Conal McCann is under no illusions as to how difficult it is to nail down a place in the Tyrone senior football team.

Manager Mickey Harte fielded much-changed starting XVs for the Red Hands' McKenna Cup outings against Cavan and Fermanagh and will have to disappoint a few lads when selecting his side for Sunday's final:

"He must have a headache picking the team," McCann notes in The Irish News. "Some boys are showing really well, and that's not to mention four or five Jordanstown boys that are coming back in as well.

"Boys have claims to stake and they want to get their place on the team. It's good for Mickey that he has so much to choose from, but from the players' point of view, it's very hard to try and get on this team and keep you place.

"We have four good wins now, and every game there have been boys who have played well. You think they're flying, and then you go to the next game, and they mightn't have as good a game.

"So it's very hard for him to pick and it's very hard as a player to impress him because there's 30-odd men doing the exact same and that basically is what the McKenna Cup is about for us, trying to get boys into that frame of mind that they can play in the league, play in the championship, so we're just happy to get another game so we can show what we're made of, and some of the squad players, including myself, can stake a claim for the league."

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