Harte to coax back retirees?
May 29, 2012
Tyrone's Brian Dooher
As the O'Neill County's injury crisis deepens - with Kyle Coney, Ronan O'Neill, Tommy McGuigan and now Sean Cavanagh all sidelined - Harte admits that he may have to turn to some of his recently-retired stars for a dig-out:
"You have to look at what's required - do any of those players have an interest in helping us out? And a lot of things have to fit together for that to happen.
"I could not say at this time, but we have to look at all options. If we need to add some people to the panel we'd certainly look at those options.
"Some things in life you can't change and you have to deal with what you're faced. I think there's a lot of experience in the squad, there are a lot of good players there and I think we'll be able to roll up the sleeves so to speak and deliver their best performance.
"If they do that then we'll not be too far away," the Tyrone boss continues in the Irish Times.
"It will test the strength in depth of the squad. People talk about when you get a few injuries other players can come in, but you're reducing your options all the while.
"Since they'll all on one side of the field, it's going to prove problematic. Really good forwards don't grow on trees and it takes a long time to mature them.
"It reminds me of 2006 when we came back after winning the All-Ireland and we had five or six great players sitting in the stand for the first match when we played Derry in Omagh.
"You just have to deal with it and I think it will ask serious questions of the rest of the squad and maybe give an opportunity to a player who maybe didn't think they'd get one just as quickly as they will do now." Tweet
