Assistant manager Gavin Devlin says a lot of what Tyrone do is "off the cuff".

Following the facile Ulster SFC quarter-final victory over neighbours Derry on Sunday, the Ardboe man explains in The Irish News that the Red Hands are encouraged to "think on their feet":

"Our players do a lot of it off the cuff. They're thinking players. There's no robots out there and there's no perfect script in any game of football, even in a training session there's no perfect script.

"You don't know how things will evolve and you have to adapt and add variety to whatever you do. We ask our players to think on their feet and adjust.

"If you have 15 robots, somebody will break it down. Even in a game, you think things are going well but there's always someone trying to anticipate your downfall.

"There's two teams playing out there; Derry had a gameplan. We'd no doubt they'd set things up to try and break us down, to tag men, and you have to adapt and think. That's football. We believe we have players who are quite good at it."

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