Ciaran McGinley says sluggish starts would prove costly to Tyrone in the championship.

Slow starts were one of the features of the Red Hands' league campaign - most notably in their last game when they shipped two goals inside the first two minutes - and McGinley accepts that they will have to be stamped out from now until the end of the year:

"We have not really started the best in a lot of our games," the Errigal Ciaran clubman says in The Irish News.

"There has to be a mental change in our approach, maybe - to train towards a quicker or a better start in order to get a foothold in the game.

"The start is a massive thing, especially in championship football. A split second at county level is maybe four or five seconds at club level. You get punished with the pace of the game.

"The Dublin game proved that. With free runners, a bit of space and in an open game of football, you can get destroyed at times." Tweet

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