Official Cavan GAA Thread

Itchy · May 12, 2018, 01:19:41 PM

Travelling in hope but def not with expectations of a win. There was a lot of negativity around the county before league and we all had to eat humble pie in the end. I'm hoping it's same this time as the run up has been totally negative so ideal preparation for the team. Then you have Martin McHugh blowing shite about the great players in Donegal - so we always have hope. We will need big games from all our lads, Gearoid will have to rediscover his form.

U17s with a game tonight too so hopefully they can do the business too.

Itchy · May 12, 2018, 07:29:32 PM

Minors into semi with tough win over Fermanagh.

mrdeeds · May 13, 2018, 10:51:48 PM

That was poor. Watched game back there again. Donegal u17s were bigger than our seniors. I said to person beside me our warm up was terrible. No intensity compared to Donegal. They were huge beside our lads. Our strength and conditioning needs to be questioned. Some lads who've being on panel for years are still not filled out. As for the game we were turned over for 1 5 in first half. Bradley and Caoimhin bet their men well in first half. Mad decision taking Caoimhin off which was not the first time that's happened. Killian Clarke tried hard and Gearoid too. Mackey tried to make things happen. Oisin Kiernan kick passing good and got on a lot of ball. Ado showed well when he came home. Gunner started well but then stupid yellow. No need to risk McVeety. Galliagan saved us aswell. No defensive structure at all and a lot of points kicked under no pressure. Also obvious no kick out strategy while Donegal always looked to create a free man or mismatch. Murphy is a joy to watch.

Itchy · May 14, 2018, 12:39:37 PM

Well that was a depressing match. Depressing in how far behind our players are versus theirs in pace, strength and know how. We beat many of there lads at U21 and now they look like giants compared to us.
Depressing as there was no defensive system in place. I mean I understand that we are trying to develop attack wise but we have to have a way to get ourselves back into a formation and have a plan of pressing Donegal players. It just looked so amateur.
Depressing that our attack was at a snails pace and totally reliant of Mackey, Caoimhin etc to come deep and beat two men to create an overlap. Donegal were so much more clever than us, always looping around and powerfully running from deep.
Depressing that hardly any support traveled.

So where to from here? There are big sharks swimming in the back door. The problem is we need a defensive system which we once had but now has been torn up. We need to work on one quickly but I dont think 4 weeks is enough to do that.

scoopmine · May 14, 2018, 12:48:05 PM

Watching Micheal Murphy was a pleasure yesterday but as a Cavan man why was he unmarked the majority of the time. When the two sides huddled before throw in it looked like a minor team v a senior match. Turnover of players is a huge problem but the men playing yday gave their all and hopefully with a good draw we can progress. Hard to rate management.

Itchy · May 17, 2018, 04:05:48 PM

Was listening to the wearecavan podcast yesterday. It made for interesting listening but it was pretty depressing. Paul Fitz had a suggestion to get an independent person to go interview the lads who are not on the panel, the huge amount of players who do not want to or cannot play for us. See what the cause is and what could be done. I think that was a really good idea. We have no chance to survive in Div 1 next year unless we can get the best players in Cavan pulling together. It is really sad to think a county with our history and football heritage cannot get our best players out to the extent that people from the county wont even bother go to watch them.

The comparison made to Monaghan, a smaller county with a lesser heritage, was stark. They don't lose players.

mrdeeds · May 17, 2018, 09:25:46 PM

Mattie reckons Dara should get the team ready for the qualifiers.

Itchy · May 17, 2018, 09:58:33 PM

Quote from: mrdeeds on May 17, 2018, 09:25:46 PM
Mattie reckons Dara should get the team ready for the qualifiers.

Thought that was a joke. Matty getting well paid to get players up for the matches.

Westside · May 18, 2018, 01:14:12 PM

What about not allowing the vice captain to captain the team when Dara was out? A disgrace and a serious insult to Ciaran Brady, a lad who lives for Cavan football.

Mattie should go lads. We're a shadow of the 2016 side both in terms of personnel and performances.

We didn't do well in the championship under Terry but we never went out as meekly as we did last Sunday.

Itchy · May 18, 2018, 02:36:29 PM

Quote from: Westside on May 18, 2018, 01:14:12 PM
What about not allowing the vice captain to captain the team when Dara was out? A disgrace and a serious insult to Ciaran Brady, a lad who lives for Cavan football.

Mattie should go lads. We're a shadow of the 2016 side both in terms of personnel and performances.

We didn't do well in the championship under Terry but we never went out as meekly as we did last Sunday.

Its hard to know. The question is whether the lads wont join the panel as its Matty in charge or whether the lads are a useless shower and Matty done very well to get us to Div 1. I think either way he will get another year based on the promotion.

mrdeeds · May 18, 2018, 02:50:02 PM

Quote from: Westside on May 18, 2018, 01:14:12 PM
What about not allowing the vice captain to captain the team when Dara was out? A disgrace and a serious insult to Ciaran Brady, a lad who lives for Cavan football.

Mattie should go lads. We're a shadow of the 2016 side both in terms of personnel and performances.

We didn't do well in the championship under Terry but we never went out as meekly as we did last Sunday.

There a reason why he wasn't captain.

Itchy · May 18, 2018, 03:03:51 PM

Quote from: mrdeeds on May 18, 2018, 02:50:02 PM
Quote from: Westside on May 18, 2018, 01:14:12 PM
What about not allowing the vice captain to captain the team when Dara was out? A disgrace and a serious insult to Ciaran Brady, a lad who lives for Cavan football.

Mattie should go lads. We're a shadow of the 2016 side both in terms of personnel and performances.

We didn't do well in the championship under Terry but we never went out as meekly as we did last Sunday.

There a reason why he wasn't captain.

Is that a question or statement?

Duckquay · May 18, 2018, 04:01:50 PM

And then he goes and schedules training Sunday morning before the league games at 1.30.

mrdeeds · May 18, 2018, 04:03:26 PM

Quote from: Itchy on May 18, 2018, 03:03:51 PM
Quote from: mrdeeds on May 18, 2018, 02:50:02 PM
Quote from: Westside on May 18, 2018, 01:14:12 PM
What about not allowing the vice captain to captain the team when Dara was out? A disgrace and a serious insult to Ciaran Brady, a lad who lives for Cavan football.

Mattie should go lads. We're a shadow of the 2016 side both in terms of personnel and performances.

We didn't do well in the championship under Terry but we never went out as meekly as we did last Sunday.

There a reason why he wasn't captain.

Is that a question or statement?

Sorry should have read there is a reason why he was not captain.

Westside · May 19, 2018, 01:46:00 PM

Quote from: mrdeeds on May 18, 2018, 04:03:26 PM
Quote from: Itchy on May 18, 2018, 03:03:51 PM
Quote from: mrdeeds on May 18, 2018, 02:50:02 PM
Quote from: Westside on May 18, 2018, 01:14:12 PM
What about not allowing the vice captain to captain the team when Dara was out? A disgrace and a serious insult to Ciaran Brady, a lad who lives for Cavan football.

Mattie should go lads. We're a shadow of the 2016 side both in terms of personnel and performances.

We didn't do well in the championship under Terry but we never went out as meekly as we did last Sunday.

There a reason why he wasn't captain.

Is that a question or statement?

Sorry should have read there is a reason why he was not captain.

Oh really? I'd be very surprised if it was any sort of disciplinary issue. Can you say what it is?