O’Shea: the onus is on us to perform

PAT O’SHEA (pictured) brings his Munster champions to Croke Park tomorrow for the All-Ireland SFC quarter-final against Monaghan under something of a cloud.

He knows exactly what to expect from the Ulster men, but he can’t be sure about how his own team is going to perform after a six week lay-off.

While this made the management’s job ‘all the harder’, the players did benefit from their involvement in a few rounds of the county championship. With a number of them pushing hard for places, training was especially intense and this level of competitiveness undoubtedly helped.