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Replying To Eddie the Exile: "A feature of Monaghan's best campaigns was that the best players in the county were available for selection. It is fair to say that is has not been the case in recent seasons. Not blaming management entirely for the situation, but certainly it is their job to rectify." Seemingly there is a new lead physio the past 3-4 years which just so happens to marry up with the increase in injuries/re injury.. Also hearing a fair few of the players are using outside physios as they are not happy with the quality of service. MonaghanMan44life (Monaghan) - Posts: 226 - 03/07/2026 12:43:39 2683904 Link
Replying To monaghanmad: "And don't name mc bennet, Loughran, Jones. They all walked away mid season for the county. Men that walk away in the middle of championship are of no addition to a county team." These men walked away because they were completely shafted, not being let play with their clubs then being promised and not getting minutes with county at the weekend. Players want to play games and there's only so long men will be strung along before they break. Monaghanmad123 (Monaghan) - Posts: 6 - 03/07/2026 14:13:36 2683936 Link
Replying To MonaghanMan44life: "The club season is only starting for 90% of the senior clubs in Monaghan. Congratulations on being ordinary while everyone else was playing preseason games. I'd hazard a bet Blayney doesn't win a single championship game.." Seems to be a few accounts on here awful bitter towards blayney. Wonder why that is Monaghan_football (Monaghan) - Posts: 149 - 03/07/2026 14:14:46 2683937 Link
Replying To Monaghanmad123: "These men walked away because they were completely shafted, not being let play with their clubs then being promised and not getting minutes with county at the weekend. Players want to play games and there's only so long men will be strung along before they break." Think there's a bit of truth in that all right lads just want to play ball but in monaghan we have dont want to drop the tried and tested, oh we need to get to div 1 div1 div1 look at our neighbours last Sunday no 6 8 9 10 12 all 6 ft 3 plus we're they all superstars when they were blooded but there not obsessed with div 1 we in monaghan are looking at small 5 v 5 pod matches in cloghan where the wee lad looks unreal turning ball over and winning dirty ball on the ground but take them up the road and they look like tadpoles in the sea what a big lad gives you in croker is a platform to win a championship because theres where its won in the air not 5 v 5 in cloghan a big lad doesn't shine in training pods or winning dirty ball on the ground but when it comes to a 50k plus match there's only 1 winner on kickouts all I know is were not progressing 3 options this year for midfield and 2 got injured unlucky some will say for me no there should have been 4 to 5 midfielders playing at 8 9 10 12 all last year and this year and in the event of an injury they drop in to 8 or 9 Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 204 - 03/07/2026 15:34:41 2683956 Link
Replying To Monaghan_football: "Seems to be a few accounts on here awful bitter towards blayney. Wonder why that is" Never back against a team Malone is over. Long summer yet farneygael3 (Monaghan) - Posts: 743 - 03/07/2026 16:10:21 2683976 Link
Replying To Farneyblueandwhite: "Think there's a bit of truth in that all right lads just want to play ball but in monaghan we have dont want to drop the tried and tested, oh we need to get to div 1 div1 div1 look at our neighbours last Sunday no 6 8 9 10 12 all 6 ft 3 plus we're they all superstars when they were blooded but there not obsessed with div 1 we in monaghan are looking at small 5 v 5 pod matches in cloghan where the wee lad looks unreal turning ball over and winning dirty ball on the ground but take them up the road and they look like tadpoles in the sea what a big lad gives you in croker is a platform to win a championship because theres where its won in the air not 5 v 5 in cloghan a big lad doesn't shine in training pods or winning dirty ball on the ground but when it comes to a 50k plus match there's only 1 winner on kickouts all I know is were not progressing 3 options this year for midfield and 2 got injured unlucky some will say for me no there should have been 4 to 5 midfielders playing at 8 9 10 12 all last year and this year and in the event of an injury they drop in to 8 or 9" Agree with a lot of what said there but we have to realise that we can only play 2 men in the middle of the field. The fact is boys named above that wont commit and wont sit and wait their chance and be team players. If men feel that playing a few mickey mouse club league games as talked about above instead of staying at it and giving their shoulder to the wheel for their county. Its crazy stuff. monaghanmad (Monaghan) - Posts: 517 - 03/07/2026 16:27:10 2683986 Link
Replying To MonaghanMan44life: "Seemingly there is a new lead physio the past 3-4 years which just so happens to marry up with the increase in injuries/re injury.. Also hearing a fair few of the players are using outside physios as they are not happy with the quality of service." Sounds like a disgruntled past player speaking here..... There is a significant number of other individuals responsible and direct/indirect factors at play than the 'physio' in player welfare and availability. But yeah, Monaghan are the only team in the country with injuries atm...... Who were we missing Sunday? - Bobby McCaul - unfortunate 2nd ACL - non-contact injury - Karl Gallagher - presumably ankle? - Rory - ? hamstring/dead leg. - Louis Kelly Find me another team in the country with less players unavailable? The problem is, we don't have the strength in depth to handle missing Rory/Karl. eirekeeper (Monaghan) - Posts: 135 - 03/07/2026 23:33:49 2684074 Link
Replying To eirekeeper: "Sounds like a disgruntled past player speaking here..... There is a significant number of other individuals responsible and direct/indirect factors at play than the 'physio' in player welfare and availability. But yeah, Monaghan are the only team in the country with injuries atm...... Who were we missing Sunday? - Bobby McCaul - unfortunate 2nd ACL - non-contact injury - Karl Gallagher - presumably ankle? - Rory - ? hamstring/dead leg. - Louis Kelly Find me another team in the country with less players unavailable? The problem is, we don't have the strength in depth to handle missing Rory/Karl." And if that's the case what about last year v donegal in q final 7 up at half time ,donegal push up and score 1 10 without reply 13 point turn around in 20 minutes now on the other hand we were 11 down against derry on comes a midfielder Bobby mccaul starts to cause a bit of havoc with his height because tgey had to drop glass back to mark him and we win that's the value of a bit of height and muscle and we just haven't enough of them on the field why because they there not '#COMMITED# mmm train them up and let them play study our next door neighbours options round the middle, that's the platform 7 options to play in 2 positions at 8 and 9 and they can accommodate them and play them and keep them.happy were a small county but we leave ourselves smaller with binning players big lads good lads the energy nowadays that a team gets from winning possession in the middle is massive youŕ never bet never Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 204 - 04/07/2026 12:59:04 2684124 Link
