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Replying To ORIELMAN85:  "Hi lad sorry to tell ya, but it is coming in the next 4 or 5 years. I know misery loves company but you wont have company for much longer. Enjoy Division 3 or maybe like a few years ago Division 4. Cop yourself on, ye are light years behind us. As for your Senior clubs,they would struggle in Junior in Monaghan."
Are you mad? You have zero chance of winning the All Ireland in the next 5 or even 50 years. You're miles off. You haven't a single top forward in the whole county and no midfield either. As for the division 4 stuff! You're on route back to division two. We'll have a local Derby next year. Forget about trying to celebrate anything more meaningful than that.

KingdomofBreifne (Cavan) - Posts: 236 - 17/02/2026 14:08:41    2656996

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Replying To KingdomofBreifne:  "Are you mad? You have zero chance of winning the All Ireland in the next 5 or even 50 years. You're miles off. You haven't a single top forward in the whole county and no midfield either. As for the division 4 stuff! You're on route back to division two. We'll have a local Derby next year. Forget about trying to celebrate anything more meaningful than that."
Brave take thinking you'll pick up any points in Division 2 this year never mind talking about local derbies next year.

ConyersHill04 (Monaghan) - Posts: 42 - 17/02/2026 14:30:54    2657002

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Interesting year of club football coming up this year in Monaghan. Senior I think will be dominated by Scotstown again barring a major slip up. Intermediate looking a tasty affair, Ballybay, Aughnamullen, Killany and emyvale all will be fancing their chances. Then you've donaghmoyne who I think will have another mediocre season if reports of young garland moving club is true. Bit of a mixed bag I think. Should be interesting. Then in junior you've drumhowan back down where they belong along with aging currin and Sean's teams. Could be Scotstown year in junior.

GrattenMan87 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1 - 17/02/2026 16:31:05    2657024

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Replying To KingdomofBreifne:  "Are you mad? You have zero chance of winning the All Ireland in the next 5 or even 50 years. You're miles off. You haven't a single top forward in the whole county and no midfield either. As for the division 4 stuff! You're on route back to division two. We'll have a local Derby next year. Forget about trying to celebrate anything more meaningful than that."
The only local derby ye will have next year is with Leitrim, if they happen to get promoted. Living on days that most of ye dont even remember. When you get up to Division 1 and stay in it for 10 years then come back to me. We have been rebuilding for 2 years. Ye have been rebuilding for over 70 years.

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 946 - 17/02/2026 19:07:56    2657036

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Monaghans squad dept is very poor and when all these injuries occur you can clearly see the consequences. More has to be asked of how 10 or 12 players left the panel last year? You would be in a much better position of it was them lads replacing the injured players

FarneyFan11 (Monaghan) - Posts: 21 - 17/02/2026 20:00:21    2657043

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Great win for Largy College,Clones last night in their Ulster Final v St Aidan's, Cootehill. Strong players from Clones, Currin, Eire Og, Killeevan and Aghabog. Very impressed with the gk Quigley from Aghabog and Cusack at full back. Brady,from Currin no 5, and Quigley at 6 ,from Clones were excellent driving forward. Big Mantas was motm and Noah McGinty of Eire Og good too. McFarland,Oisin Lynch and Martin from Killeevan showed well up front. Good to see a Monaghan school in an All Ireland semi final.

Matchwatcher (Monaghan) - Posts: 28 - 18/02/2026 10:02:40    2657074

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Replying To mick2007:  "He had to be joking.. just to back that up, here's a fact, only for jack, scotstown wouldn't have got out of monaghsn these past 3 years never mind win an ulster title… likes of ward would walk on 90% of county teams never mind a club team…"
Unfortunately that's a baseless statement… we will never know

veterngaa (Monaghan) - Posts: 976 - 18/02/2026 11:11:02    2657096

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Replying To FarneyFan11:  "Monaghans squad dept is very poor and when all these injuries occur you can clearly see the consequences. More has to be asked of how 10 or 12 players left the panel last year? You would be in a much better position of it was them lads replacing the injured players"
Let us know the 10 that left the panel who coukd replace any of the injured players?

ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 946 - 18/02/2026 11:40:16    2657103

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Replying To ORIELMAN85:  "Let us know the 10 that left the panel who coukd replace any of the injured players?"
A point I've been trying to get across for a while now... Sean Jones, Barry McBennett, Jack Doogan, Colm Lennon, Paudie McMahon, Kevin Loughran, Dean McDonnell, Fergal Hanratty are all some examples that would take some of these injured spots, some would even take starting spots in my opinion and they would all definitely take sub spots at the worst. this is without including any names that went travelling/ retired etc.
Also, probably the biggest one to have left the panel and it has shown has been Moran, seems like he was the brains and the biggest reason to the good performances last year.

