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Replying To patk: "We would be rightly stocked for midfield options and middle third ball winners if we could have McCarville, Gallagher, Mohan, Kelly, McCaul and McPhillips all in the mix. With the current rules, it's important to have that kind of presence in the middle third and we were sorely lacking there today - especially evident without the experience of Beggan. It's a crushing defeat today, but I think our older players still have a decent bit of football in them (no lads hanging on in their late 30s like has often been the case), and we have alot of young talent coming through. Hope we can regroup later in the year and plan a right crack at 2027" McAnespies legs are gone and that was his game so he's likely gone. Hard to know if Jack will stick at it much longer too. Other than that, pretty solid squad going forward. Hopefully a few big lumps coming out of minors to help the thing too Jjoniel79 (Monaghan) - Posts: 276 - 28/06/2026 23:09:18 2682721 Link
14 me louth different gravey monaghan win notin Lolou37 (Louth) - Posts: 40 - 29/06/2026 01:29:12 2682739 Link
Cahir O Kane done really good analysis on monaghan yesterday. Basically said monaghan played for years with beggan right sided keeper and were so used to it then had to adjust to left sided mooney yesterday who actually did well enough yesterday under difficult circumstances having v little options for kickouts with most of our big men unavailable. It was a strange game. Monaghan came with purpose energy when 15 v 15 but the sending off almost jinked that giving louth that purpose energy. O kane v good in analysing our inability to make extra man count in stretching the play meaning we went too narrow and easier to defend against for 14 man louth. In short leaving beggan and injuries aside we just didnt bring our best to the business end in croke park and yet could have actually still ended up winning the game. All that said think we lost to a really good louth side who are a generational side that could well make the final and win an all ireland over the next few years if not this one. seanie08 (Monaghan) - Posts: 2019 - 29/06/2026 08:03:08 2682751 Link
Replying To Monaghanmad123: "Men on this forum tonight showing they stay on the barstool too long before games. If anybody watched a warm up since the 20's finished you would have seen Mooney has been involved with the panel since then. Not as if they pulled him off shamrock park Tuesday night to play!" Can you not read the post properly before running off with the barstool comments? Mooney's ability was never questioned, and nobody said he was pulled in from nowhere. The point was very clear: why was Mulligan the No. 2 all year, and then Mooney only given that role in the week of our biggest game of the year? If management had full faith in Mulligan, why change it at that stage? And if they didn't have faith in him, why was Mooney not made No. 2 earlier, especially after the U20s finished? That is the question. The goalkeeper situation and the kick-out strategy are fair things to ask about. Beggan is getting older, and there was always a possibility of injury, so surely the back-up plan should have been clear long before last week. This is an open forum where people are entitled to post their views. Throwing around barstool comments only shows immaturity and an inability to deal with a fair question in a mature way. Maybe it is easier to attack the poster than comment on the actual management issue, or maybe you are too close to the management team to see it clearly. rw (Monaghan) - Posts: 12 - 29/06/2026 08:22:35 2682752 Link
Replying To moros: "Hard luck today. Important to be humble after a win. Plenty of Ros folk acknowledged your win v us but many of ye weren't great winners. Best of luck going forward." Thankyou. The majority of posters here have huge respect for Roscommon but unfortunately we have a few very immature posters too, please ignore them and don't let it pepper your opinion of Monaghan fans. Blackcardnot (USA) - Posts: 121 - 29/06/2026 09:07:40 2682759 Link
On another form giving out about the excessive shortening of the championship. would an extra week or two have allowed the best Keeper in the country to play in one of the biggest games of his career, maybe. Would Beggan have made the difference we will never know. Hard Luck yesterday, your boys played well every time they went on the field and thats all you can ask for. ulsterrules (Donegal) - Posts: 312 - 29/06/2026 09:23:32 2682766 Link
