We had the game won and we gave it away, admits McEneaney

Did Monaghan blow it, or were Down just too good in the second half? Eamonn McEneaney reckoned he knew the answer.

“The reality is that we had the game won and we gave it to them,” he said. “We dropped back and let them come on to us. We took pot-shots at times in the second half when we should have been doing what we were doing in the first half, laying the ball off to the shooter and let him put it over the bar.

“You get days like this but for Monaghan they are too frequent. Glorious defeats are no good.”