McKenna Cup 2024

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Queen's squad:

Bogue N,  Carville C, Courtney P, Crilly C,  Crozier J, Dillon R,  Gallagher H, Grimley J, Howard L, Hughes E, Kielt C, Loughrey, J,McArdle B, McCrory A, McCumiskey P, McGinn C, McVey P.Murphy F, O'Neill D, O'Kane J, O'Rourke M, Treanor P,Ward M, Winters K, Vernon C,

[orangeman]

Sorry - you called the first strike off -

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Rooney returns to Monaghan squad
Anthony Rooney has taken his place in the Monaghan squad for the first time since 2003 after returning home from the United States last week. The Clontibret man trained with the Farney County panel on Boxing Day and could play a part in the McKenna Cup game against Queen's on Sunday. Rooney is one of six new faces in manager Seamus McEnaney's 37-man squad.
The other additions are Raymond Ronaghan, Eoin Duffy, Eddie Lennon, Martin Corey and Paul McGuigan.
McEnaney's provisional squad of 37 players will be cut to 28 for the McKenna Cup campaign as seven students will be on duty with their universities and Stephen Gallogly and Shane Duffy are in Australia and will not return until mid-January.
Monaghan host Queen's at Clones at 1400 GMT on Sunday. McEnaney has indicated that he will use the tournament to assess fringe players who have yet to break into the starting 15. Panellists Mark Duffy, Shane Mulligan, Stephen Fitzpatrick and Mark Daly are expected to feature in the opening round of three games.

Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7161170.stm

[Maguire01]

Looking forward to the McKenna up now. A lot of people diss it, but it's good for two reasons:

1 - it's been a long time since the last bit of intercounty action (the irony being that the first game against Queen's won't actually be 'inter-county', stricly speaking) and it will be nice to cheer on the county side again;
and
2 - it's a good way to see the new players, to see the regular team played about with a bit and maybe spot one or two bright hopes for the league.

For Monaghan, i don't think we have much work to do with regard to our starting 15 from 2007, but it would be nice to build a stronger bench for 2008.

[Aaron Boone]

Still hard to forget that Kerry (and Cork) don't have to reappear until the first week of August. 

[orangeman]

Aaron - do you reckon that all this action in Ulster hs a negative effect on preformances later in the year ?

[Aaron Boone]

Possibly. Tyrone were superb upto the end of Feb in 2007, but lost so poorly to Meath when it mattered that Saturday in August. Kerry don't do January.

[Zulu]

Yeah they do, there is the McGrath Cup in Munster which Kerry compete in. They then go on and compete in the same National league as the rest of the country, so they play as many games as most counties (more than most) prior to the start of the championship. From there on it's a bit different alright, but as they tend to be at the business end of every competition they probably play more football than anyone else in any given year.

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Queen's defeat Monaghan at Clones
Queen's beat Monaghan 0-10 to 0-09 in Sunday's opening Gaelic Life McKenna Cup game at Clones.
The students displayed the better teamwork and cohesion and ran out deserved one-point winners after leading 0-6 to 0-5 at the interval.

Paul McComiskey top-scored for Queen's with six points, Micheal O'Rourke and Paul McVeigh scored a point apiece and Conor McGinn scored the winning point. Rory Woods accumulated three points for Monaghan. Conor McManus and Thomas Freeman both notched two points.
The game was notable in the fact that no players were booked during the match.

Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7165028.stm

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Queens University Sigerson Cup Panel 2008

Bourke Sean, Bogue Niall, Barton Shane, Crilly Cathal, Courtney Paul, Crozier Justin, Dillon Ryan, Gallagher Aodhan, Gallagher Hugh, Grimley James, Hughes Eoin, Howard Luke,Kelly Kevin, Loughrey James, Maginn Conor, McComiskey Paul, McCrory Aidan, McVey Paul, Martin Benny, Murphy Fergal, O'Kane Joe, O'Neill Dean, O'Neill Ruairί, O'Rourke Mίcheál, Tierney Caoίlin, Treanor Paul, Vernon Charlie, Ward Mickey, Winters Kerril

Not included in the initial McKenna Cup Panel:
Jamie O'Reilly, Gerard McAleese, Matthew O'Brien, Declan O'Hagan, Cathal Carville, Shaun O'Neill, Brendan McArdle, Joe Ireland,

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Queen's defeat Monaghan at Clones
Queen's beat Monaghan 0-10 to 0-09 in Sunday's opening Gaelic Life McKenna Cup game at Clones.
The students displayed the better teamwork and cohesion and ran out deserved one-point winners after leading 0-6 to 0-5 at the interval.

