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Michael Scully

Brian Dooher won't be drawn on his Tyrone future as they crash out of Championship

Brian Dooher says the future of the Tyrone management team will "look after itself in due course" after the heavy All-Ireland SFC quarter-final defeat to Kerry.

Dooher, who took charge with fellow former Red Hands star Feargal Logan in November, guided the county to Sam Maguire in their first season.

But the manner of this 2-18 to 0-12 defeat to the reigning champions will take time to get over, with Dooher insisting that playing three weekends in a row in the championship is no excuse.

READ MORE: Jack O'Connor promises more to come from Kerry after demolishing Tyrone

"I haven’t given it much thought yet," he said, when asked about the management team's next course of action.

"We have to digest the disappointment first and then we will give it some thought afterwards. That will look after itself in due course. Whatever will be will be."

The All-Ireland final victory over Mayo means that the Dooher/Logan partnership will go down in history, but the latter said: “Well, you want to leave it in a better place than when you got it.

"You move things on and you would like to move them on better. In the three years we definitely had some big achievements.

"It’s just today it’s disappointing to end the way it ended today, just looking at this year on its own merits.

"We were sloppy enough with the ball I thought, with unforced turnovers. We weren’t as cohesive as normally. You have to give Kerry a bit of credit for it.

"We will look back and see the video of it but it’s hard to call it now, what happened, was it the pressure that was the big contributor to why we couldn’t get our hands on enough ball and couldn’t get scores.

"Kerry are a good team, they play football the way you want to play football. They did what they done to us there tonight and we were second best on too many occasions.

"And that’s what happened. We couldn’t get enough people to dominate their own respective areas. And once that happens it’s an uphill battle."

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