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Replying To Farney2022:  "Full round of club league tomorrow, coming to the business end of the leagues, few teams still unbeaten in each of the divisions and going well"
Latton have had a great start to the year and without county men for a few rounds as well, very impressive. I expect them to make a big push this year. Corduff have been a big disappointment so far but still expect them to have a big say.

Biggest disappointment has been Blayney in Intermediate. What's gone wrong with them? Probably too good to go Junior but nowhere near winning an Intermediate. I seen Tyholland conceded to Truagh last week, are they throwing in the towel already? I know they were going to be up against it this year in Intermediate but not a great sign at this early stage.

Aghabog have made an impressive start to the year. My blade does the post down there reckons there's big work being put in.

Monaghansclown (Monaghan) - Posts: 175 - 13/06/2024 19:30:40    2551279

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Replying To drumalee11:  "Interesting discussion lads.

Leitrim is essentially two counties in one also.

You can't get from North Leitrim to South Leitrim without entering Cavan or Roscommon.

I would say Donegal and Leitrim is bound to be up there of bordering counties which are culturally very different.

Same for Leitrim and Fermanagh.

Galway Tipperary in some ways. Although South Galway is nearly more culturally linked to Munster than Connacht due to the hurling links but Galway people may correct me on this.

Tipperary and its 8 bordering counties essentially covers the hurling stronghold of Ireland. With the exception of Wexford. Everywhere else hurling plays second fiddle to Football.

Tipperary, Cork, Waterford, Clare, Limerick, Galway, Offaly, Laois and Kilkenny"
You can't get from North Leitrim to South Leitrim without entering Cavan or Roscommon.

Well that's a new one on me, surely there must be small roads connecting along the east side of lough Allen?

Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2859 - 13/06/2024 20:26:28    2551289

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Replying To Monaghansclown:  "Latton have had a great start to the year and without county men for a few rounds as well, very impressive. I expect them to make a big push this year. Corduff have been a big disappointment so far but still expect them to have a big say.

Biggest disappointment has been Blayney in Intermediate. What's gone wrong with them? Probably too good to go Junior but nowhere near winning an Intermediate. I seen Tyholland conceded to Truagh last week, are they throwing in the towel already? I know they were going to be up against it this year in Intermediate but not a great sign at this early stage.

Aghabog have made an impressive start to the year. My blade does the post down there reckons there's big work being put in."
Would be just awesome to see Aghabog getting some silverware this year, although I can't see past Toome in Junior. Delighted also to see Rockcorry getting a few wins after the year they had last year.
Latton doing well in senior and are helped massively by the return of Stephen McCabe. Although, I still feel that they are levels below Scotstown (obviously) and Inniskeen. Scostown are undefeated at the top of the league and I don't think they've played a single game with even half of their strongest team, genuinely.
Castleblayney are a mind boggling case. How can a club with such history, and such a big population to pick from, be so bad?

HB245 (Monaghan) - Posts: 209 - 13/06/2024 21:01:04    2551294

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "You can't get from North Leitrim to South Leitrim without entering Cavan or Roscommon.

Well that's a new one on me, surely there must be small roads connecting along the east side of lough Allen?"
You can't get to part of Monaghan (The Connons/Drummully) without leaving the EU!

Hope to see an attacking Monaghan team on Sunday, less of the messing about.
Jones to start for Jack.

Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1089 - 13/06/2024 21:33:36    2551297

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sorry monaghon gaa people for hijacking your thread there! we better let you get back to your discussions

dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 716 - 13/06/2024 22:29:39    2551309

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Replying To Tirchonaill1:  "You can't get from North Leitrim to South Leitrim without entering Cavan or Roscommon.

Well that's a new one on me, surely there must be small roads connecting along the east side of lough Allen?"
You can't get to Colman Island outside Clones without going through Fermanagh.

BrehonBlonde (Monaghan) - Posts: 44 - 13/06/2024 22:56:30    2551311

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Replying To dickie10:  "thats a crazy stat about lietrim, that you cant go from north to south of the county without leaving it. i always thought cavan and roscommon seem to be culturally fairly close even though they dont touch. theres a strange thing around meath westmeath border areas where they actually are placid enough when playing football against each other as the areas that straddle the border for 80% of the middle are not massive football stongholds and hurling would be number one in those areas, all the way from Castlepollard/kilskyre to delvin /athboy down to raharney/killyon, they would be places where a hurling match would always be on tv in a pub over football and where people would regulalry go to see munster championhsip games in thurles etc. id say theres very few other strong football counties (div 2) where this would happen or am i wrong? its a big area basically mullingar east to kells and trim .

