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People are already telling us we had a good year in 2018 because we made an All-Ireland semi-final. We had never been there before but it doesn’t matter much when you lose. No, it doesn’t feel like a good year.
Now, it was of course. But I just want to get back playing, rules or not, September football or not, because we have unfinished business. We’ve left a few Ulster titles behind.
The new championship format worked very well. It felt like two seasons. You reach the Super 8s and it starts all over again. We had some journey. Squeezing past Kildare in Croke Park, almost breaking Kerry up in Clones was special, the ending aside, but Galway on a sunny Saturday evening was something to cherish because we had to perform. Everything was on the line and we delivered.
The races were on in Ballybrit. Thousands of Monaghan people made the journey. My former employers had me involved in a horse syndicate. It ran on the Wednesday evening at 6.10pm – Rovetta, a 33/1 shot trained by Jessica Harrington. Missed some craic that evening but I had to go training. Malachy was straight over to see how we did.
“Aye, we won.”
And, a few days later, we won again.
A week pbaded and Monaghan hardly entered the unknown. It would have been great to bring our people into September. Even early September. But we’ll go again.
After four years living in Dublin I’m back up home having started a business. No more strain on the body from those long drives.
Yeah, hopefully, all of us will go again.
Conor,
October 2018.
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