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Replying To MrPBoylan: "Senior Corduff v Truagh: Truagh but very close Scotstown v Clontibret: Scotstown, too much depth with Clontibret relying on Mone and McManus still Aughnamullen v Inniskeen: Inniskeen Maraghcloone v latton: Maraghcloone but very close Intermediate Blayney v Tyholland: Blayney but close Donaghmoyne v Toome: Donaghmoyne well Carrick v Drumhowan: Carrick but no O'Hanlon so closer than expected. Harps v Clones: Harps Junior Oram v Eire Og: Eire Og to win well Kileveen v Seans: Seans, and to give reaction to last week Emyvale v Scotstown: Scotstown but very close Blackhill v Rockcorry- Blackhill" Agree with all predictions above In Senior I imagine Corduff are nervous as last weekend showed they are a poor team who could find themselves in a relegation play off very quickly after being flying in the league. A draw or worse and they are in the relegation battle. Ballybay and Aughnamullen are in trouble. Intermediate is a minefield with the bottom 3 shaping like, Doohamlet, Toome, Drumhowan. Think Emyvale are getting the excuses in early using injuries to key players as a factor but overall their character is weak and another year in Junior beckons. Fixtures of note this weekend Corduff v Truagh - Corduff with injury worries and the vultures are circling. Clontibret v Scotstown which will have serious quality on show. I imagine this will draw the biggest crowd with multiple stars on show. Magheracloone and Latton both teams will fancy a win here to try and top group 2 Harps v Clones, both teams well matched hoping to get to the knockout stage of the championship with Harps also in a league semi final. Clones with a game under there belt a big advantage, Neighbours Emyvale and Scotstown meet in Junior with reports Scotstown should have beat them in a league semi final. farneygossip (Monaghan) - Posts: 43 - 14/08/2025 10:16:29 2631795 Link
Replying To Monaghanball_92: "Intermediate championship winners predictions?? I feel there's 5/6 teams well capable of pulling this off I edge carrick for this one You still have donaghmoyne killanny harps clones blayney Anyone any thoughts or predictions on this" Don't think clones will have enough and id a bit sceptical of harps in terms of getting over the line. Still think blayney and carrick will be the ones to go up Monaghan_football (Monaghan) - Posts: 53 - 14/08/2025 10:25:50 2631797 Link
Replying To farneygossip: "Agree with all predictions above In Senior I imagine Corduff are nervous as last weekend showed they are a poor team who could find themselves in a relegation play off very quickly after being flying in the league. A draw or worse and they are in the relegation battle. Ballybay and Aughnamullen are in trouble. Intermediate is a minefield with the bottom 3 shaping like, Doohamlet, Toome, Drumhowan. Think Emyvale are getting the excuses in early using injuries to key players as a factor and another year in Junior beckons. Fixtures of note this weekend Corduff v Truagh - Corduff with injury worries and the vultures are circling. Clontibret v Scotstown which will have serious quality on show. I imagine this will draw the biggest crowd with multiple stars on show. Magheracloone and Latton both teams will fancy a win here to try and top group 2 Harps v Clones, both teams well matched hoping to get to the knockout stage of the championship with Harps also in a league semi final. Clones with a game under there belt a big advantage, Neighbours Emyvale and Scotstown meet in Junior with reports Scotstown should have beat them in a league semi final." Emyvale…. be interesting too see how they cope with the pressure, seeing as they've club ulster won and all Ireland before they've even won junior monaghan Monaghanball_92 (Monaghan) - Posts: 26 - 14/08/2025 10:36:00 2631800 Link
Replying To Monaghan_football: "Don't think clones will have enough and id a bit sceptical of harps in terms of getting over the line. Still think blayney and carrick will be the ones to go up" I don't get this blayney hype Monaghanball_92 (Monaghan) - Posts: 26 - 14/08/2025 11:31:00 2631812 Link
Replying To Monaghan_football: "Don't think clones will have enough and id a bit sceptical of harps in terms of getting over the line. Still think blayney and carrick will be the ones to go up" Harps won't be stopped in intermediate Gaels1989 (Monaghan) - Posts: 43 - 14/08/2025 11:33:06 2631814 Link
Replying To ScarnaMan1990: "Not too sure if they do or not I think a few men stepped away last year after their defeat in the champo qf. After a brilliant start to their champo campaign coming top of their group." Last year I believe the talk was they had champo won after topping group … wouldn't be surprised if a few men retired/walked away Was talk of irwin leaving to cullyhanna that would be some upset for them. He's all they have along with a few older men and young Keenan lad on the wing serious ball carrier when Irwin's not about he's the lad that makes them click Monaghanball_92 (Monaghan) - Posts: 26 - 14/08/2025 11:43:35 2631818 Link
Replying To Gaels1989: "Harps won't be stopped in intermediate" Can't be stopped if you don't start ;) Carrick favourites, followed by Killanny. eirekeeper (Monaghan) - Posts: 123 - 14/08/2025 12:09:12 2631828 Link
