Tyrone missed a 'massive opportunity' - McConville

Armagh All-Ireland victor Oisin McConville believes Tyrone were "caught napping" successful their season-ending nonaccomplishment to Roscommon.

The Rossies authored a astonishment 0-14 to 0-12 victory astatine Healy Park to book their spot successful nan All-Ireland SFC quarter-finals.

Their first ever title triumph complete Tyrone came aft a first half capacity that had Davy Burke's broadside up 0-9 to 0-3 astatine nan interval.

"The measurement they started nan game, they deserved to triumph it. The measurement Tyrone started nan game, they deserved to suffer it," said Wicklow head McConville on nan BBC's gaelic games podcast The GAA Social.

McConville said he was "shocked" to spot Tyrone walk up an opportunity to beforehand to nan quarter-finals.

He added: "They were measurement disconnected successful each facet of nan game. They came into it good successful the second half but, let's look it, nan harm was done.

"I'll beryllium honest, play that crippled different 3 times, Tyrone probably wins nan adjacent three, but they were caught napping large time.

"Roscommon brought a ferocity to it that Tyrone couldn't grip which shocked maine to beryllium honorable because I thought Tyrone would spot this arsenic a monolithic opportunity."

Half-time introductions Peter Harte and Eoin McElholm improved matters for Tyrone, and location were nan accustomed flashes of inspiration from Darragh Canavan, but nan Red Hands had near themselves pinch excessively overmuch to do.

"You can't commencement a crippled astatine that tempo and expect to alteration it midstream," said McConville.

"They astir did it. By half clip it was going to return thing unbelievable to move it around.

"They'll beryllium kicking themselves because they'll realise that if they commencement pinch nan aforesaid mentality arsenic nan 2nd half, aliases if they lucifer Roscommon physically, they would person had nan amended of them.

"You person to manus it to Roscommon for coming pinch nan ferocity that they did."

Having not precocious beyond nan past 8 since lifting Sam Maguire successful 2021, McConville believes different early Tyrone exit from nan title was nan consequence of "not being mentally right" connected nan time against Roscommon.

"It comes down to nan cognition pinch which they started nan game," he added.

"They weren't arsenic up for it arsenic Roscommon. They weren't fresh for what Roscommon were going to bring and that's nan astir shocking thing of all, particularly erstwhile they're astatine home.

"They paid a hefty value for not being mentally correct going connected to nan field."