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[Edit: also mentioned Muldoon getting off with his suspension for county final but thats apparently not decided yet]

Just goes to show you suspensions of county players in Derry club football carry no weight whatsoever.

CCCC and referees authority is laughable at this stage, we are a law onto ourselves in Derry.

Bottom line is, if you are a Derry county player in an end of season game you are free to give a ref a 'bit of a slap' about the face. This is the precedent now set.

Derry Refs and CCCC made to look complete fools.

Edit: also mentioned Muldoon getting off with his suspension for county final but thats apparently not decided yet

But his sending off was very harsh/unfair by all/most accounts was it not?

Whats Paddy Carrs resume like does anyone know??

Banty has been nominated. I must admit I'm not exactly excited by the news.

Wonder will Liam Harnan be nominated after Skrynes triumph. He's pissed on the shoes of the county board in the past though. Also Dudley Farrell will hopefully get a nomination after success with the Minors and at club level with different clubs.

PC doesn't strike me as the kind of guy that would turn Meaths fortunes around, but could be wrong - his club record is decent enough.
I'd laugh, and I think Meath people would cry, if Banty got it!

Farrell or a Harnan would be the best bet for the county IMO - I think someone of their ilk and experience might be what's needed - in fact both together could be the best mix if possible.

Joe Sheridan.

He's done no more than most decent county players. Hardly 'deserves' an AI medal.

Were the interviews last night?

Paddy Carr?
Is that not the equivalent of Tommy Lyons getting the Mayo job?

Oh jesus, do not let Eamonn Barry near the job FFS. 

Why does he divide the counties opinion so much?

So when is this announcement due lads?

Sadly, if it is TL, I can't see TL being anything more than a smaller version of Joe Kernan.

There's been plenty of cases where things happened that were never even in front of a CB's CCCCC

Plenty of rumours linking him to the Meath job.
TBH, I dunno if he's ready for a shot at the big-time yet.

There's no rumours except ones that either he or someone close to him started. Will never happen.

Meath take an outsider? Not a chance.

When is this appointment due to be announced Maguire?

Surely the Derry County board do not have the authority to amend the tariff that is stipulated for offence categories, a shambles if true.

while it is wrong, there are multiple precedents in other counties where the county board have done similar.
Dara O'Se, Corks Frank murphy spring to mind...

Too right

A maximum of two players per county. Anymore would undermine the very nature of intercounty football and the club players in the receiving county.

Yes, good point.
How will it be or how long before it's abused?

What's the odds on Sheridan getting and All Star?

In fairness the neutron diet worked with them because the diets before that were more grain based.

And when I say grain, I mean grain such as barley, mixed with malt, yeast and hops and served in 16oz glasses.

Wow! that's a blast from the past ...!

Someone made money on that one!

How do you expect McElkennon and Grimley to react to the usurping of their golden cow?

More fool me for replying to a moron whose only contribution is to act the troll.

Ffs wise up. Acting indignant about the idea that financial reward may be part (at least) motivation for GAA intercounty trainers is ridiculous.

I would have thought that a key question Banty needs to be asked, whether that be at interview or whereever, is what he is doing to develop the team. Theres no doubting his comitment, his passion etc, the maiin area where he falls down is the fear that he is being too loyal to players that have missed the boat. Surely even Bantys most ardent supporters can see that this is an issue that needs answered. If he is going to go to the well once more, what is making him think this year will be different, because its a big risk - not enough has been done to develop new players, and it will be to Monaghans detriment at some stage. Whether that is deferred (and thus will have greater and longer lasting effect) is the issue. Banty may have deserved loyalty shown for his time at the helm, but I dont think those holding interviews have anything but the best interest of the future of the monaghan team at heart.

Who are the loyal players that he is hanging on to? Who is there that isn't contributing? I'd say that the two oldest players - Damien Freeman and McArdle - still had plenty to give (although they may well bow out now).

And where is all this talent that he needs to develop? He has brought in Colin Walshe, Darren Hughes, Kieran Hughes, Conor McManus - that's almost a third of the team, all of whom are starting 15 and all in their early 20s - and there's another few on the bench. I'm not close the the club scene in the county but i'm not sure there's an abundance of talent out there being ignored.

Ok, fair enough Maguire, fair point - but would you not agree that 4 players (give or take) in 6 years is a poor enough return?
I'm probably much further from Monaghan's club scene than you, but I'd have thought that there must have been one player at least to challenge what has been more or less the exact same midfield pairing over the past 6 years? (That's been the most striking thing about Monaghan's teams over the past few years IMO)

From the outside it seems like Banty has done a great job, and no doubt he has, I just don't see why he's not happy to face the CB down in an interview and perhaps answer a few questions like above?
He could have very legitimate and simple answers.

Like I said, I just can't see why some managers seem unhappy to do interviews to continue in the role - especially when there seems like no other great alternative and their job is 'safe'!

I think you're mixing managing up with coaching

Then can we blame the coach for the flops as well or do we just applaud the coach for the successes?

I think you are the one mixing up roles. Banty is the one who got in the coach and trainer, both of them have no doubt about the manager or maybe they have been well and truly hypnotised by Banty's bluff

Ha ha ... not sure it was the Banty's Bluff that hypnotized either them ... rumours are it was Banty's Bank that did that!

Maybe I am not as cynical as you, or so inclined to make very silly glib remarks
but it would not dawn on me that the integrity of men like Grimley or McElkennon can be bought.

Hypocritical. You made plenty of glib remarks earlier.

And what's integrity got to do with it? You're spouting pure rubbish to think or suggest that money is not the main motivating factor - everyone knows the situation in Monaghan.

Read the posts a bit more carefully.
You are glibly claiming that Grimley and McElkennon's fulsome expressed respect for Banty is motivated by money.
I regard that oft expressed respect from both of them, towards Banty as manager, as genuine.
In particular I regard McElkennon's statement as genuine when he went on record as saying that he would continue with his job in Monaghan as long as Banty would continue as manager.  I also regard the many times Grimley expressed his respect for Banty as manager, as genuine.
Yes, to degrade that expressed respect for Banty as manager by Grimley and McElkennon as motivated by personal gain (coins falling from Banty's pocket) is indeed cynical and attempts to put a slur on the integrity of those 2 men.

Oh thanks for clearing that up. For a minute I thought they were doing it all for free and the good of their health.
So the only reasons they're all with Monaghan and the motivation is all about integrity and respect for the Banty?

Sure. 

Why don't you feck off to some other thread where that type of shite is regarded as regular banter.
You have absolutely nothing to offer here except your innuendoes.
No wonder you don't have a clue about integrity of character.

No one is talking about character, it's just plain common sense - as haranguerer says  quite eloquently "Acting indignant about the idea that financial reward may be part (at least) motivation for GAA intercounty trainers is ridiculous."
Wind yer neck in fool.