Niall Morgan has spoken of his frustration at the sniping surrounding the Tyrone team, particularly when they are enduring a poor run of results.
The long-serving goalkeeper was speaking on GPA’s Players’ Voice podcast and noted the change in tone towards players last year as Tyrone put up a poor defence of the Ulster and All-Ireland titles that they won in 2021.
Morgan noted that it resurfaced this year already after they slumped to defeat to Derry in last month’s McKenna Cup final.
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He said: “You look back to last year and we're out early and you're meeting people and the first thing they say is, 'What happened you this year? What's going on up there? I hear such and such had a fight in training and I hear this and that'.
“You're just thinking, 'That couldn't be any further from the truth'.
“Even this year we started ok and then once Derry beat us in the McKenna Cup final it was, 'Everything looks disjointed, it looks like boys aren't getting on and boys don't care'.
“Like, I sort of talked to the boys about it at the weekend, nobody on any county team goes and trains three, four nights a week and shows up for a game at the weekend because they don't care, or because they don't want to be there, do you know what I mean?
“I think right from when I was on the Tyrone panel, I always felt it was important that we stood up for ourselves and weren't afraid to get our point across if we needed.”
It was with that in mind that he became a GPA rep and now sits on the players’ body’s national executive committee.
