Monaghan

I got on the way home.

Maybe in Monaghan I got a phone call.

Do you have a passport? I said, I do.

Right, that's fine.

yeah I think the one of the key issues that they're going to come up against is the comparison to the Gaelic football rules as well and the expectations that because we changed the rules in Gaelic football and this worked then it's absolutely going to work in Hurling as well where that might not necessarily be the case and I do think that with the Gaelic football rules um One of the biggest successes has been not intentionally leveling the playing field, but literally leveling the playing field because of the two-point rule and the ability for teams to mount a comeback in the second half.

It did lead to the likes of Louth and Monaghan and these teams that weren't far off the top.

but and Westmeath of course they weren't far off the top but they probably weren't at the top table at the times but we saw then like Cork beating Donegal there was plenty of upsets throughout the summer championship so it did give the ability to level the playing field a little bit I don't know if these rules necessarily do that for Hurling because you don't really have that element of the two point rule

to do that yeah exactly the two point rule I think not that it's a leveler but teams can target it it

changes the way teams approach games instead of it being a case of we need to limit what the other team do it's a case of we need to go out there and do as much as we can as quickly as we can to get them on the back foot

and it opened up the potential because all of these teams like the Westmeaths or the Corks or Monaghan or Louth they all had individual stars all the time but the problem was you couldn't get the best out of them because Their teams were playing defensively, or you could just isolate them in terms of marking them.

Whereas with the two-point rule and with the various different keep the three men up, it left those star players space to do what they could do.

And then that automatically brings the team's level up because you're able to get the best out of your best players.

yeah yeah

and then all the boys were slagging me for buying a Saab 93 and two of the lads from Monaghan knew the car and told me I shouldn't have bought

it yeah

and then I had to go for lunch and then the power steering just stopped working

Yeah, like it was a solid car, but I think it just, like your man that owned it, I think just, I think he bought different cars and kind of got forgotten about.

It had been rallied.

Oh yeah, but that was known as one of the quickest cars in Monaghan

for a long time.

So, like, I really struggle with...

Galway were knocked out in the quarter final that's a long time ago and for the process to go on as long as it has and it's the same with Monaghan Monaghan were beaten also in the quarter final the previous day it's a long long time to you know be beaten around the bush maybe those managements will be planning for next year maybe not but now they're starting at zero and in both counties cases it definitely looks like there's no obvious like ticket here together like there's no it's not this is going to be the ticket that's going to bring it forward so it You're kind of behind the eight ball a small bit.

And I know it's only September, but as I say, all the chief counties, the big counties are all well underway to plan for next year already.

No, it's not the way to do business.

It's not a league.

If it was a league base, he probably would have had a couple at this stage because they were very consistent in the National League.

Like I went to see them different times when they were playing Monaghan.

And I was like, that's why I would have backed them a lot because I seen them and I was like, Jesus, these boys are good.

Please send in your tributes and messages of support to Katie Taylor ahead of her fight as well this evening.

Love to get your thoughts on Katie and Monaghan's finest.

Shane Hammond joins me for the news round.

Good afternoon, Shane.

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Gabriel Banigan is the outgoing Monaghan manager.

And yeah, I was quite surprised last week when we spoke about it in the news round last weekend, how I was surprised that his tenure was ending and he was stepping aside because he felt goalposts had moved at county board level and he wasn't getting the backing that he had had six weeks previous.