'Unbelievable' - Monaghan react to wild extra-time win over Derry

Jack McCarron forced extra-time with a two-point sideline effort [Getty Images]

Speaking to BBC Sport NI's Mark Sidebottom, heroic Monaghan goalkeeper Rory Beggan on whether he expected his side to make an Ulster final:

"If you'd asked us a couple of weeks ago, probably not, but we just knuckled down. It couldn't get much worse [after the relegation] but we just put the heads down."

On urging referee Noel Mooney to restart the game after the hooter sounded before Monaghan could take their sideline ball at the end of normal time:

"I just said 'when the ball's dead before the hooter you have a chance' so he corrected himself. Big Davy Garland helped him as well."

On his two-point free at the end of extra-time to seal victory:

"We've won nothing. We have an Ulster final to play now in Clones. First time since 2015 that we are back in Clones on Ulster final day. That kick just gets us there. There are bigger ones to hit in the final."

David Garland, reflecting on the victory:

"It's an unbelievable feeling. The first half didn't go our way but we went in at half-time and said 'let's give it a shot'. We said all week it's about the team."

On confronting Noel Mooney at the end of normal time:

"I'm saying to him 'the rule is it's a set-piece, I think you can change the decision so I'll take the credit for that one! The hooter rule was changed. The hooter can go and we get a shot."

On the Ulster final:

"Listen, we'll take whoever it is, Down or Armagh. Nothing will change. We'll keep training hard and prepare the best we can."

On McCarron and Beggan:

"They're both dead-ball specialists, no matter where it is on the field. All we were doing was looking at the clock and hoping the hooter would go and it did."

Jack McCarron on his two-pointer to force extra-time:

"A similar thing happened in the Ulster Championship against Donegal last year. A few of the Derry players were coming over to shake our hands. It was a bit demoralising but we got an opportunity to hit it.

"The rule was changed. There was no point getting the two-pointer and then going back out and losing in extra-time, so we had to calm down in the dressing room and go after it again."