Paul McComiskey top-scored for Queen's with six points, Micheal O'Rourke and Paul McVeigh scored a point apiece and Conor McGinn scored the winning point. Rory Woods accumulated three points for Monaghan. Conor McManus and Thomas Freeman both notched two points.
The game was notable in the fact that no players were booked during the match.

Story from BBC SPORT:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/sport1/hi/northern_ireland/gaelic_games/7165028.stm

Lets hope the grassroots don't hear about that 

[orangeman]

Who was the referee in Clones today ? Apparently he forgot his cards so couldn't book anyone or send them off ! 

[Maguire01]

Was close enough, although Queen's did shoot quite a few wides. To be fair, the Monaghan side was barely recognisable - the lack of Eoin Lennon, Paul Finlay and Dick Clerkin in midfield was a big hole in the team.  Also Tommy Freeman and Gary McQuaid were only introduced in the second half - Tommy was only on for about 15 minutes. There were plenty of wasted opportunities up front.

I think Queen's would be the toughest game in this group and i reckon they could take Antrim and Cavan and top the group now.

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McComiskey the star for hungry QUB
Monday December 31 2007

A sharper, hungrier Queen's University severely dented Monaghan's prospects of qualifying for the play-off stages of the 2008 Gaelic Life- sponsored Dr McKenna Cup when they edged the result in this low-key and at times scrappy affair in Clones yesterday.
Monaghan fielded a largely experimental side but that does not fully explain this below par performance against a Queen's team that showed much more purpose in certain aspects of their play.
Powered by Charlie Vernon in midfield and with Paul McComiskey and Michael Ward causing Monaghan all sorts of problems up front Queen's dictated the trend of this game for long periods. Queen's led at half-time by 0-6 to 0-5, a six minute purple patch seeing them hit four unanswered points to turn a two-point deficit into a two- point lead.

Emphatically

Within eight minutes of the restart Monaghan had regained the lead with points by Dessie Mone and Connor McManus but Queen's struck back emphatically to cancel out that advantage with strikes from man of the match McComiskey and James Loughrey.
Substitute Tomas Freeman brought the sides level for the sixth time in the game with his first point from a free in the 18th minute. Queen's soon reasserted themselves, with points by Conor McGinn and another McComiskey special from a free, putting them two points in front with just three minutes left.
Monaghan threw caution to the wind in the closing minutes but their only reward was another point from a free by Freeman as Queen's held out for the narrowest of wins.

Scorers -- QUB: P McComiskey 0-6, C McGinn 0-1, M O'Rourke, J Loughrey, P McVeigh 0-1each. Monaghan: R Woods 0-3, C McManus 0-2, T Freeman 0-2, V Corey, D Mone 0-1 each.

QUB -- F Murphy; N Bogue, L Howard, P Treanor; R Dillon, A McCrory, J Crozier; C Vernon, P Courtney; A Gallagher, C McGinn, P McVeigh; P McComiskey, M O'Rourke, M Ward. Subs: B Martin for R Dillon, J Loughrey for P McVeigh, J Grimley for M Ward, R O'Neill for C McGinn, D O'Neill for A McCrory.

Monaghan -- P McBennett; M Duffy, C Flanagan, C Hughes; G McEnaney, S Mulligan, S Fitzpatrick; J Kingham, V Corey; O Duffy, C McManus, M Daly; R Woods, D Mone, M McElroy. Subs: G McQuaid for J Kingham, T Freeman for O Duffy, N McAdam for M McElroy, S Markey for M Daly.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/mccomiskey-the-star-for-hungry-qub-1255177.html

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Next game on Thursday night in ballybofey

3rd January 2008  at 20:00     Ballybofey
Jordanstown       V    Donegal