Replying To Monaghanmad123: "Men on this forum tonight showing they stay on the barstool too long before games. If anybody watched a warm up since the 20's finished you would have seen Mooney has been involved with the panel since then. Not as if they pulled him off shamrock park Tuesday night to play!" Given the circumstances, young Mooney did OK, especially when you consider that when he looked out the pitch, apart from Michael McCarville, every Monaghan player was giving 2 or 3 inches to their marker. Not an easy place for any keeper to be. However, I think after coming on in Clones last week and getting a few league games under his belt, Mulligan should have got the nod. This kind of messing is why no established club keeper has stuck it out as number 2 to Rory over the last 10 years. I am not all that fussed if we don't get promoted to Division 1 next year, so long as we do enough to finish in the top half of the league to guarantee Sam Maguire football. I'd rather see us do a few season in the more forgiving environment of Division 2 to build out the squad, with the number 1 aim to develop a back up Keeper with enough game time under their belt that they can come in and fit seamlessly into the team. Rory won't be around forever and as another poster mentioned, the chances of injury are only going to increase as he gets older. TheHunter (Monaghan) - Posts: 25 - 29/06/2026 10:08:09 2682772 Link
Monaghan is such a good team. on our day we can beat anyone i think. yesterday wasnt our day and louth much better i think the focus for next year is start looking at the size of our squad. we need to be getting the big lads back, mcphilips, mohan and barry mcbennet. add louis kelly and bobby mccaul to that list...you've also got the likes of nulty and wilson to come back too...all them names makes our good squad even better. we've always struggled with producing good big competent footballers but ive named 4 or 5 there - not necessarily all world beaters but id rather have them that not have them and as i say make our good squad even better. i dont blame anyone for the loss yesterday. the book always stops with management and i was very vocal towards the end of malachys career so gabriel not exempt from finger pointing - we should have done better against 14 men...get more lads interested in the county shirt is what our manager needs to work on and maybe a fresh voice in the changing room MalsBalls (Monaghan) - Posts: 285 - 29/06/2026 10:28:59 2682778 Link
Should Malone be taking over next year? He's done ok on the club front with blaney the last 2 seasons. You look at Westmeath and McHugh farneygael3 (Monaghan) - Posts: 736 - 29/06/2026 10:43:20 2682782 Link
Replying To moros: "Hard luck today. Important to be humble after a win. Plenty of Ros folk acknowledged your win v us but many of ye weren't great winners. Best of luck going forward." It's hard not to be humbled after yesterday, Louth were by far the better team. We struggled at midfield to compete against their size. Dara McDonnell is an outstanding player and destroyed us when it was kicked anywhere near him yesterday. Sam Mulroy blew us apart when he was on the ball, and the two subs in Tadhg McDonnell and Ciaran Byrne sliced us open when they came on to the field. Yesterday was raw and it was a battle of blood and guts and Louth won that in spades.. We had fantastic performances on our side in Woods, O'Hanlon and McCarville but Louth were just better. Farney (Monaghan) - Posts: 832 - 29/06/2026 11:00:35 2682788 Link
Not that we can talk but Can't believe what I saw yesterday. Tactically a horror show even before the sending off. Where has all the great Monaghan Underage keepers throughout the years went e.g David Kirk, Conor Forde, Garland. Was yesterday a cost of not giving a couple of others a chance? Then to not create space while the extra man was there was bizarre especially in these new rules. Will Monaghan get a better chance. 8 points up against us last year and didn't see it out. You would hope it's not a theme Jimsam12 (Donegal) - Posts: 24 - 29/06/2026 11:12:55 2682793 Link
Congrats to Louth. Deserved winners on the day. Monaghan, like many smaller counties, need every player available to get through these games. I think the loss of RB and KG was major to confidence. Add missing Bobby McCaul...we can't really absorb that. Jamie Mooney did really well but he was under huge pressure. I found the movement of the outfield was far too slow for the lockouts and therefore we looked slow. We could cope ok with losing RB if we had more ball winning ability in the midfield but MM was the only real option there. A big failure was not taking the advantage of the red card...it looked like we were the team with 14! There was one thing...Louth got a free with 5 mins left and I felt we had the momentum and could have drove on. I genuinely couldn't see why they got it but from there they kicked 4 unanswered points and Monaghan just gave up. I would like to see GB there next year to see how we go. Best of luck to our neighbours from here! seanfinn (Monaghan) - Posts: 363 - 29/06/2026 11:29:41 2682801 Link
