Niall Morgan has criticised Tyrone's decision to run the first round of their club championships this week.

Traditionally, the first round of the championship in the O'Neill County is deferred until August, but the move to squeeze the matches in this weekend has placed severe pressure on the Red Hands' county players, especially after the drawn and replayed Ulster SFC clashes with Down.

"There's so many of the boys, like Sean [Cavanagh] and Mattie [Donnelly] and Colm [Cavanagh], they've all played 70 minutes in the two games and they had to give their all because it's not like those games were dead and buried," the Tyrone goalie states in The Irish Independent.

"Now they're expected to go out this week and play the most important club game of their year. It's an issue for every club in Tyrone. It's not any way to come down from a county match, to go straight into a club training session the next day.

"Mattie Donnelly's club actually play on Thursday, that's no turnaround. They say they're doing it for the players but I'm yet to be asked, as a player, whether I wanted it and I don't think any other players were asked either.

"It's a thing the CCCC in Tyrone have come up with and they're going to stick to their guns, but I'm not overly happy with it and I don't think the majority of the players are either.

"If my club's beaten next Sunday you're talking three, four or five boys will go to America for the summer and where does that leave you for the league?

"You're sitting scrapping, trying to get players. There's fellas working in England, there's players gone to America already, the last thing we need is to encourage them to go." Tweet

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