Tyrone boss Mickey Harte has dismissed the notion that his team are an "ultra-defensive" outfit. 

The Red Hands have averaged 23 points in their outings this summer, retaining their Ulster SFC title before dishing out an 18-point hammering to Armagh to set-up an All-Ireland semi-final showdown with Dublin next Sunday week.

Nonetheless, Harte feels that some pundits have cited them as a defensive outfit which sets up to stop the opposition.

"I suppose it's just about who shouts loudest are maybe heard more and it doesn't necessarily have to be accurate, and because you say things people might think they are true," he is quoted saying by The Irish News.

"Simple things like the so-called "ultra-defensive" tag - and I have pointed this out for a couple of years and I've been to matches that Kerry have been involved in, Dublin and Mayo have been involved in and I have seen on many occasions when there were 12, 13 and 14 men behind the ball.

"They're not synonymous with that stuff yet they do it.

"People look what we do, and of course there are times we have lots of men behind the ball but there are as many times where we have more than six people in the front half of the field.

"Let's have perspective on this; let's look at it in the round rather than painting a particular picture that you want to paint. If you look at it accurately and forensically at every team, then I'd be happy."

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