Stephen Kernan Ruled Out for weeks!

[Bainisteoir]

Stephen Kernan has undergone knee surgery and has been ruled out of Armagh's All-Ireland football qualifier against Monaghan

Kernan had a segment cartilage removed from his knee and is likely to be sidelined for a number of weeks.

Peter McDonnell stated "Stephen had a segment of cartilage and bone floating around in his knee joint."

"This is not arrogance, but it really was totally irrelevant who we drew because what we want to address is within our own group," McDonnell expects Charlie Vernon back from a broken jaw for the July 4 clash.

"We feel strongly that we let Tyrone off the hook because we didn't do the things we said we'd do. That was through no-one's fault but our own.

"In a way, we are glad it's Monaghan because that provides us with a big challenge."

[stew]

Well thats a ballix! Kernan is going to be missed against Monaghan and I hope that vernon is going to be back for the game on July the fourth, we seem to be destined for a short championship season as things are going against us a bit but hopefully the boys can get it done against what i consider to be a really strong Monaghan outfit.