A point down as the clock ticked into the red at the end of the first half in Sunday's Ulster final, Down had a glorious chance to raise the green flag in Clones.
After Darren O'Hagan hit the post with an attempted point, the ball founds its way to Darragh O'Hanlon with just Tyrone keeper Niall Morgan between him and the goal.
Rather than pass the ball into the net as Colm Cooper had suggested at half time, Down's top scorer in the league and championship screwed the ball wide off his right boot.
As O'Hanlon knelt on the ground, hands looking to bury his head into the ground, Tyrone keeper Niall Morgan stepped over the have a few words. On the television coverage, those words appeared to be aggressive.
Speaking on Independent.ie's The Thrown-In podcast, former Dublin footballer Alan Brogan took Morgan to task over his behaviour.
The three-time All-Ireland winner suggested that if Morgan wishes to emulate Stephen Cluxton - something he has talked about in the past - he will have to eliminate such conduct from his game.
The thing about Niall Morgan is that he's talked about Stephen Cluxton over the last couple of years as the guy who he aspires to be.
In fairness to Niall Morgan, he's a very good goalkeeper, he's a very good place kicker, he's very strong on his kickout, but that sort of behaviour is not what you see from Stephen Cluxton and there's a reason for that - it's that Stephen wants to be emotionless all the time.
Because he knows his job is so important with the kickouts, in the same way Niall Morgan's is for Tyrone, and when you're getting involved in that sort of stuff it's distracting your mind from what you should be doing.
He wants to get his kickout in for or five seconds, it took him a couple of seconds to do that so he's affecting what his team are trying to do.
I was surprised at this stage to see him engaging in that sort of stuff, and sometimes it goes on around the field, but for Niall Morgan to be doing it is silly.
Earlier this week on Twitter, following some criticism, Niall Morgan had his say on what had happened.
Thanks Sean. There's nothing abusive or threatening about what I said. It was fine for the same player to do it against Monaghan...
— Niall Morgan (@niallmorgan01) July 17, 2017
Monaghan. Umpires heard it and discussed it with ref at half time. They said it didn't warrant any further discussion! No malice at all!
— Niall Morgan (@niallmorgan01) July 17, 2017
Doesn't look good no but would hardly make me a coward at the same time? And trust me it wasn't the only thing said on the field! Cheers??
— Niall Morgan (@niallmorgan01) July 17, 2017
