Down football is in a bad place and Ross Carr doesn’t hold out any hope of his native county upsetting the odds against Monaghan at Clones on Saturday.
Shock results are most often produced in the northern province. The Mournemen ousted Monaghan in the Ulster Semi-final in 2017 before losing to the same opposition in the Qualifiers following their provincial final loss to Tyrone.
Not even mention of Cavan’s famous 2020 triumph stirs the optimist in Carr, despite the similarity of the Breffnimen suffering relegation to Division Three before that season’s Championship.
