Colm Cavanagh says Tyrone's championship starts now.

Dumped out of the Ulster SFC by Donegal, Mickey Harte's men have been paired with Offaly in the first round of the Qualifiers. It's do or die for the rest of the campaign:

"Now the real championship starts, for me personally," the Red Hand midfielder tells today's Irish News. "It's back to knockout and there's no comfort factor any more.

"In an ideal world - we are not where we want to be. We didn't want to be going through the back door; we wanted to beat Donegal.

"We have taken a blow but we just have to to pick ourselves up and look forward to the next - hopefully - few games and see where that takes us.

"If we can get a run going, get a few matches under our belts, well who knows?" Tweet

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