Conor McCarthy's switch to the Monaghan defence has added another dimension to their game.
A CLIP OF fan footage from the preliminary quarter-final between Monaghan and Kildare captures the patience and precision of Conor McCarthy’s winning point.
And then the break comes. Substitute Kieran Hughes offloads the ball to Jack McCarron who hits a pass to Sean Jones out on the off the inside of his left boot. Jones throws his fist up to signal a mark but the referee doesn’t permit it. Ending that five-year wait for a quarter-final was one of the first things McCarthy mentioned to the media when the microphones were turned on to pour over his heroics. He was wearing number seven on his back for that game, and the wing back position has been his home on the team of late. But when he first broke into the Monaghan seniors, McCarthy was operating the forwards.
“But in the last year or two, I know Banty [Seamus McEnaney] would have tried him out as a back and then an attacking wing-back. He would have been given the freedom to go forward. And that was his purpose in the team. It wasn’t so much to be chasing back. Walshe remembers the last time Doohamlet faced Scotstown, and the imprint that McCarthy left on the game.“He’s one of the most dangerous in Monaghan football. He tends to play for Scotstown in the corner or in very close to goal because they probably don’t need him out the field as much. That’s where he really is at his most dangerous in club football.
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