Mickey Harte content as Tyrone get to grips with Roscommon

Tyrone 0-18 Roscommon 1-9: The Red Hands made a winning return to Division One with a battling display at Healy Park, recovering from an early Roscommon goal to impose themselves in an entertaining contest played in front of a crowd of 6,110.

Peter Harte and Niall Sludden made Tyrone tick, and even after losing Mattie Donnelly to injury after just 15 minutes, they never looked like losing. That was despite a few first-half scares, when the Connacht side’s direct approach created a handful of goal chances, but Niall Daly was the only man who found the net.

“Roscommon could have had more scores in the first half — they got one goal and we had two very good stops to stop it being three goals,” said Tyrone boss Mickey Harte. “If they had had three goals by half-time, it would have been a very different game.”