It was a formidable first outing for Kieran McGeeney’s facet, with 11 totally different participant registering scores as they breezed previous the Farney males by 12 factors with out getting out of first gear.
Andrew Murnin put the icing on the cake with a rasping purpose proper into the highest nook of the online within the dying embers, his last tally stood at 1-3.
In actuality, the sport was over at half-time regardless of Monaghan’s three second-half two-pointers they had been all the time second finest.
Gabriel Bannigan was with out all however one of many Scotstown contingent after their run to the All-Eire membership semi-final with Ryan O’Toole beginning and by as we speak’s viewing the return of the others cannot come fast sufficient.
It was nip and tuck throughout the primary half of the opening stanza with each side attending to grips with their season opener.
The Orchard County began to interrupt away with three scores with out reply, two from Conor Turbitt and one other from Andrew Murnin opened up a three-point hole.
Monaghan went nearly 10 minutes with out a rating earlier than Dylan Byrne performed an excellent ball inside to search out Karl Gallagher. The previous AFL recruit opting to fist over the bar with a purpose likelihood on.
The proved to be Monaghan’s final rating of the half as Armagh hit six unanswered factors to steer 0-15 to 0-4 on the break, with 9 totally different scorers.
It may have been worse for the Farney males moving into at half-time as their opponents additionally registered seven first half wides.
Armagh managed the tempo of the sport on the second half, and had been unfazed by a pair of Monaghan two-pointers in a matter of minutes from Andrew Woods and Stephen O’Hanlon.
O’Hanlon raised a 3rd orange flag quickly after to slim the hole again right down to eight, however that was nearly as good because it obtained for the house facet.
Murnin completed off a high quality, flowing passing transfer proper into the highest nook so as to add additional gloss to the win, with Armagh working out comfy winners.