Replying To moros: "Hard luck today. Important to be humble after a win. Plenty of Ros folk acknowledged your win v us but many of ye weren't great winners. Best of luck going forward." Louth were the better team. I think Monaghan got stage fright again. I thought the game was over with the sending off. Fair play to Louth - no it's no buts they were the better team Bernardo (Monaghan) - Posts: 627 - 29/06/2026 11:45:09 2682805 Link
Replying To moros: "Hard luck today. Important to be humble after a win. Plenty of Ros folk acknowledged your win v us but many of ye weren't great winners. Best of luck going forward." Louth were the better team. I think Monaghan got stage fright again. I thought the game was over with the sending off. Fair play to Louth - no ifs no buts they were the better team Bernardo (Monaghan) - Posts: 627 - 29/06/2026 11:52:22 2682809 Link
Great season - thanks to the team and management for some great days this summer despite a disappointing end to the campaign yesterday in Croke Park. Lots of great experience gained for the team and management this summer and if they can learn from yesterday and this eventful year, keep the panel and mgt team together, get players missing through injury back next season, as well as unearth one or two more players for next year; we should have more great memories to look forward to next year and this Monaghan team are not too far away from the best teams in the country. Keep the faith. Monaghan Abú OrielPower (Monaghan) - Posts: 114 - 29/06/2026 12:23:07 2682817 Link
That game was lost on the line. Plain and simple. Mooney should have been taken on as soon as Louth went to 14 and go for jugular as we had a 4 point lead and should have pushed on updafaughs (Monaghan) - Posts: 172 - 29/06/2026 12:27:09 2682818 Link
Stick to the mushroom lads Lolou37 (Louth) - Posts: 40 - 29/06/2026 12:28:07 2682819 Link
Replying To Jimsam12: "Not that we can talk but Can't believe what I saw yesterday. Tactically a horror show even before the sending off. Where has all the great Monaghan Underage keepers throughout the years went e.g David Kirk, Conor Forde, Garland. Was yesterday a cost of not giving a couple of others a chance? Then to not create space while the extra man was there was bizarre especially in these new rules. Will Monaghan get a better chance. 8 points up against us last year and didn't see it out. You would hope it's not a theme" Garland is playing with Tipp. It's very difficult for lads to hang around knowing how limited game time will be. You have to admire evan comeford from dublin huge kudos in that regard. Look mooney done OK yesterday, I don't think he cost us even if we did struggle at times in the middle. But as others said, the second choice keeper should really be stepping in and filling the void, it was an odd choice. My last post on this, the game was there for us and we didn't take our chances coming down the stretch beggan or no beggan. Lots of posters happy already to look to next year but it's very hard to keep passing opportunities like these, football is very competitive at present. No guarantees monaghan will be back there just look at armagh and donegal this year. 222 (UK) - Posts: 951 - 29/06/2026 13:05:28 2682834 Link
Until monaghan fill no 5 to no 12 with 6 ft 3 plus players and breaking ball dogs we will be where we are look at m mccarville and how much he has progressed because he is getting game time why can't the same be done with our other bigger lads 7 points up at half time last year v donegal in q final and got turned over same this year b mcbennett mcphillips carolan from Carrick Leonard are not injured but for some reason our big physical players do not get the same playing time as our smaller players doesn't matter what our nippy players do they still get picked the game now is played in the air and is just like juvenile football where the big lads rule last years 4 semi finalists meath donegal kerry tyrone this years 4 semi finalists louth kerry mayo dublin all big lads round the middle until we unearth and give these players a genuine chance round the middle were goosed Barry mcbennett was just coming into his own then gone mcphillips the same you can't coach against height and physicality Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 178 - 29/06/2026 13:33:36 2682855 Link