Garbiel Bannigan remains hopeful that Monaghan’s ‘staggering’ injury situation will improve between now and the start of the Ulster SFC.

The Farney County suffered a number of retirements during the off-season, while matters have since been compounded by a lengthy injury list that has undoubtedly contributed to their poor run in the Allianz Football League and left them on the brink of a quick return to Division 2.

"We're going through a very difficult phase at the moment," the Monaghan manager told RTÉ after his side were handed their fifth straight defeat by Kerry last Sunday.

"There were seven of the starting 15 [today] who didn't play in the National League for Monaghan before this year. And there was an eighth in Aaron Carey who didn't play until the final last year.

"So there were eight of the starting 15 who didn't play in the Division 2 league games last year. And of the 11 men we had on the bench today, only one of them had any experience with Monaghan prior to this year and that was Jack McCarron.

"So those numbers are staggering. We have 11 key men out injured at the moment. Hopefully, we're going to get most of them back over the next six, seven weeks for the championship."

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