Dooher determined to balance work and play: ‘Everything suffers a bit for it, but we enjoy it’

The triumph in their first season set a bar they have failed to meet since. They still carry expectation with them. They crave it.

BALANCING ACT: Brian Dooher balances a full time job with managing Tyrone. Pic: Ramsey Cardy/Sportsfile

Where are they going? What are they at? Since that delirious summer of 2021 and their fourth Sam Maguire Cup, Tyrone have won just three of nine championship games. They head into Breffni Park off the back of a 21-point Dublin mauling.

The general consensus at the start of this campaign was that the time had come for Brian Dooher and Feargal Logan to filter in a cohort from the 2022 U20 All-Ireland winning side. Over the course of the league that is exactly what they did. 30 different individuals featured. Three of them played every available minute, Niall Morgan, Brian Kennedy and Cormac Devlin.