Jury still out on Tyrone despite win over Sligo

Sligo 0-14 Tyrone 0-21

The sight of Mickey Harte and his Tyrone team in an All-Ireland quarter-final is nothing new. This routine defeat of Sligo on Saturday afternoon has brought to ten the number of such appearances they will have made now in the 13 seasons the man has been in charge.

Five of those were chalked up in his first half-dozen campaigns, but the frequency of their visits to HQ in August has slowed only slightly since they claimed the last of their three All-Ireland titles in 2008. Five times in the intervening years they have made the last eight.