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McCartan: No disagreement with Dan
Down senior football manager James McCartan has insisted that there is no problem between himself and Dan Gordon after the midfielder opted to withdraw from the Mourne County panel.
According to reports, Gordon informed McCartan late last week that he would be withdrawing from the squad for an indefinite period of time due to a lack of hunger for the game and a loss in his own personal form.
And McCartan has declared that that is the case and that there was no disharmony between the two over any of the management methods the new boss has brought in since he took the helm late last year.
"Dan said he hadn't got the hunger for it and felt that he wasn't playing well, " McCartan was quoted as saying by hoganstand. com.
"His club got relegated; he wasn't enjoying his football. He assured me that it was nothing to do with the present management, which I was fairly confident of anyway.
"I used to play with Dan. (Mourne County coach) Paddy Tally had him at St Mary's. He assured me that there was nothing that we were doing wrong and that it was a hunger issue.
"He felt he was selling the team short by turning up and not producing the goods. That's what he told me and I take it at face value.
"Maybe at some stage in the future I will have an argument with a player and I'll try and hide it, but on this occasion there was no argument with Dan."
McCartan is hopeful that the midfielder will return to his panel sooner rather than later.
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