Replying To Monaghan37: "McBennett head and shoulders above him as is Leonard from Eire Og. Connolly from Kilanny. Hanratty from Blayney. Beggan from Clones."
McBennett, Leonard from Eire Og. Connolly from Kilanny - all yes have potential to play county. Very dangerous at club level. Clearly some the best players on the pitch when they play for their clubs.
Hanratty from Blayney and Beggan from Clones, not in the same league. Both can be negated at club level to a large extent.
As for Deadballmerchant... Players need a year or maybe two years to physically get up to speed. That should be obvious when you see the conditioning of intercounty players. I don't just mean the Monaghan lads that come back to their clubs but if you look at the size of some of the Donegal lads for example. They are monsters.
McBennett and Leonard have been on the panel a few years but don't seem to have come through. Only Vinny Corey and Bannigan can answer to that.
Would McBennett start in midfield for Scotstown? No chance, so he's not going to start for Monaghan.
McBennett I'm sure is a good lad but he's not any better than what we had lined out against Donegal so he isn't fixing our problem.
Theres a trend with names being thrown around on this, they play intermediate or juniors, of course they look like rockstars every weekend playing against lads just there to get outta the house for a few hours a week.
Replying To MonaghanMan44life: "Would McBennett start in midfield for Scotstown? No chance, so he's not going to start for Monaghan.
McBennett I'm sure is a good lad but he's not any better than what we had lined out against Donegal so he isn't fixing our problem.
Theres a trend with names being thrown around on this, they play intermediate or juniors, of course they look like rockstars every weekend playing against lads just there to get outta the house for a few hours a week."
McBennett would 100% start for scotstown would you wise up!!
Replying To MonaghanMan44life: "Would McBennett start in midfield for Scotstown? No chance, so he's not going to start for Monaghan.
McBennett I'm sure is a good lad but he's not any better than what we had lined out against Donegal so he isn't fixing our problem.
Theres a trend with names being thrown around on this, they play intermediate or juniors, of course they look like rockstars every weekend playing against lads just there to get outta the house for a few hours a week."
Mc Bennett is a different type of footballer to the two lads who are big stong workhorses, he is more of a langan type player.
Replying To updafaughs: "Just an opinion on watching Blayney play both Harps and Donaghmoyne. Blayney a really young inexperienced team so it may be a little early for them but can definitely see them being a force at senior level in 5 years"
That's exactly how I see the harps. Going very well with a player or two to come back in as well, intermediate seems to be wide open and the most competitive of all 3 divisions.
Something nobody is mentioning is that we dont have a dirty ball winner ie jinxsy malone k o connell as were to nice on dirty ball every team needs 1 or 2 and this was the platform for our 2013 ulster title but going back to the midfield options tradionally monaghan don't stick with tall rangey players and don't get the same chances as 5 ft nothing players if you look at armagh they stick with there tall players and condition them into players that on the croke Park semis and finals can stick the pace like 2024 I think monaghan could have developed and given the likes of mcbennett more game time to develop and condition him could take 3 to 5 yearsto reap the benefits , rory kavanagh from donegal was a whippet when mcguinnes came in the door in 2011 and was a real handful by 2013 so it does pay off in the long run tall players in monaghan are rare and we should value them all and not knock them whether there playing for the county or not michael mccarville had a great year and hopefully he can step it up and good luck to him I think the net could be wider to capture 6 ft plus players look at meath derry galway kerry as midfield is massive now but also but you can't make what we don't have