim for 35 minutes, recovered from a disastrous 20 to destroy Down and walked all over Monaghan in the Ulster final.