Colm Shalvey reports
Monaghan manager Séamus McEnaney was adamant that his team can still “have a big say” in the championship despite watching their Ulster title hopes slip away with a loss to Derry last Sunday. “We left ourselves with too much to do and in an Ulster championship match, 50-50, you can’t concede three goals and expect to win. We scored 17 points and we would have expected 17 points to win the game for us, but we conceded two very, very soft goals and we’d be disappointed with that.
“We got a reaction and felt if we got the game down to two points with 10 minutes to go we’d have a serious chance of winning, with the momentum. I think we pinned them in for 20- 25 minutes, but we didn’t take our opportunities, they got the (third) goal and that was a huge, huge swing against us. “We’d never question their character; they give me everything all the time but we just never got close enough. We’d be very disappointed; our execution just wasn’t good enough. We felt we could come here to win but we just…
