Kerry v Monaghan part 2

[comethekingdom]

Must say I am nervous about this game - Monaghan quietly confident but would you blame them? However Kerry know what to expect this year and have no excuse to be caught cold. We need a  big performance from Dara and our midfield otherwise Clerkin, Lennon and co will clean us out and the Twin tower threat will be all folly.
Fingers crossed for Sunday!

[donelli]

Nerves are starting, especially after watching the start of the 4 games on tv there. This time tomarrow will be in my seat (or take someone else's!) in the cusack getting ready to support the oriel men.

hope monaghan do it, but i dont know. i fear the kerry backlash from the munster final. think monaghan could win by 1- pts, but with the calibre of the kerry forwards there's always the dirty possibility of losing by 10

we also have to now consider how good/bad ulster is after that down performance...is that just down as we have known them in the qualifiers to date or a truer portrayal of the level football is at in ulster..??/


COME ON MONAGHAN

[Main Street]

Twin tower threat will be all folly.

The Twin Tower analogy doesn't look to be the most auspicious, has a portent of inevitable doom written all over it.


Gary McQuaid not fit enough to start,
the Monaghan team has been announced, the continuity team.

P McBennett, D Mone, JP Mone, D McArdle, D Freeman, V Corey, D Hughes, E Lennon, P Finlay, D Clerkin, S Gollogly, C McManus, C Hanratty, R Woods, T Freeman.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2008/0802/monaghan.html

[donelli]

Twin tower threat will be all folly.

The Twin Tower analogy doesn't look to be the most auspicious, has a portent of inevitable doom written all over it.


Gary McQuaid not fit enough to start,
the Monaghan team has been announced, the continuity team.

P McBennett, D Mone, JP Mone, D McArdle, D Freeman, V Corey, D Hughes, E Lennon, P Finlay, D Clerkin, S Gollogly, C McManus, C Hanratty, R Woods, T Freeman.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/championship/2008/0802/monaghan.html

Banty will never start with that line up. He always makes a change somewhere before throw-in. McQuaid will probably get the nod.I hope he regains his form.

i am led to believe that ronaghan is once again available after his injury.

[Oriel Man]

.......we also have to now consider how good/bad ulster is after that down performance...is that just down as we have known them in the qualifiers to date or a truer portrayal of the level football is at in ulster..??/...

I don't know what it can tell us about Ulster football..... we know Wexford is good, they beat Fermanagh to Div 3 title.
I think the big thing it does tell us is how Good Dublin is this year..... At the moment my €€€ is on them for Sam.
(also have a few bob on Monaghan of course - one of theses years I'll recoup all the money i have lost over the years  )

[magickingdom]

.......we also have to now consider how good/bad ulster is after that down performance...is that just down as we have known them in the qualifiers to date or a truer portrayal of the level football is at in ulster..??/...

I don't know what it can tell us about Ulster football..... we know Wexford is good, they beat Fermanagh to Div 3 title.
I think the big thing it does tell us is how Good Dublin is this year..... At the moment my €€€ is on them for Sam.
(also have a few bob on Monaghan of course - one of theses years I'll recoup all the money i have lost over the years  )

you really should put some of your money on kerry, they have a long history of winning the thing. dublin and monaghan have a lot of memories of losing to get over 

[orangeman]

Kerry 1/3 - Monaghan 3/1


3/1 is too big so GET ON !!!!!!!

good odds on monaghan that, did i see 16/1 for a mayo/monaghan double this w/e. quite simply i think if dara doesnt have one of his better games kerry are in trouble. mayo have pulled one over on tyrone before..

It could have happened today but again Mayo fell short. 

[Oriel Man]

.......we also have to now consider how good/bad ulster is after that down performance...is that just down as we have known them in the qualifiers to date or a truer portrayal of the level football is at in ulster..??/...

I don't know what it can tell us about Ulster football..... we know Wexford is good, they beat Fermanagh to Div 3 title.
I think the big thing it does tell us is how Good Dublin is this year..... At the moment my €€€ is on them for Sam.
(also have a few bob on Monaghan of course - one of theses years I'll recoup all the money i have lost over the years  )

you really should put some of your money on kerry, they have a long history of winning the thing. dublin and monaghan have a lot of memories of losing to get over 

True, but that wouldn't be any fun!!!

[Hardy]

I can't wait for this one. Today we (and he) will find out if the greatest midfielder of his generation can drive his team to one more All-Ireland or whether he has reached the end of the road. It's a fascinating prospect that will keep us glued to our chairs for a couple of hours. The essence of sport.

[stew]

I can't wait for this one. Today we (and he) will find out if the greatest midfielder of his generation can drive his team to one more All-Ireland or whether he has reached the end of the road. It's a fascinating prospect that will keep us glued to our chairs for a couple of hours. The essence of sport.

Eh McGrane doesnt play for a while yet.

C'mon Monaghan. I think this game will be a cracker, it would nearly need to be given the dirge served up so far this weekend.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

I can't wait for this one. Today we (and he) will find out if the greatest midfielder of his generation can drive his team to one more All-Ireland or whether he has reached the end of the road. It's a fascinating prospect that will keep us glued to our chairs for a couple of hours. The essence of sport.

This one's a sumptuous prospect indeed, after the damp squib of a 'curtain-raiser'. Only a fool would write off Kerry, but I still feel there's the marking of an epoch in this game.

[DUBSFORSAM1]

Based on the Down/Fermanagh performances it is a worry that Monaghan might be nowhere near as good as their victories over Derry/Donegal seem especially as both have been due to being dominated totally in midfield...

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Down produced their worst performance of the year yesterday, eclipsing that of theirs against Armagh. But maybe Fermanagh's wretchedness just exposes how poor Armagh really are, in having to take them to a replay to dispose of them 

[armaghniac]

Fermanagh came back in the first Ulster final by playing out of their skins against an Armagh that had eased up somewhat. It is not easy to maintain that workrate, Fermanagh didn't reach that hell for leather pace today.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Fermanagh came back in the first Ulster final by playing out of their skins against an Armagh that had eased up somewhat. It is not easy to maintain that workrate, Fermanagh didn't reach that hell for leather pace today.

Hook, line, and...                                                     sinker!