Mickey Harte insists the favourites' tag will count for nothing when Tyrone face Cavan in Sunday's Ulster SFC semi-final.
The Red Hands are fancied to not only account for the Breffnimen before also to lift the Anglo-Celt Cup this year. However, their manager is taking nothing for granted, especially after the scare Tyrone received from Cavan en route to winning the All-Ireland in 2005.
"The last time I remember in 2005, when they (Cavan) drew with us first, and then we had them in the replay," he recalled in the Irish News.
"That will tell you. At that stage, we would have been red-hot favourites to beat them on that particular day. We had only won the All-Ireland two years previously, and they gave us a torrid time.
"So maybe that's a good lesson for us as well. Lots of people would be suggesting that we should be favourites for the Ulster championship.
"I don't know how that came about so fast, but it did, and we have no control over it, so we have to learn to keep that in context, and leave it in the domain of those who fiddle about with numbers and prices and things like that.
"We have to be realistic and know that on any given day, in Ulster, anybody can beat anybody else."
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