Dessie Mone reckons Monaghan are in a good place heading into 2020 and hopes they can continue to hold their own with the top teams in the country going forward.

Mone, along with Clontibret club mate Vinny Corey, announced his retirement from inter-county football yesterday after 16 seasons with the Farney County and still feels there’s more to come from the current batch.

“Monaghan’s in a good place,” Mone told The Irish News. “There’s a serious amount of work with their development squads, they’re in around the secondary schools, the primary schools. I teach in Clones and I know what work they do.

“There’s a lot of boys around my age starting to retire, there’s new players coming through and it’s whether they step up. I feel the young players in Monaghan will step up.

“Bar Dublin, every team’s in transition and it’s about who can get up to that level in the next year or two. I believe Monaghan can keep to that level, keep to Division 1 and that’s where you need to be keeping that standard.”

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