Mickey Harte denies rift with Cavanagh

lukin

Surprised nobody has posted about this: seems like Sean Cavanagh's absence from the Tyrone team for the AI semi-final against Cork this year was not due to a stomach bug (as we were told at the time).
Mickey Harte put it down to "mental issues";the pressure placed upon him as a top player; his role as the GPA secretary and his impending marriage.
This was revealed in his autobiography "Harte - Presence is the only thing".
He has tried to dig himself out of it though:
http://www.ireland.com/sport/Harte_No_problem_Cavanagh/maxi/fast/news/irnews/58854
I would say Kavanagh is not too happy with Harte for putting this into the public domain (if it is true). I am also surprised at Harte for revealing soemthing like that in a book. Not like him at all.
I did think at the time it was bit suspect that Kavanagh cried off the team at the last minute like that.

useurename

it doesnt seem to be hartes style at all.this kind of stuff is usually kept behind closed doors yet it was a headline in last sundays newspaper.he must be trying to shift a few more books.cavanagh is class but it seemed strange that he would be so affected by personal issues seeing he was won so much so young and that he has so many teammates to lean on.hopefully he will be back to his best next year but i'd say he is fairly pissed with mickey harte for letting the country know he wasn't really sick before that match.i can imagine some armagh defenders shouting some amount of abuse into his head next may:cool:

Agus

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Cavanagh rejects 'pressure' claims

17 October 2009


Tyrone star Sean Cavanagh is on a collision course with Mickey Harte after dismissing the manager's claims that the reason he didn't start this year's All-Ireland semi-final against Cork was down to the pressures of being Footballer of the Year.




In an interview with Ulster's 'Gaelic Life' magazine, Cavanagh revealed that he told Harte on the morning of the match that he had been hit by a sudden bout of the 'flu and didn't feel up to playing.

Cavanagh said he did not get "a single minute" of sleep the night before the game due to the 'flu leaving him "zombified".

The Moy clubman managed to get some sleep in the three hours before a team meeting later that morning and was feeling better but before he could consult with Harte, was told by Tommy McGuigan that he would be starting instead of him.

"I got up at around 11.30am and went for the players' meeting" he explained.

"On the way I met Tommy McGuigan in the corridor and he told me that he was sorry to hear that I wasn't well, that he was starting for me that's how it was broken to me."

Explaining that he had felt fine until going to bed on the Saturday night, Cavanagh added: "When I went to bed things went downhill pretty quickly. I was having hot and cold flushes, really unsettled. I watched every minute pass by.

"When you lay there for that long, eight or nine hours zombified, you get really lonely and low. I was getting angry and frustrated, because I knew I wasn't going to be at full strength."

After discussing the situation with roommate Ryan Mellon, the 26-year-old decided to tell Harte what had happened. Cavanagh understood their discussion to have concluded with an opening for him still to play.

"I said that I had no problem playing the game but that I didn't feel 100 per cent and therefore wasn't going to be full strength. I told him I'd leave the decision completely up to him."

lukin

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http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=119194


Cavanagh rejects 'pressure' claims

17 October 2009


Tyrone star Sean Cavanagh is on a collision course with Mickey Harte after dismissing the manager's claims that the reason he didn't start this year's All-Ireland semi-final against Cork was down to the pressures of being Footballer of the Year.




In an interview with Ulster's 'Gaelic Life' magazine, Cavanagh revealed that he told Harte on the morning of the match that he had been hit by a sudden bout of the 'flu and didn't feel up to playing.

Cavanagh said he did not get "a single minute" of sleep the night before the game due to the 'flu leaving him "zombified".

The Moy clubman managed to get some sleep in the three hours before a team meeting later that morning and was feeling better but before he could consult with Harte, was told by Tommy McGuigan that he would be starting instead of him.

"I got up at around 11.30am and went for the players' meeting" he explained.

"On the way I met Tommy McGuigan in the corridor and he told me that he was sorry to hear that I wasn't well, that he was starting for me that's how it was broken to me."

Explaining that he had felt fine until going to bed on the Saturday night, Cavanagh added: "When I went to bed things went downhill pretty quickly. I was having hot and cold flushes, really unsettled. I watched every minute pass by.

"When you lay there for that long, eight or nine hours zombified, you get really lonely and low. I was getting angry and frustrated, because I knew I wasn't going to be at full strength."

After discussing the situation with roommate Ryan Mellon, the 26-year-old decided to tell Harte what had happened. Cavanagh understood their discussion to have concluded with an opening for him still to play.

"I said that I had no problem playing the game but that I didn't feel 100 per cent and therefore wasn't going to be full strength. I told him I'd leave the decision completely up to him."

Heh, Kavanagh's account of things is directly at odds with Mickey Harte's. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they meet next!