No shortcuts for Cavan’s long game

Mickey Harte didn’t see this coming.

Not so much the presence of his own Tyrone side in tomorrow’s Division 2 final, but rather that of Cavan, whom they defeated in Omagh back on the last day of January and a side bettered by Derry in Breffni Park a week later.

“The start that they had, it is amazing that they have actually come to qualify for this final and get promotion,” said Harte this week. “If I had been in the position where we had lost our first two games, I would have been saying ‘that’s promotion gone’. Cavan didn’t do that.