Tyrone's Mickey Harte wary of Armagh momentum
A famous Ulster rivalry will be renewed in Saturday’s All-Ireland quarter-final at Croke Park, and the Tyrone boss has admitted he is impressed by the steel and resilience shown by the Orchard since they crashed out of the Ulster Championship. He also likened the Orchard resurgence to his own team’s 2008 odyssey, when they fell to provincial defeat to Down, before going on to win a third Sam Maguire Cup title.
“They’re actually growing with the qualifiers, as we well know,” said Harte. “We went out in 2008 in the Ulster Championship, we grew in confidence, and we got that bit of momentum as the games kept coming and, actually, you get a chance to manufacture your team more through the All-Ireland Qualifiers. I’m not saying I would choose that route, I would still rather be on the straightforward road.