Replying To eirekeeper: "Can't be stopped if you don't start ;) Carrick favourites, followed by Killanny." Thinking the same here myself killanny or donaghmoyne followed by carrick harps clones blayney not far off but Monaghanball_92 (Monaghan) - Posts: 26 - 14/08/2025 12:19:43 2631831 Link
Replying To Monaghanball_92: "I don't get this blayney hype" Not really hype. I just picked them from start of year to go up so sticking with it Monaghan_football (Monaghan) - Posts: 53 - 14/08/2025 12:25:59 2631833 Link
Replying To Monaghan_football: "Not really hype. I just picked them from start of year to go up so sticking with it" What reason did you pick them to go up. You must know or see something I can't … It's not illegal to change your brutal pick Monaghanball_92 (Monaghan) - Posts: 26 - 14/08/2025 13:00:06 2631839 Link
Replying To eirekeeper: "Can't be stopped if you don't start ;) Carrick favourites, followed by Killanny." Wait until the push comes on Carrick in a big game they'll fold, could see killanny bullying the locals if they meet on the big stages. Deadballmerchant (Monaghan) - Posts: 22 - 14/08/2025 13:01:24 2631840 Link
Replying To Gaels1989: "I'd have a guess your a blayney man yourself." Lad, that doesnt stop him being a Blackhill supporter, not that it seems that geography would be your strong point. At least they are not handing out outrageous amounts of cash to try to buy championships, like a few of the teams in Senior. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 756 - 14/08/2025 13:07:59 2631841 Link
Replying To ScarnaMan1990: "Not too sure if they do or not I think a few men stepped away last year after their defeat in the champo qf. After a brilliant start to their champo campaign coming top of their group." Oram have Big turn over in players from last year. Especially in attack Paugie Graham, Ryan Mcguinness and Jason McDonald. After a great run in the group the whole thing implowded in the aghabog game. Sending off and poor discipline. Out of all the junior teams with the exception of emyvale. Their under age set up is in good health. They will contest their 3rd minor final in two years this weekend. Their u16 have been competitive, their u14 have contested div 2 and 3 finals. I see they have fielded a second team at u14 this year and their u12s are also competitive. All fielding on their own no amalgamation. They had a county u20 in mccooey, lynch on the minors and couple on the u15 development team. It will be 4 or 5 years before they become competitive at adult level again. And by competitive I mean getting in top 4 and contesting semi finals. They are along way off from winning anything latefortraining (Monaghan) - Posts: 129 - 14/08/2025 13:09:00 2631843 Link
Replying To Monaghanball_92: "Predictions for this weekend Starting Friday night junior Seans Eire og Blackhill Emyvale All winning. Eire og and Sean's comfortably other 2 not as convincing Intermediate Harps Tyholland Carrick Donaghmoyne. Carrick donaghmoyne comfortable Could be completely wrong with other 2 just fancy them both to win. Games could go either way Senior Hard games to call Scotstown Corduff Iniskeen Latton. Iniskeen should be comfortable. Other 3 games are crackers latton magheracloone possibly game of the weekend Anyone any other predictions" Seans x 9 Eire Og x 6 Blackhill x 10 Emyvale x 11 Clones/Harps x Draw Tyholland x 1 Carrick x 7 Donaghmoyne x 14 Scotstown x 8 Truagh x 7 Inniskeen/Aughnamullen x Draw Magheracloone x 2 ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 756 - 14/08/2025 13:21:54 2631849 Link
Replying To latefortraining: "Oram have Big turn over in players from last year. Especially in attack Paugie Graham, Ryan Mcguinness and Jason McDonald. After a great run in the group the whole thing implowded in the aghabog game. Sending off and poor discipline. Out of all the junior teams with the exception of emyvale. Their under age set up is in good health. They will contest their 3rd minor final in two years this weekend. Their u16 have been competitive, their u14 have contested div 2 and 3 finals. I see they have fielded a second team at u14 this year and their u12s are also competitive. All fielding on their own no amalgamation. They had a county u20 in mccooey, lynch on the minors and couple on the u15 development team. It will be 4 or 5 years before they become competitive at adult level again. And by competitive I mean getting in top 4 and contesting semi finals. They are along way off from winning anything" Asides how brutal they really are 4/5 years before they make semis, your also having a laugh aren't you…. I see your point they only came 10th out of 10th in the junior league and lost their first championship game to rock who was their only hope of getting 2 points in that group If they pulled the plug completely it wouldn't surprise me Their footballers have great potential to be nothing more than rock bottom in junior Monaghanball_92 (Monaghan) - Posts: 26 - 14/08/2025 13:36:27 2631855 Link
Replying To Deadballmerchant: "Wait until the push comes on Carrick in a big game they'll fold, could see killanny bullying the locals if they meet on the big stages." Beat them convincingly in the league semi-final, without Stephen O'Hanlon. Also beat them earlier in the league. eirekeeper (Monaghan) - Posts: 123 - 14/08/2025 14:36:23 2631878 Link