Monaghan GAA Thread

Really looking forward to 2 cracking games tomorrow. Monaghan really should be winning, and a loss would be a serious setback. Also Tyrone a bit of a bogey team for Monaghan and find themselves in the quarters under the radar . Monaghan by 2.

Fancy Mayo tomorrow also. Think they will have too much firepower for Donegal.

Jayop wrote: »

Hard luck lads.

Still Ulster champs is probably more than we'll end up with this year.

Ha! The same thing some raging Monaghan fan told me before he left the stands early. Sore, sore losers

No one cares about provincial championships. Any proper team would rather be in the AI semis.

Happyman42 wrote: »

I have always respected those that are better. Although a bitter pill, I respected Dublin when they taught us a lesson and when Kerry lorded it over us.
But, I cannot respect that Tyrone team, for the first time in my life I will not be supporting an Ulster team in the semis.

They had us beaten, fair enough, but they cynically closed down any chance of a game of football in the last quarter. The 'dive' being the most outrageous example.

I've lost any remaining respect I had for Tyrone today. Absolutely disgusted with what I seen.

tapfit2004 wrote: »

Mickey Harte said in the interview afterwards that Tyrone did everything they could within the rules to win the match.

If what went on in the last 20 minutes is in the rules then we need new rules.

From a dubs supporter.

Far too many stoppages to get any momentum for Monaghan today, but Tyrone have the experience of knowing what they can get away with. The feigning of injuries and laying down on the ground needs to be eradicated perhaps by stopping the clock.

physioman wrote: »

Just back from match. Very disappointing from Monaghan. Didn't threaten at all. Thought we had a great defence in the past but in fairness Tyrone penetrated it well. Where was our sweeper system?Missed some easy scores in 1st half which were costly. Tyrone had the better pace over all. Was on the hill for the game. I must say Tyrone supporters are the worst shower of supporters I have met. I supported yee in 2003, 2005, 2008 but I'm sad to say I'll be shouting for Kerry in the semi final.

So why exactly are Tyrone supporters so bad? They are louder than others but I've never seen them create any bother and I've been going to games since I was a kid. Unless you are referring to my comments in which I was being defensive towards unnecessary hatred (in my mind) against Tyrone. I never heard any complaining from neutrals or Monaghan fans about how Tyrone were playing in Croke Park today, so coming here and reading all this was a surprise.

First things first, the better side won on the day. I was saying all week that a kick of a ball would be the difference but Monaghan were flattered by the result. Tyrone got through our blanket defence with ease in the first half and we were lucky to be only 2 points behind at half time. There has been people on bemoaning the fact that we didn't take more shots from distance and we probably should have but for the only reason being that we had absolutely no other option. We had no penetration and fell for the 3 mistakes we made 2 years ago. We kick passed too much into Kieran Hughes whose marker broke the ball and Tyrone collected easy possession. We allowed Tyrone too many easy kick outs by failing to push up and we played our second sweeper too deep against a team that rarely kicks into their full forward line.
Every thing was going well for Monaghan in terms of things outside their control. Joe McMahon going off was a boost, the black card for the Tyrone player was a joke, I couldn't believe that decision. And Sean Cavanagh had a yellow card by half time which would mean he couldn't play the same role in the 2nd half.
The sad thing is that this defeat was more emphatic (not just on the scoreboard) than 2 years ago so where are we going? I'd say Paul, Dick and Owen are definitely going to retire. Maybe Vinny too.
But you have to give credit to Mickey Harte. He got it tactically right again. There's rumours that the powers that be in Tyrone want rid of him, they'll have some job getting that done now.
In relation to the diving, it was an absolute disgrace and Marty Duffy (who had an ok game) is going to have to have a look at the umpires he is bringing to games. For a player to go down in the manner McCann did it would have to have been an absolute haymaker of a thump and they don't happen anymore because players are too cute.I'm not sure the GAA have a rule about bringing the game into disrepute but if they do they should be using it here.
Also we need to toughen the black card laws when a game enters the last 10 minutes.
But, the best team won and with the way Ulster is shaping, Tyrone could be the team for a couple of years.

How ya think we will fare this year people .any new faces

Good crowd from monaghan alright. Disappointing result though. Cork started well and had their spare man around the middle winning all their kick outs. Once malachy sorted that monaghan gathered a bit of momentum. Good opportunist goal and excellent point from the right from conor mcmanus.

Unfortunately i don't think we have learnt much from last year. Still an overreliance on mcmanus, lots of kickable scoring opportunities but no other forward taking them on. Not sure why this is but maybe the game plan. It needs to be tweaked. Surely the other forwards should be practising kicking in training.
Midfield poor today.
Surprisingly conor mcmanus missed alot of kickable frees. The majority of them were from the 45 so maybe its just outside his range. Need to decide that rory beggan should take all the frees from 38m plus and work on that.

Going to be difficult to see where we go from here. We can compete with the best but find it difficult to beat countrys top 5. Kerry next in clones so we need the 2 points