By Sean Casey
While Monagan has lost their two meetings in the League this season, SharpShooter Nialall Garland insists that they are not yet panicked and work hard to improve their results.
Louth and Fermanagh received one over their Farney rivals at the beginning of the Division Four campaign, but Monagan is eager to bounce when they take Warwickshire on clones this weekend.
“We had a difficult start, but it’s not panic stations,” Garland said. “They were two difficult games and we still received many of them. There is nothing earned in February so you can take what you can and have something to do.
“The likes of our discipline need to be improved and our rate of evaluation needs to be improved, but we have turned to these problems right away and Saturday is another chance to repair them and this is another step in the trip.”
Warwickshire is yet to win a game, losing twice and drawing once, but hit six goals in their three games. Their ability to evaluate the goals is not lost by Garland, who insists that Monagan will have to expose her weaknesses.
“Like all English teams, they are obviously good, but they are very difficult to analyze,” he added. “Their team can change many year to year, so it’s hard to judge, but they are always physical and always strong.
“They are always crazy for the purposes, which is something we need to be careful about. Along with our attempts to get results, we must be careful about the threat they represent at the other end of the pitch.
“They are big men, which is a bit unlike us, we would be mostly small and they usually use it to their advantage. They use their power; They have good runners coming from deep as Jack Grilish, I think he’s in the midfielder this year.
“He has been there for several years and is a serious player for them.
“They know how to use their strengths and the fact that they have scored so many goals and have not yet been won, we must be sure that we are stopping their strengths, but we have to punish them too.
“It seems that there is a little weakness in their team in terms of retreat, so we have to be sure that we are working on this weakness and developing our own confidence in front of the goal.”