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COLM SHALVEY TALKING POINTS As Monaghan manager Vinnie Corey said after Sunday’s game: “we’re not in a position to turn our noses up at any win”. After all of 140 days since Monaghan made a stunning start to the league by turning Dublin over at Croke Park, they finally got back to winning ways despite a fairly patchy performance against a Meath side who exited the championship with four consecutive losses. A draw with Louth had stopped the rot for Monaghan, who started full of purpose on Sunday, racing into a ...
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COLM SHALVEYTALKING POINTS Monaghan supporters who made the long journey south would have hoped to have seen added freshness and hunger to their team’s performance, but there was little of that to be seen in a one-sided first half where Kerry set the terms of engagement. Monaghan were punished time and again for cheap turnovers as Kerry brought real intensity to their tackling, inviting opponents to run down blind alleys into heavy traffic. Monaghan coughed possession up 11 times during the first half, with Kerry turning many of those errors into ...
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COLM SHALVEY TALKING POINTS Monaghan really needed to build up a considerable lead in the first half, but a hangover from the losing run in the league may have contributed to a lack of confidence at times on Sunday. Monaghan got some joy from pressing the Cavan kick-out, but save for a quick one-two of points from Conor McManus and Jack McCarron towards the half-hour mark, they were unable to turn that into any sustained momentum. The hosts looked to have timed their run well when Michael Hamill’s debut goal was ...
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COLM SHALVEY TALKING POINTS No strangers to a relegation battle in their ten-year stint in Division One of the Allianz NFL, Monaghan find themselves in familiar territory with just over half of the current campaign gone. The openingnight fireworks at Croke Park feel like quite a while ago now, given the downturn in results and form since then, with Monaghan’s score difference taking a bit of a battering over the course of three straight defeats. While some teams have managed to step up their performance levels in recent weeks – exhibit ...
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COLM SHALVEYTALKING POINTS In a game where both sides managed impressive shot conversion rates of over 80%, it was Derry’s ability to eke out the bulk of the scoring chances (25 to 16) that made the difference. Like in other recent meetings of these teams, with the exception of their championship groupstage clash at Celtic Park last year, Derry made hay from counter-attacks, picking Monaghan off on the break for a series of scores, including their second-half goals from Pádraig McGrogan and Conor Doherty. They joined fellow defender Conor McCluskey in ...
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COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Monaghan hadn’t won a league or championship game minus both Conor McManus and Darren Hughes since 2013, while you had to go back even further to February 2006 (v Dublin at Parnell Park, as it happens) for the county’s last top-flight victory without their two most-experienced campaigners. In their absence, some new leaders stepped up alongside captain Kieran Duffy, including Mícheál Bannigan, Killian Lavelle, Gary Mohan and Man of the Match Stephen O’Hanlon. Bannigan has already racked up 65 appearances and established himself as vice-captain, while O’Hanlon’s standing ...
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COLM SHALVEY REPORTS Emyvale and Monaghan star Karl Gallagher has signed a two-year deal with AFL club Adelaide Crows. The 21-year-old has signed as a rookie with the Crows, having been on the radar Down Under since 2019 when he was a standout at an AFL Combine testing day in Ireland, before the pandemic hit. Gallagher won back-to-back Ulster MFC titles with Monaghan in 2018 and 2019, when he was one of three players to start the provincial finals in both years, being named Man of the Match after a memorable ...
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MAITIU MONAGHAN The Northern Standard Newspaper/ Monaghan GAA Awards Night will take place this Saturday in the Four Seasons Hotel, Monaghan, when the 2023 Award winners will receive their rewards as recognition for all their hard work and efforts last year. The Club of the Year award was won by Scotstown GAA after a remarkable season for the club across all levels. The club reclaimed the Senior Football Championship with a three-point win over Inniskeen and went on to reach the Ulster Championship final after enthralling victories against Kilcoo and Trillick. ...
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MAITIU MONAGHAN The 2023 Northern Standard/Monaghan GAA award winners have been announced, with representatives from 18 different clubs picking up awards in what has been an incredibly successful season for Monaghan GAA. Scotstown GAA dominated the Senior Football Award’s, with Rory Beggan being named Club Senior Footballer of the Year, while Conor McCarthy was awarded the Inter-County Footballer of the Year. Elsewhere, Killanny’s Ronan Grimes was named the Intermediate Footballer of the Year after a great season that seen Killanny claim a shock Intermediate Championship, and Phillip Donnelly was awarded Junior ...