Paul Flynn rates Tyrone above Derry and Armagh in the All-Ireland rankings, despite their early Ulster SFC demise.

Derry and Armagh played out a dramatic Ulster SFC final yesterday which was only settled after an historic penalty shootout, but Flynn still thinks Tyrone have a better chance of lifting the Sam Maguire. 

"It’s amazing that Derry don’t top the list, even though they’ve put in such a consistent level of performance all throughout the league – bar the league final – and even in the Ulster Championship and again today," the former Dublin star said on The Sunday Game.

"They’re showing everything – the winning mentality, the structure, all the ingredients. But I can’t get the league final out of my head. I was there, they just didn’t perform against Dublin, four goals [conceded] that day. So that leads me to Tyrone.

"When I was playing they were always competitive, we saw it with them winning the All-Ireland a couple of years ago. Saw them up in Monaghan, they were excellent in the first half and I thought 'they’re back to the level they were at’ but then they go on to lose that game.

"But now, with a bit of a gap they’ll take a lot from that."

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