Mickey Harte says Tyrone have gathered a lot of experience during the last two years.

The Red Hands' rebuilding programme delivered an Ulster title in 2016 as well as promotion to Division One and Harte believes the players will be confident going into the new season:

"I think it gives them a great deal of confidence to know that they're capable of playing at a very high level and we have a lot of younger players in the entire squad at the minute and they've never had this experience before," he told The Irish News.

"And now they've got two years of very valuable experience and I hope that we'll see the real value of that when they go to Division One of the league next year and they meet the top teams because, for some of these players, that will be their first experience of a Division One league campaign.

"And I think that, along with a real assault on retaining the Ulster title, would give them a huge amount of confidence, but these are challenges that we'll face in 2017 and I hope they'll bring the confidence of the last two years with them to do that."

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