Monaghan return to Croker with a spring in their step

WE are down to the last 10 in the All-Ireland SFC and of the four teams running onto Croke Park this afternoon, you would have expected three of them to be around at this stage of the summer.

The exceptions of course, are Monaghan, the surprise packages through this year's back door.

Although they shocked Meath with a last-minute goal in the NFL Division Two final, few outside the Farney camp would have thought Seamus McEnaney's side would have progressed this far.