Mickey Harte insists that Sligo will provide formidable opposition to his Tyrone team at Croke Park on Saturday.

The Yeats County were blown away by Mayo in Sunday's Connacht final and their chances of putting it up to the Red Hands are being largely dismissed. But Harte is wary of them:

"That's what people do - sometimes they jump to conclusions," the Tyrone boss states in The Irish News. "If we take the aggregate performance between the Roscommon match and the Mayo game, then certainly Sligo would be a much more formidable outfit than if you look at the [Mayo] game as a single entity.

"They were actually quite superb against Roscommon who, at that time, fancied themselves to go a long way in the championship.

"Sligo didn't become a bad team in one game. The wheels came off the wagon very early for them and Mayo had the capacity to punish that because of their physicality and because they got the breaks early.

"Sligo had chances for points before the early goals and if those had gone over they could have changed the complexion of the game. They didn't deserve to be beaten by as much because of the quality that's in their team, but on the day nothing went right for them. In the midst of all that, Sligo getting 2-11 is good going."

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