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What happened the minors at the weekend? Not much being said.

Monaghangaaman3 (Monaghan) - Posts: 8 - 20/05/2026 17:38:10    2674391

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Replying To moodoo:  "All the plaudits around the effort and determination our lads showed on Sunday is well deserved. If you had said at the end of the league that we would take the Ulster Final to ET, not many would have thought it possible.

Questions do have to be asked about the S&C side of it though. We looked miles off it in terms of fitness at times in the league. By ET on Sunday we had players who could barely walk. I know the Derry game went to ET, but that was 2 weeks ago, can't be used as a reason. Armagh have an extra game played, but they had loads left in ET.

The goal that Armagh got in normal time - Dylan Byrne played a ball up the line towards McGorman, he had no chance of getting it, he had been signalling to the bench for a couple of minutes that he needed to come off. O Hanlon couldn't move for most of ET, McCarville not much better. I assumed we had used all our subs, and that was why he was still on - and then Gary appears with 5 minutes left, and the game gone."
Physically armagh brought alot more energy than the Derry game. The 70 minutes were fairly intense on Sunday especially the last 15 minutes, monaghan ran themselves into the ground. Armagh are so well conditioned though and most of their players have alot of work in the bodies going back nearly 5 years. On paper there panel would be more advanced on S and C purely due to time and work put in. Our panel is not like that, injuries newcomers probably took its toll on us in ET. I wouldn't be to hard on the S and C coach for Sunday.

222 (UK) - Posts: 932 - 20/05/2026 18:07:32    2674398

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Replying To Monaghangaaman3:  "What happened the minors at the weekend? Not much being said."
12 points up in second half and lost not much to be said when dealing with 16/17 year olds. Tier 3 match v Wicklow this Saturday get out and support them

farneygael3 (Monaghan) - Posts: 677 - 20/05/2026 19:24:13    2674411

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Replying To Monaghangaaman3:  "What happened the minors at the weekend? Not much being said."
Dont think anyone is going going to start ridiculing a bunch of 16/17 year olds on a forum

Monaghan_football (Monaghan) - Posts: 140 - 20/05/2026 21:16:34    2674420

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