Tyrone are on the right track but Colm Cavanagh warns that they have "a hard road ahead of us".

Victory over Derry on Sunday secured the Red Hands an Ulster semi-final date with either Cavan or Armagh and their omnipresent midfielder accepts that there is much more work to do:

"We have not travelled well in the Ulster championship in recent years and that is a fact," he told The Belfast Telegraph. "Nor, indeed, have we scored too many goals in the competition. On those two fronts, Sunday's victory was very important to us. We knew that we had to rectify our deficiencies in the championship of late but we have just won one match. There is a hard road ahead of us."

"I thought we slipped into comfort mode in the second half on Sunday and that allowed Derry to come back on us.

"We were poor in the second half and we missed scoring chances. We made a lot of mistakes and this is something that we have to take on board. It's going to get no easier from here on in, we know that.

"Sometimes when you build up a good lead and get a cushion in games you are going to ease off. The crowd was quiet in the second-half but maybe if Derry had got closer to us there would have been more noise.

"This win was just the first step in what we hope will be a good championship campaign and it's important that we view it as being nothing more than that at this point in time."

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