Plenty of ‘game time’ for fringe players
With the 2019 Bank of Ireland Dr. McKenna Cup up and running before the new Year, Monaghan rounded off the calendar year with a 13th win from 20 fixtures at the expense of Antrim in Clones last saturday. Just one player made his senior inter-county debut, namely Jamie Walshe, but it was still a much-changed Monaghan team, which showed nine changes from august’s All Ireland SFC semi-final against Tyrone.
It was a low number of newcomers for a McKenna Cup game – on the same weekend that Donegal fielded without a single debutant against Queen’s – but several fringe players made their case for further involvement, albeit against a similarly experimental Antrim side. Chief among those was Micheál…
