Monaghan can make breakthrough, says McEneaney

MONAGHAN manager Seamus McEneaney believes Ulster football needs a changing of the guard after years of dominance by Armagh and Tyrone and he feels his own county is primed to make the step up.

The ‘Big Two’ have treated the province as their own personal property in recent times, sharing the last nine titles between them. It is 19 years since Monaghan themselves have won the Anglo-Celt Cup or even contested the final.

But now with Armagh already facing the qualifiers, Tyrone hamstrung by injury and Donegal yet to prove their summer credentials, the battle for Ulster’s throne is more uncertain than at any time since the mid-1990s.