Sean Cavanagh says Tyrone's one-point loss to Dublin was harder to take than their heavy defeat to Kerry last month.

Despite staging a stirring second half comeback which saw them wipe out a nine-point deficit, the Red Hands fell to a Diarmuid Connolly injury-time winner and thus missed out on a place in the Allianz League semi-finals.

"People will say it was a decent loss, but it's still a loss," the Tyrone captain reflected when speaking to the Strabane Weekly News.

"Sometimes I would rather lose by 20 points than lose by one. I would almost take getting beat by the margin we did down in Killarney, because there today the amount of scoring opportunities we missed, even in the second half, just wasn't good enough for this Tyrone team.

"We know we can do better. We know that was probably the benchmark that we were playing out there today, but we're going to have to get that bit of grit and determination to finish teams off and not let them run away from us the way Dublin and the way Kerry have in this league. We have a bit of work to do." Tweet

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