Tony Scullion says he could have asked his Cargin club-mates to withdraw from the Antrim squad.

Scullion and Tomas and Michael McCann will all be absent from the Saffrons' championship squad this summer after a fall-out with management when the first-mentioned duo chose to attend an anniversary mass for a relative on the morning of the Division Three league match against Monaghan.

The 30-year-old wing back says he could have made life very uncomfortable for manager Frank Dawson but has instead rowed in behind his former team-mates:

"I could have made it a club issue and I didn't," he says in The Irish News.

"I sort of operate as a lonesome boatman. I'll fight my own battles. I didn't actually think it would have gone as far as it did, to be honest.

"I've a lot of friends on the Antrim team - the likes of big Chris Kerr and Mickey Pollock - I spent more time with them than I did with my own club-mates.

"So I wish the boys all the best against Monaghan - I'll support those boys 100%." Tweet

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