It may not yet have reached the 2013 heights of Eamonn O'Hara vs Kevin Walsh, yet, Sean Cavanagh is attracting plenty of attention - both good and bad - for his criticism of Tyrone's Mickey Harte.
Having called a halt to his inter-county football career last year, Cavanagh enjoyed tremendous success under Harte's management; winning three All-Ireland titles in the process.
Yet, after only recently leaving the Tyrone panel, some are curious why the Moy man didn't raise his concerns with Harte whilst still an active member of the panel.
Although another vocal critic of Harte, Joe Brolly, would argue that the Tyrone manager's autocratic approach to inter-county management doesn't encourage must discussion, Gavin Devlin, Harte's assistant and a former teammate of Cavanagh, has criticised The Sunday Game panelist for not following the examples of his predecessors:
I know Sean was the captain of our team for a number of years. I didn’t see myself as a great player but I played in a number of successful teams.
Any team that I was ever involved in always had great captains and anyone of those captains - whether it be Brian Dooher, Peter Canavan or Cormac McAnallen - they would have said something if they felt something wasn’t right.
Having worked alongside Cavanagh in one capacity or another for many years, Devlin, speaking to The Irish News, revealed that across "a number of conversations with Sean ... he never mentioned anything about styles of play or what we should and shouldn't do."
Dismayed with Cavanagh's tenacity to mention such things in an RTÉ studio instead, Devlin ultimately feels that Cavanagh lacked an important ingredient present in some of those vaunted figures who have captained Tyrone.
