IRISH INDEPENDENT

a little bit of confused reporting. Mr Whooley didnt stop to the name of the stadium or who was playing such was his hurry to get to print.



Lights out in Omagh Park as floodlight failure mars National League opener
Declan Whooley


Published 31/01/2015 | 20:54

Omagh Park was plunged into darkness tonight as floodlight failure meant the National League fixture between Tyrone and Armagh had to be halted for 15 minutes in the second half........................

Monaghan had kicked six points in-a-row to turn a five-point deficit into a one-point lead early in the second half when the incident occurred.

The game was restarted once the problem was rectified with the home side trailing by a point.

BIG SACKS (Tyrone) - Posts: 1681 - 31/01/2015 21:25:26    1688524

Well I got 3 out of 4 right tonight, Monaghan winning is no big suprise but the manner of their win was, Tyrone looked totally abject for most of that game and unless something changes quick they could be in for a difficult league campaign

Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 31/01/2015 21:26:08    1688525

Great to get 2 points tonight, we needed to win to have a chance of staying up. Hard to judge how good we are at the moment as Tyrone were as poor as I've ever seen them, we kicked alot of wides when the game was in the melting pot. Hope Tyrone can bounce back next week, need to be much more aggressive to win ball around the middle of the field

mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1046 - 31/01/2015 21:26:41    1688527

Louth let me down for my accum. Ollie man what went wrong????
As for Tyrone??, not a huge surprise, i think the writing has been on the wall for them for awhile now, media keeps saying they are contenders, its all based on past glories, bit like Meath of last 7/8 year. It wont improve until Tyrone themselves accept that they on a very steep downward curve. Then rebuild from bottom. Its a long hard road ahead and it wont be easy.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 31/01/2015 22:00:14    1688543

Donegal were impressive enough last night. They were wasteful in the first half and seemed happy to allow Derry keep the ball for long periods. In the second half they upped the intensity. Neil Gallagher gave an exhibition. Michael Murphy was more effectively used (got a dubious penalty but Mark Lynch points _Derry 5th and 8th points were never frees either) and Paddy McBrearty and Martin O Reilly were very good in the corners. This full forward line is as good as any in my opinion. It would be no surprise if they win in Croke Park next Saturday.

bennybunny (Cork) - Posts: 3917 - 01/02/2015 08:41:32    1688546

Monaghan really do punch above their weight imo

fair play to them

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 01/02/2015 09:09:28    1688554

RD

I tipped Louth to be relegated,last nights result won't make me change my mind

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 01/02/2015 09:29:57    1688562

Missed my predictions for last nights games,I would have got 1 wrong!

But here are my predictions for today..

Dublin to beat Cork
Kerry to beat Mayo

Galway to beat Meath
Roscommon to beat Cavan
Laois to beat Westmeath
Kildare to beat Down

Wexford to beat Clare
Sligo to beat Limerick
Armagh to beat Tipp

Offaly to beat London
Longford to beat Leitrim
Antrim to beat Carlow

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 01/02/2015 09:33:35    1688563

ziggy320001
County: Meath
Posts: 1622

1688554
Monaghan really do punch above their weight imo

fair play to them


I don't think we punch above our weight. We have more than proved ourselves as a team over last 2 years. Winning Div 3 and Div2. I think we are punching at the correct weight and we will have more to offer this year.

supermon (Monaghan) - Posts: 1073 - 01/02/2015 09:40:31    1688566

I ziggy its looking that way. I had Louth staying or maybe even pushing for promotion.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 01/02/2015 09:59:01    1688574

01/02/2015 09:09:28
ziggy320001
County: Meath
Posts: 1623

Monaghan really do punch above their weight imo

fair play to them

In terms of population, probably yeah, if that's what you meant, but I'm a bit surprised with how some people are seeing this as such a shock. This Monaghan team are in Division 1 on merit, we didn't get lucky getting there, and Tyrone are definitely not the team they were. Still a tough league for us with only 3 games at home, but that's a great start.

patk (Monaghan) - Posts: 936 - 01/02/2015 10:06:06    1688576

ziggy its not that Monaghan punch above their weight, we have some seriously talented footballer but the media keep writing us off time and time again. Players like Dessie Mone, Darren Hughes, Kieran Hughes and McManus would walk into any team in Ireland. Last night we unearthed a real star for the future Ryan McAnespie. I thought Tyrone was going to win easily as Monaghan struggled to get a grip around mid field, Monaghan were slow and laboured with their passing and without the drive of Darren Hughes to run at the Tyrone defence it could have been a different story. I thought the missed frees would have cost us but luckily the backs held tight and with the Hughes brothers being exceptional Monaghan easily won. Also nice to see the myth put to bed about Monaghan just relying on Conor McManus.
I expect Monaghan to stay up and maybe a semi final. We really do love it in Monaghan when we are wrote of, i don't know how many times we will have to win to prove the pundits wrong.

shaggylegend (Monaghan) - Posts: 1932 - 01/02/2015 10:20:47    1688584

That was a great start for Monaghan. Tyrone are generallyhard to beat in Omagh.
Great start for our lads too. I felt that with the extra training Derry had over or lads it would have been tougher but in reality we should have won by more.
Paddy Mc Brearty, Murphy and O Reilly really looked good up front with Toye and Gallagher excellent in the middle. Our defence did look like ot needs a bit of work but with Mc Gee and Thompson to come back yet that will strengthen too.

Tir Conaill Abu (Donegal) - Posts: 1671 - 01/02/2015 10:33:36    1688588

Royaldunne no fighting spirit or leadership. When the likes of Paddy Keenan, Shane Lennon, Andy McDonnell, Razor Finnegan, Darren Clarke, Ronan Carroll are just a few to name that have retired or unavaible for one reason or another in the last year well its gonna hit a small panel like Louth really hard. The only conslation if Louth get relegated, I might get an away trip to London next year. Louth have four home games this year. They are the ones they have to target for points to stay up. Two away trips to Armagh and Sligo.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 01/02/2015 10:39:58    1688592

Agree with the general sentiment of the other Monaghan posters. We are here on merit and are better than Tyrone (were last year and probably the year before too), Whether we are at a level to stay up remains to be seen, can't imagine the other teams not punishing our wayward shooting of last night. We need to beat Cork.
The club scene in Monaghan has tightened considerably over the past 5 years or so, any one of six teams could easily have been promoted from intermediate to senior last year, the same could be said of the junior league (we only have 3 leagues). It's credit to the clubs that we can compete at this level

mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1046 - 01/02/2015 10:45:34    1688594

Good start for both promoted teams, Donegal & Monaghan.

I was at the Donegal team & what really pleased me was the way Rory Gallagher saw what needed to be done, made the changes & reaped the rewards.
McBrearty's performance was also excellent.

On to Croke Park!!

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 01/02/2015 11:56:00    1688616

PATK

Exactly what I meant,it wasn't meant as an insult,quite the opposite in fact..

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 01/02/2015 13:01:55    1688638

Ollie

ya Louth really struggled last year,so they cannot afford to lose players like the ones you named..

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 01/02/2015 13:03:33    1688639

Disgraceful display from Meath,I don't know what they are trying to do to be honest

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 01/02/2015 15:25:18    1688663

great win for Cork against Dubs

Time for supporters to be more positive. Who said anybody would predict Cork win is a fool? (Bennybunny???)

Cork and Mayo will contest All Ireland final..as i posted before

Rockies (Cork) - Posts: 947 - 01/02/2015 15:38:51    1688672