Saffron Scullion calls time: "I've done what I can"
July 07, 2015
Antrim's Tony Scullion is tackled by St Mary's Ryan Johnston. INPHO
Antrim stalwart Tony Scullion has retired from intercounty football.
The 32-year-old lined out at centre half back against Fermanagh in Sunday's SF Qualifier defeat at Enniskillen and has decided not to make himself available for intercounty duty again.
"I don't think there'll be any reflection, I've reflected all year," the Cargin clubman notes in The Irish News. "It's time for somebody else to step up to the plate. I've done what I can.
"I'll go back to the club now. You have to remember the club too because that's where you start and that's where you finish. Any power you've left in your legs, you're better putting it into the club.
"There are intercounty players that play on and hang on. At the end of the day, you have to give your club something back.
"For any young boy, your ambition is to play for your county and I've been there and done an awful lot of stuff with the county. The people I've met along the road - that you wouldn't have met if I hadn't played for Antrim - are important. You have to reflect on things like that and there's no point in thinking about the games you lose."
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