Deadballmerchant (Monaghan) - Posts: 43 - 18/02/2026 12:28:50    2657112

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Replying To GrattenMan87:  "Interesting year of club football coming up this year in Monaghan. Senior I think will be dominated by Scotstown again barring a major slip up. Intermediate looking a tasty affair, Ballybay, Aughnamullen, Killany and emyvale all will be fancing their chances. Then you've donaghmoyne who I think will have another mediocre season if reports of young garland moving club is true. Bit of a mixed bag I think. Should be interesting. Then in junior you've drumhowan back down where they belong along with aging currin and Sean's teams. Could be Scotstown year in junior."
Not sure if you keep up with the junior division but Scotstown won't be near it, the classic bluff job. To win junior ya need hardy men which aghabog and oram have loads of. These 2 along with drumhowan will be challenging for Junior, forget the rest

Farneyfan1916 (Monaghan) - Posts: 15 - 18/02/2026 14:18:03    2657142

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Replying To Matchwatcher:  "Great win for Largy College,Clones last night in their Ulster Final v St Aidan's, Cootehill. Strong players from Clones, Currin, Eire Og, Killeevan and Aghabog. Very impressed with the gk Quigley from Aghabog and Cusack at full back. Brady,from Currin no 5, and Quigley at 6 ,from Clones were excellent driving forward. Big Mantas was motm and Noah McGinty of Eire Og good too. McFarland,Oisin Lynch and Martin from Killeevan showed well up front. Good to see a Monaghan school in an All Ireland semi final."
Do ya want to name the whole team? Christ

Farneyfan1916 (Monaghan) - Posts: 15 - 18/02/2026 14:19:53    2657143

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Replying To Matchwatcher:  "Great win for Largy College,Clones last night in their Ulster Final v St Aidan's, Cootehill. Strong players from Clones, Currin, Eire Og, Killeevan and Aghabog. Very impressed with the gk Quigley from Aghabog and Cusack at full back. Brady,from Currin no 5, and Quigley at 6 ,from Clones were excellent driving forward. Big Mantas was motm and Noah McGinty of Eire Og good too. McFarland,Oisin Lynch and Martin from Killeevan showed well up front. Good to see a Monaghan school in an All Ireland semi final."
All Ireland semi final is a stretch too, it's about division 6 or 7. Although would love to see them go the whole way and lift Sam.Would be some boost for killeven and a chance for them to add to their many trophies.

Farneyfan1916 (Monaghan) - Posts: 15 - 18/02/2026 14:26:42    2657146

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Replying To ORIELMAN85:  "The only local derby ye will have next year is with Leitrim, if they happen to get promoted. Living on days that most of ye dont even remember. When you get up to Division 1 and stay in it for 10 years then come back to me. We have been rebuilding for 2 years. Ye have been rebuilding for over 70 years."
We're not living on any days. Unlike you, we're realistic about where we are. We'll pick up the points needed to stay in division two and will put our best foot forward in the Ulster semi final in the summer. We're unfortunately not ready to compete for the big prize. Your mob won't win a single worthwhile game this year. 7 losses in the league and a loss to us in Clones is where you're at. You haven't won a single trophy in a decade. There's no medal ceremony for staying in div one. What's more, you flogged a golden generation January after January to scrape through relegation matches in April and it left you unable even to win an ulster in the decade you did this.

KingdomofBreifne (Cavan) - Posts: 236 - 18/02/2026 17:27:32    2657196

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Replying To Deadballmerchant:  "A point I've been trying to get across for a while now... Sean Jones, Barry McBennett, Jack Doogan, Colm Lennon, Paudie McMahon, Kevin Loughran, Dean McDonnell, Fergal Hanratty are all some examples that would take some of these injured spots, some would even take starting spots in my opinion and they would all definitely take sub spots at the worst. this is without including any names that went travelling/ retired etc.
Also, probably the biggest one to have left the panel and it has shown has been Moran, seems like he was the brains and the biggest reason to the good performances last year."
The Jones one is a strange one to say the least. A lad who played minor u20s and was with seniors under two different managers for a few years bedding in suddenly leaves inter County set up behind the year after mcmanus retired when a lot of people saw him as a possible successor to mcmanus. We had no proper inside forwards v Dublin. Garland is a good lad but I dont think he has ever convinced at inter County football as a go to forward. Once Mccarthy is back fit id play him inside. With the new rules hed make hay and he has the pedigree at this level unlike a lot of our other forwards.

seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 1947 - 18/02/2026 19:20:22    2657209

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Replying To seanie08:  "The Jones one is a strange one to say the least. A lad who played minor u20s and was with seniors under two different managers for a few years bedding in suddenly leaves inter County set up behind the year after mcmanus retired when a lot of people saw him as a possible successor to mcmanus. We had no proper inside forwards v Dublin. Garland is a good lad but I dont think he has ever convinced at inter County football as a go to forward. Once Mccarthy is back fit id play him inside. With the new rules hed make hay and he has the pedigree at this level unlike a lot of our other forwards."
It's unfortunate he's not in there. He's a very good player for inniskeen and has put behind him two excellent County finals. He's had moments in a monaghan jersey to where he has been profilic. The other guys mentioned in the above post are not as good as Jones and have been bit part players over the past 5-6 years.

222 (UK) - Posts: 906 - 18/02/2026 20:40:24    2657216

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Replying To KingdomofBreifne:  "We're not living on any days. Unlike you, we're realistic about where we are. We'll pick up the points needed to stay in division two and will put our best foot forward in the Ulster semi final in the summer. We're unfortunately not ready to compete for the big prize. Your mob won't win a single worthwhile game this year. 7 losses in the league and a loss to us in Clones is where you're at. You haven't won a single trophy in a decade. There's no medal ceremony for staying in div one. What's more, you flogged a golden generation January after January to scrape through relegation matches in April and it left you unable even to win an ulster in the decade you did this."
When was the last time cavan beat a div 1 team league or championship

Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 115 - 18/02/2026 21:14:30    2657224

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