Harte claims TV games are disadvantage

Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has claimed that teams who featured in televised matches are at a disadvantage due to the advent of TV replays.

Three Tyrone players were suspended for their county's NFL Division One defeat against Mayo yesterday due to retrospective red-cards and Harte feels that being having their games televised in hindering his side.

'To do it fairly, every game in the League needs to be video-taped,' Harte said.

'If you do it with every game that's fine. I'm happy to live with that.

'But at the moment that doesn't seem to be the case so therefore you're disadvantaged if your games are on live TV.

'The fact is that had our game not been televised live last week we would have had Conor Gormley, Martin Penrose and Justin McMahon on our team.'

Hartes' mood will not have been helped by the fact that Joe McMahon was red-carded during Tyrone's 1-12 to 1-11 defeat against Mayo.