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Replying To MonaghanMan44life: "How is a 17 year old physically out performing our senior players? I'd hope to god the county board are asking some questions around this team's preparation. The most un-Monaghan team I've ever seen" Then you haven't been around for long, lad. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 953 - 23/02/2026 03:10:35 2657990 Link
Would David McCague come in and manage the team? Might get a kick out of them before Cavan farneygael3 (Monaghan) - Posts: 536 - 23/02/2026 06:01:41 2657991 Link
Replying To farneygael3: "Would David McCague come in and manage the team? Might get a kick out of them before Cavan" Managing a team that my granny could win 3 championships with given the dip into the transfer market and huge resources hardly qualifies him to take the senior Monaghan gig… mick2007 (Monaghan) - Posts: 651 - 23/02/2026 10:54:42 2658041 Link
Malachy O Rourke be free this summer by looks of things. Just saying ! seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1951 - 23/02/2026 10:59:14 2658042 Link
Replying To mick2007: "Sobering day at the office, we can make all the excuses we want… apart from the obvious, the gulf in conditioning and running power was stark, years behind… were trudging along ground coming out of defence and midfield while the likes of Donegal and Armagh are gliding over it…ponderous and lateral passing on the ball isn't helping our inside line, you would want the patience of a saint in there waiting on the ball to come in… I do feel sorry for the younger lads on the team.. div 1 is a tough place and coming into a sinking ship is tough…we need to get behind these lads and keep encouraging and hope for better days ahead starting with the Cavan game..the standard of club football is average at the minute so it's no huge surprise that's we're on a spiral…" Yet 2/3 County Champions were in Ulster Finals? How is that average? ConyersHill04 (Monaghan) - Posts: 44 - 23/02/2026 11:13:09 2658052 Link
Replying To seanie08: "Malachy O Rourke be free this summer by looks of things. Just saying !" What's the view on the current lad? He was around a few clubs in Dublin that I'm familiar with and never won a tap so I'm curious why he got the job. Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 1841 - 23/02/2026 11:13:20 2658053 Link
Confidence or lack of it has a hell of an impact. It was great last year, wasn't it? Confidence is on the floor at the moment. I think Alex Ferguson once said something to the effect if things start to go wrong, you either change the manager or change the squad. The former won't happen this year, the latter is something Monaghan with current injury crises are severely constrained by. It "might" get better come championship time in terms of who is available, but confidence is completely shot. Concentration levels have dropped in the squad: unforced errors, technical fouls are the hall marks of this. I had accepted relegation a couple of weeks ago but I was hoping Monaghan would go down fighting with pride intact. The 2nd half capitulation against Mayo really was Monaghan throwing in the towel which is so unlike Monaghan. When I seen the named subs bench on Friday evening (before the pre match late changes), if you took McCarron out of it, there was maybe 10 starts for Monaghan in league and championship between all the subs. That kind of inexperience is going to show in Div 1. This year's form has a lot of parallels with 2024 season and also with Eamon McEneaney's last tenure in charge. Monaghan have lost a lot of long term key players over the past 4 years - this was always going to happen to Monaghan given the aging profile of the squad. It needed a lot of youth to be introduced which is a happening now. It'll take another year of two for the transition to stablise and I believe it will. Div 1 is a real eye opener for the new players in the panel - the S&C required is way above Div 2 standards. That takes 2 to 3 years to be acclimatised to. sleater (Monaghan) - Posts: 193 - 23/02/2026 11:14:48 2658056 Link
If anything it highlights how poor our underage squads were when you see what was starting and bench. So much for the "elite academy" it was always sold as. Hopefully O Boyle and Buggy can produce some talent this year. Who is the development squads managers this year? farneygael3 (Monaghan) - Posts: 536 - 23/02/2026 12:04:01 2658082 Link
Replying To ConyersHill04: "Yet 2/3 County Champions were in Ulster Finals? How is that average?" I meant as a collective it's average…29 clubs and a number of them are poor… Emyvale were an "intermediate" team playing junior football and won the double at a canter missing the likes of Hamill, Ryan McA, Gallagher along with a number of other lads for most of the season, the quality in junior as a whole was poor.. it was a given that they would be at the buiness end of ulster junior… Scotstown won the senior champ without 2 top county players in o Toole and McCarthy which speaks volumes about the challengers…they put out a B team throughout the league and still made a league final… so them wining ulster dosent make the standard in club football in Monaghan great…. mick2007 (Monaghan) - Posts: 651 - 23/02/2026 12:32:30 2658092 Link