Its hard to know who meath are most culturally aligned with, i suppose it has to be kildare, most of meath looks the same, same accent south of Trim as far as Naas. Both counties seem to be always lumped together when talking economiccaly , GAA , or geographically. both counites when there footballers are going bad would be happier going to a race meeting than seeing them play! i always notice a huge amount of MH and KE cars around Galway each year for races too, it always seemed the place to be when you were in early 20s, before races was the go to social event in other areas of ireland. there always seemed to be people from the same areas each year, namely Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Kildare and Meath. It was rare as hens teeth to meet anyone from Donegal, Lietrim, Cavan , Fermanagh or Longford at the races. Only counties you would meet from the north were usually Down or lesser extent Armagh. I think race going and young people is a very contagiuos activity, if a few lads and lassies are going it usually inspires the next crew a few years later to go and it has a snowball effect. I remember around 2016 i seen that social pheomen at its peak in the Hole in the Wall pub in Galway, i counted around 50 young people from 18-35 all from within a 10 mile radius of Trim co meath in the one pub all in different groups from different villages"
It will be interesting to see who is at the races sunday. Defeat for either team sunday will cap off a very poor year but I suspect o rourke will be under pressure than Corey if meath loose. And for alot of monahan players you'd imagine it's a career defining game as well so it's going to be interesting to see who can get over the line.

222 (UK) - Posts: 730 - 14/06/2024 09:08:45    2551334

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Replying To dickie10:  "thats a crazy stat about lietrim, that you cant go from north to south of the county without leaving it. i always thought cavan and roscommon seem to be culturally fairly close even though they dont touch. theres a strange thing around meath westmeath border areas where they actually are placid enough when playing football against each other as the areas that straddle the border for 80% of the middle are not massive football stongholds and hurling would be number one in those areas, all the way from Castlepollard/kilskyre to delvin /athboy down to raharney/killyon, they would be places where a hurling match would always be on tv in a pub over football and where people would regulalry go to see munster championhsip games in thurles etc. id say theres very few other strong football counties (div 2) where this would happen or am i wrong? its a big area basically mullingar east to kells and trim .

Its hard to know who meath are most culturally aligned with, i suppose it has to be kildare, most of meath looks the same, same accent south of Trim as far as Naas. Both counties seem to be always lumped together when talking economiccaly , GAA , or geographically. both counites when there footballers are going bad would be happier going to a race meeting than seeing them play! i always notice a huge amount of MH and KE cars around Galway each year for races too, it always seemed the place to be when you were in early 20s, before races was the go to social event in other areas of ireland. there always seemed to be people from the same areas each year, namely Tipperary, Cork, Limerick, Kildare and Meath. It was rare as hens teeth to meet anyone from Donegal, Lietrim, Cavan , Fermanagh or Longford at the races. Only counties you would meet from the north were usually Down or lesser extent Armagh. I think race going and young people is a very contagiuos activity, if a few lads and lassies are going it usually inspires the next crew a few years later to go and it has a snowball effect. I remember around 2016 i seen that social pheomen at its peak in the Hole in the Wall pub in Galway, i counted around 50 young people from 18-35 all from within a 10 mile radius of Trim co meath in the one pub all in different groups from different villages"
Theres lots of different accents in Meath thougbisn't there.

Parts of North Meath the accent wouldnt be that unlike the Cavan accent or South Monaghan, Very South Armagh (Likes of Oisin McConville i'm thinking of) and parts of Louth.

Then you have the Meath men with the Dublin accent.

Or am I totally off the mark there?

drumalee11 (USA) - Posts: 296 - 14/06/2024 09:23:14    2551337

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Monaghan won't be beaten, Meath aren't at the races

Shearer (Louth) - Posts: 838 - 14/06/2024 10:05:42    2551354

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Replying To drumalee11:  "Theres lots of different accents in Meath thougbisn't there.

Parts of North Meath the accent wouldnt be that unlike the Cavan accent or South Monaghan, Very South Armagh (Likes of Oisin McConville i'm thinking of) and parts of Louth.

Then you have the Meath men with the Dublin accent.

Or am I totally off the mark there?"
Same with a lot of Counties. Parts of Cavan have a Fermanagh twang around Ballyconnell. Kingscourt is like a Meath, or Louth accent. Around Redhills it borders Monaghan and Fermanagh. Arva on Leitrim and Longford border.

FoolsGold (Cavan) - Posts: 2769 - 14/06/2024 11:18:44    2551380

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Replying To drumalee11:  "Theres lots of different accents in Meath thougbisn't there.

Parts of North Meath the accent wouldnt be that unlike the Cavan accent or South Monaghan, Very South Armagh (Likes of Oisin McConville i'm thinking of) and parts of Louth.

Then you have the Meath men with the Dublin accent.

Or am I totally off the mark there?"
There is a few different accents in Meath for sure. In the towns that are close to Dublin like Ashbourne, Dunboyne, Ratoath, there's been definitely an influx of Dublin people moving out over the last 10/15 years, so you get a lot of people in those areas with Dublinesque accents.

