Tyrone identified one significant issue following last year's All Ireland SFC Quarter-Final defeat against Mayo.

Mickey Harte simply wanted his team to be more clinical in attack. The 2017 Championship has been encouraging from an attacking perspective for Tyrone.

In four victories over Derry, Donegal, Down, and Armagh, the in form Red Hands have registered 6-77.

"We were trying very hard last year," Harte says. "We had a very good season up until we met Mayo and we did create many more chances than we converted. So that is something the players have thought long and hard about.

"I’ve always said, in all the years I’ve been involved in management of teams, I’d rather be creating chances, even if you are not taking as many as you’d like, than not creating chances at all.

"When you’re creating chances, there’s always a chance that you’ll get enough to do. If you’re not creating chances, then you’re certainly not going to be in with a chance to win anything."

Tyrone's conversion rate has improved and the hard work is being reflected on matchday according to Harte.

"We’ve worked very much on people preparing to take on shots, but you can’t just wait to the day of the game to do that," Harte admits.

"We need this in training every night. We need players who may not normally be shooters finding themselves in positions to take scores. I think that has contributed to the spread of scores we have had.

"We now have players who don’t believe ‘I get a nosebleed here’ if they find themselves in a position to take a shot. Instead, it’s ‘I am prepared and capable of taking this on’.

"Now some players will obviously have a higher return for their shots than others, but that shouldn’t stop other people from taking those shots – unless there’s somebody in a better place.

"So, yes, there’s been a whole lot of thought around the idea of finishing better. But I can’t say that transformation will just take place in one year either."

The spread of Tyrone scorers in the 2017 Championship provides Harte with huge encouragement too.

"We’ve hit some purple patches this year and when you do that, not so much those scores in themselves – although they’re very valuable on the scoreboard – they give a confidence to the entire team, saying ‘If we take this on, we can get more than this’.

"It’s not the scores in themselves, it’s the confidence they give to people. The whole idea that lots of people score on every day we’ve played this year, to me that’s a good thing."