Mickey Harte already plotting for 2017

Less than a week after Tyrone’s agonising exit from the All-Ireland series, Mickey Harte has already begun his preparations for a fresh challenge in 2017.

He will gather his players around him before the weekend to lay out his plans for next season.

Garvaghey is the likely setting for a squad meeting which Harte regards as strategically important, despite the lingering, raw pain of Saturday’s narrow one point quarter-final defeat to Mayo.