As you go further North in the county, it depends where you go - but there's a close border with Monaghan, Cavan and Louth, so you'll definitely get an accent influence in those areas. So the Kingscourt accent wouldn't differ massively from a Nobber accent for example.

hyperache (Meath) - Posts: 218 - 14/06/2024 13:54:45    2551428

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Jaysus this forum has gone to the dogs... Talking about accents.

Big weekend of club action ahead. What are the predictions?

MonaghanMad2020 (Monaghan) - Posts: 4 - 14/06/2024 15:55:09    2551458

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Monaghan football is thriving when the forum is about accents & dialects.

everytomdick&harry (Monaghan) - Posts: 11 - 14/06/2024 16:01:03    2551459

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Replying To everytomdick&harry:  "Monaghan football is thriving when the forum is about accents & dialects."
Yip well I'm a monaghan man living in Trim so this weekend is important. Although you'd hardly know Meath had a team such is the lack of interest in them round here. They have always had my respect given their history. Neither side in a great place but monaghan should prevail by a couple of points.

seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1827 - 14/06/2024 17:09:11    2551474

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Just saw the team. We look v lightweight these days compared to even last year there a lot of lads missing. In the circumstances Woods remaining on the bench makes little to no sense. Jack and Mansy start which doesn't fill me with confidence given the last few occasions they started together.

seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1827 - 15/06/2024 07:17:39    2551534

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Replying To MonaghanMad2020:  "Jaysus this forum has gone to the dogs... Talking about accents.

Big weekend of club action ahead. What are the predictions?"
Blayney could be making the trip to to oram and toome next year by the looks of it …

Senior… dosnt look good for the clubs when this time last year scotstown were bottom without county players and this year are top without them albeit Shane Carey and k Hughes are available. Although I think the champ will b v competitive in deciding who plays scotstown in the final

In junior it will be tight as always but surprised to see Aghabog up top

veterngaa (Monaghan) - Posts: 453 - 15/06/2024 08:14:07    2551539

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Replying To seanie08:  "Just saw the team. We look v lightweight these days compared to even last year there a lot of lads missing. In the circumstances Woods remaining on the bench makes little to no sense. Jack and Mansy start which doesn't fill me with confidence given the last few occasions they started together."
Very disappointing lineup given the circumstances. How many times do Jack and McManus need to start together to prove it can't work? It was an opportunity to go Mooney Woods and Jones up front with McManus in reserve. A shot to nothing.
No KDuffy or O Connell either leaving the whole thing looking threadbare. Dessie Ward missing leaves a massive gap too.

Eddie the Exile (Monaghan) - Posts: 1089 - 15/06/2024 11:06:42    2551559

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Replying To Eddie the Exile:  "Very disappointing lineup given the circumstances. How many times do Jack and McManus need to start together to prove it can't work? It was an opportunity to go Mooney Woods and Jones up front with McManus in reserve. A shot to nothing.
No KDuffy or O Connell either leaving the whole thing looking threadbare. Dessie Ward missing leaves a massive gap too."
There will probably be a few changes before throw in. I can see Jones getting in maybe.
Wilson at midfield is a good call though, hopefully he'll start.
It's a big game in every sense of the word. I'm nervous already.

PolicemanFox (Monaghan) - Posts: 170 - 15/06/2024 11:51:40    2551567

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Replying To veterngaa:  "Blayney could be making the trip to to oram and toome next year by the looks of it …

Senior… dosnt look good for the clubs when this time last year scotstown were bottom without county players and this year are top without them albeit Shane Carey and k Hughes are available. Although I think the champ will b v competitive in deciding who plays scotstown in the final

In junior it will be tight as always but surprised to see Aghabog up top"
I wouldn't say its a certainty scotstown win the championship, there out right favourites and it will take a huge peformance to beat them but Inniskeen were close last year. Donaghmoyne seem to have started well but they usually flatter to decieve in championship. The demise of Blayney has been remarkable, you'd have to wonder how it has come to this. Even in the past 10 years they have had competitive juvenile teams but at adult it has been desperate stuff.

222 (UK) - Posts: 730 - 15/06/2024 12:10:21    2551576

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Replying To veterngaa:  "Blayney could be making the trip to to oram and toome next year by the looks of it …

Senior… dosnt look good for the clubs when this time last year scotstown were bottom without county players and this year are top without them albeit Shane Carey and k Hughes are available. Although I think the champ will b v competitive in deciding who plays scotstown in the final

In junior it will be tight as always but surprised to see Aghabog up top"
S Carey and K Hughes? Are you a Scotstown game attendee.

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 196 - 15/06/2024 12:39:08    2551582

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