PETER Duffy has been included in the Monaghan side to face Derry at Celtic Park on Sunday.
There had been doubts about the full-forward’s fitness during the week, but he will line out on the edge of the square in tomorrow’s replay.
Monaghan have left one position vacant. The ubiquitous AN Other has been named at right corner forward, a result of Dermot McArdle switching to the right half-back to replace the suspended Joe Coyle.
Stephen McGinnity takes over from McArdle in the half-forward line, and the Drumhowan man’s No 13 jersey has been left unmanned. The full starting fifteen won’t be named until just before the throw-in.
Frank McEnaney has a new partner in midfield with Colin McCaul, who came on as a sub in Clones, getting the nod for his first championship start.
Mark Daly, who moved to midfield in the second half starts again on the 40. The injured Declan Smyth is unlikely to play any part, despite the vacancy in the forward line.
Monaghan: G Murphy, E Murphy, D Duffy, N Marron, D McArdle, G McGurk, J Conlon, F McEnaney, C McCaul, G Flanagan, M Daly, S McGinnity, A N Other, P Duffy, D McKernan
Subs: M Thompson, P McShane, A Tavey, P McDonald, D Loughman, C McAree, B Morgan, V Martin, C Ronaghan.
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ALL-Ireland Senior B winners Fermanagh enter the shooting gallery tomorrow aiming to strike a blow for the unfashionables.
Rory and Raymond Gallagher, two of the provinces finest young forwards, will be looked at to help fire Fermanagh’s bid to upset the odds quoted on a Cavan victory.
It is arguably the first time in nearly two decades that any Fermanagh team entering the Championship against one of the fancied few has merited a second thought.
Derry and Down fell under their spell in the early 1980s, Antrim twice in the early 1990s, and Armagh should have fallen to them too on a couple of occasions but for infamous collapses when leading by the proverbial mile.
In only two of those games were they cautiously favoured to win. The rest were on-the-day upsets and near things as the kind of Championship outsider all neutrals couldn’t see winning but hoped could spring a surprise.
Fermanagh are again underdogs this weekend, but with a difference. There appears an exciting sense of expectation about their match-winning potential.
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FOOTBALL chiefs will spend the next 12 months deciding on the best way to embrace the brave new world forged by the controversial Bosman ruling.
Yesterday’s Premier League meeting in Stratford ended with an acknowledgement that the transfer system must be overhauled following last December’s European Court of Justice declaration that the existing regulations were illegal.
Now the aim is to plot a path through the minefield of potential problems without undermining clubs’ incentives to implement the youth training programmes that nurture homegrown talent of the future.
“It was recognised that there is a need for change in the transfer system and that it is important to move as quickly as possible towards bringing in that change,” said Premier League spokesman Mike Lee.
