6 Quotes by Michael Monaghan

I am happy with the way the club has managed the issue and I look forward to contributing in a senior role.

I expected it (to lose the captaincy) but I'm definitely disappointed. It's what the club wants and I'll have to get over it. I have a few other challenges this year to worry about like changing positions (from halfback to hooker).

We have got a war going on, and the veterans are returning home in greater numbers than when we didn't have a war. Our veterans have been overseas doing for our protection. ... We would like to see the state of Illinois increase funding for the program.

To start with a performance like that was disappointing.

It wasn't the way I wanted the fight to end. I was fit enough. But I hurt my hand at the end of the fourth and, after that, it became difficult to keep him off.

Any time you captain a club like Manly, with so much history, it is disappointing to lose such a position (captain). It was a job I was pretty proud to have.