Enda McGinley believes Mickey Harte will be concerned by Tyrone's performance - or lack thereof - against Monaghan.

After an encouraging start, the Red Hands succumbed meekly to their neighbours from the 20th minute onwards in their league opener at Omagh on Saturday night:

"The forwards definitely underperformed again," former Tyrone midfielder McGinley told The Belfast Telegraph. "Like the rest of the team they started quite brightly, then faded out of it and struggled to cope with Monaghan's intensity following that.

"After the injury to Sean [Cavanagh], you could see that edge was taken off them a bit. Whenever a team is struggling, you do look to your leaders, so certainly Mickey will be concerned that players who were in good enough form in the McKenna Cup didn't quite carry that into the National League.

"It is a game at the end of January. It was played in wind and rain and bitter snow, I wouldn't be hanging any of those players out to dry.

"Having seen them in club football there is plenty of ability there, they just need to gel as a unit and bring the biggest feature of Monaghan - not necessarily their ability, but their intensity, their effort, getting in hard and working hard."

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