Replying To MonaghanMan44life: "Your not concerned about a 19 point hammering?" No defeat is nice but I remember Monaghan gloating about beating Dublin in the League. I would be more concerned about a result like that in the championship. Monaghan is going through a transition and if you add in all the injuries I am not surprised at the result. I think trying to win Ulster should be our goal this season ( a tall ask given the transitional nature of the team at the moment). It's hard to believe that despite all the talk about Monaghan it is 2015 since the Anglo celt cup resided in Monaghan . Bernardo (Monaghan) - Posts: 616 - 23/02/2026 13:23:20 2658124 Link
Replying To Monaghangaaman: "Considering the county team are going so bad, I think it's time we just focus back onto the club scene. I'll start with junior- oram are a serious side, having impressed in some recent challenges. Great management team all round. Intermediate- strong feeling Killanny will amends their bottle job last year, after all only had to turn up for the final. Good management team appointed full of knowledge. Senior- hard to see by scotstown after their impressive Ulster triumph. If I was to go for someone else I would go for Blayney. Having two county men in Hughes and hanratty coming back will just add to their strength." And ill start with Oram, a serious side in what universe? How many of their players would start in the best junior team never mind what managers they have, too much focus on management if you havnt the players it simply wont matter, The bog-men are the same all big chat about big management set ups and when it comes down to the business end of the year theyll be long gone because they do not have the players!, Blaney wont get near the parish league either however intermidiate could be up for grabs by 4/5 teams. Clubman57 (Monaghan) - Posts: 34 - 23/02/2026 14:21:04 2658148 Link
Replying To farneygael3: "If anything it highlights how poor our underage squads were when you see what was starting and bench. So much for the "elite academy" it was always sold as. Hopefully O Boyle and Buggy can produce some talent this year. Who is the development squads managers this year?" Just on that, have we seen our full County is there any names out there that Gabriel hasn't seen or found, Surely based off the performances we are missing in most places, when Monaghan are at the peak of our powers we squeeze every last bit of talent out from 1-20 on the panel, from this year alone you feel as if we genuinely don't have the players especially on the bench. so the question is where can this be fixed?, is there players that haven't been found or should we bank on a few u20 lads to come in next year. Clubman57 (Monaghan) - Posts: 34 - 23/02/2026 14:26:13 2658152 Link
Replying To ConyersHill04: "Yet 2/3 County Champions were in Ulster Finals? How is that average?" The standard of club football is the worst it's been in 20 years. God almighty could be the county manager and he wouldn't have a hope. I keep posting and pointing out here what I'm seeing at club level and it's grim. Reserve football is dead, A team league football is dead and the championship is for most a 3-5 game season. So for most young footballers coming through there's at best 3-4 games played in anger a year. Looking at the championship games this few years and most clubs are still looking to players who were at their peak 12 years ago.. Latton, Ballybay, Maghercloone, Harps, Clontibret, Doohamlet were all looking to men Nearly 40 years old to for answers. Want another symptom of Monaghan's decline? No Dublin college has a player from Monaghan on their Sigerson cup panel - jordanstown has 4 and 3 are from Truagh. Your clubs that used to be the backbone of the county are no longer providing and as we've seen once the Scotstown lads are taken out of the mix you're getting thumped by 15 points. The main Scotstown lads aren't getting any younger either… My best guess is the biggest issue currently facing Monaghan football is that every competition outside of the Senior, Intermediate and Junior championship's has melted away to irrelevance and young lads coming through are getting no chance to develop. If cubs aren't on a development squad they've no hope. Jjoniel79 (Monaghan) - Posts: 260 - 23/02/2026 16:12:01 2658195 Link
Not the case at all... the biggest problem with county football is with the clubs and their ignorance to develop and encourage county football. Look at the Killany, Donaghmoyne, Corduff, Maraghcloone, Carrick, Toome, Blackhill area. Utter disgrace that this total area accounts for 1/2 starters on a county team. What has went wrong here. Thank God scotstown are producing and continue to produce because god knows where we would be without them. monaghanmad (Monaghan) - Posts: 460 - 23/02/2026 16:48:28 2658212 Link