"We're on a different curve than they are at the moment and I don't like that"
April 05, 2016
Tyrone manager Mickey Harte.
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Mickey Harte is concerned by Tyrone's slump in form ahead of their Division Two final clash with Cavan.
While the buoyant Breffni County go into Sunday fortnight's Croke Park decider on the back of five straight victories, the Red Hands have drawn their last two league outings against Armagh and Fermanagh, subconsciously taking their foot off the gas once promotion had been secured.
"We're on a different curve than they are at the moment and I don't like that, so we need to check our curve and get it going upwards again," Harte is quoted in The Belfast Telegraph.
"We now have to go into a final with two relatively poor results from our own perspective. Not just the results, casting no aspersions on the opposition, but the quality of our play too.
"It's all about the quality of our play that we're talking about here, not even the results, and in the last two games we think that it hasn't been good enough.
"They played through those conditions, both Armagh and Fermanagh, the same as ourselves and I think they acquitted themselves better on both occasions than we did over the 70 minutes, so we have to take stock of that and we have to try to get a new gear for ourselves for the final in Croke Park, because if we don't, it will be another league final lost."