Replying To Farneyblueandwhite: "And if that's the case what about last year v donegal in q final 7 up at half time ,donegal push up and score 1 10 without reply 13 point turn around in 20 minutes now on the other hand we were 11 down against derry on comes a midfielder Bobby mccaul starts to cause a bit of havoc with his height because tgey had to drop glass back to mark him and we win that's the value of a bit of height and muscle and we just haven't enough of them on the field why because they there not '#COMMITED# mmm train them up and let them play study our next door neighbours options round the middle, that's the platform 7 options to play in 2 positions at 8 and 9 and they can accommodate them and play them and keep them.happy were a small county but we leave ourselves smaller with binning players big lads good lads the energy nowadays that a team gets from winning possession in the middle is massive youŕ never bet never" Let me know who are the big men who are commited and have been binned. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1150 - 04/07/2026 14:10:55 2684139 Link
Replying To Farneyblueandwhite: "Think there's a bit of truth in that all right lads just want to play ball but in monaghan we have dont want to drop the tried and tested, oh we need to get to div 1 div1 div1 look at our neighbours last Sunday no 6 8 9 10 12 all 6 ft 3 plus we're they all superstars when they were blooded but there not obsessed with div 1 we in monaghan are looking at small 5 v 5 pod matches in cloghan where the wee lad looks unreal turning ball over and winning dirty ball on the ground but take them up the road and they look like tadpoles in the sea what a big lad gives you in croker is a platform to win a championship because theres where its won in the air not 5 v 5 in cloghan a big lad doesn't shine in training pods or winning dirty ball on the ground but when it comes to a 50k plus match there's only 1 winner on kickouts all I know is were not progressing 3 options this year for midfield and 2 got injured unlucky some will say for me no there should have been 4 to 5 midfielders playing at 8 9 10 12 all last year and this year and in the event of an injury they drop in to 8 or 9" Agreed. Plus bringing Woods out to middle. Should have been done on Sunday wilh loss of Gallagher. Pity because he'd be loss a FF. But under new kick out rules game has changed dramatically.Need 4 big guys across middle now. We can play others at FF by overloading on one side & kick passing to FF on other side (as we did this season successfully). Shelbourne1 (Monaghan) - Posts: 458 - 04/07/2026 14:16:27 2684141 Link
Replying To eirekeeper: "Sounds like a disgruntled past player speaking here..... There is a significant number of other individuals responsible and direct/indirect factors at play than the 'physio' in player welfare and availability. But yeah, Monaghan are the only team in the country with injuries atm...... Who were we missing Sunday? - Bobby McCaul - unfortunate 2nd ACL - non-contact injury - Karl Gallagher - presumably ankle? - Rory - ? hamstring/dead leg. - Louis Kelly Find me another team in the country with less players unavailable? The problem is, we don't have the strength in depth to handle missing Rory/Karl." Also michael Hamill ....remember him, lightening pace and would be a starter/impact player. Shelbourne1 (Monaghan) - Posts: 458 - 04/07/2026 14:19:13 2684143 Link
Replying To ORIELMAN85: "Let me know who are the big men who are commited and have been binned." It's not so much about naming names it's about a shift in mindset from constantly playing wee lads to bigger lads open your eyes 1 midfielder last Sunday , in a county where you have possibly 40 lads that can play county football why would you go to croke park with 1 lad over 6ft change of mindset badly needed 1 10 without reply last year v donegal 80% loss in midfield last Sunday and we all want to lean on the crutch of injuries, in a crunch match over 50k supporters push up on us and it's over no hiding places in croke Park but to think there not 5 to 7 big lads in the county is just farcical train the wee bucks till the cows come home same outcome handy wee team but ...... Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 204 - 04/07/2026 17:04:32 2684174 Link
3 changes that possibly could transform monaghans chances of getting serious progress of winning in croke Park in championship - all ireland appearance 1 Mindset change towards bigger players ( platform) 2 All ireland winner on the sideline( mentality) 3 stop the obsession with playing div 1 winter league football ( burnout come summer ) This is not having a go at any individual it's about a mindset change from county board down Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 204 - 04/07/2026 17:34:25 2684184 Link
Replying To Farneyblueandwhite: "It's not so much about naming names it's about a shift in mindset from constantly playing wee lads to bigger lads open your eyes 1 midfielder last Sunday , in a county where you have possibly 40 lads that can play county football why would you go to croke park with 1 lad over 6ft change of mindset badly needed 1 10 without reply last year v donegal 80% loss in midfield last Sunday and we all want to lean on the crutch of injuries, in a crunch match over 50k supporters push up on us and it's over no hiding places in croke Park but to think there not 5 to 7 big lads in the county is just farcical train the wee bucks till the cows come home same outcome handy wee team but ......" You're saying theres 40 lads, but you can't name one? eirekeeper (Monaghan) - Posts: 135 - 04/07/2026 21:19:15 2684240 Link
Replying To eirekeeper: "You're saying theres 40 lads, but you can't name one?" Sure we will stick with 1 midfielder bring on 2027 Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 204 - 04/07/2026 22:12:12 2684246 Link