Former Tyrone star Enda McGinley feels the Red Hands can answer some of the questions hovering over them after a below par league campaign when they face Armagh this Sunday.

Malachy O’Rourke’s side finished their Division 2 campaign with just two wins from two outings and head to the Box-It Athletic Grounds this weekend as 13/5 underdogs (PaddyPower) to pick up what would be their third competitive victory of the season against the Orchard men who are 2/5 favourites.

Speaking on the RTE GAA podcast this week ahead of the Ulster SFC preliminary round showdown, three-time all-Ireland winner McGinley says that all the ingredients are there within the group for Tyrone to produce the upset on Sunday.

"The team at the minute, are they hungry enough and keen enough to go after this in a really big way and bring that massive energy that the modern game demands and that we've seen throughout the league from teams like Armagh - even though the results have went against them; from Galway, Kerry, Donegal, all the top teams, Meath, Cork?” asked the former Antrim boss.

"Teams, whenever they're playing the modern game at the very top level, it's an amazing energy. It's a brilliant thing to see those top performance levels.

"(With) Tyrone, we have seen it in a phase against Offaly, in a phase against Cavan, and the first 15-20 minutes against Meath in Croke Park.

"They played with a real energy and when they do that, that's phenomenal. But two of those teams, Offaly and Cavan, are at the lower reaches of Division 2, and (against) Meath, they fell away in that game as well.

"So we've seen little evidence that Tyrone have really embraced that energy level that they need to bring. And is that a quality issue? Is it an energy issue? Is it a team atmosphere issue? All those question marks are there.

"They have the place as a group to give a hell of an answer in the Athletic Grounds, and that's with or without a result."

Tweet

Most Read Stories