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Massive win for Cullyhanna today v Liatroim. Sad to see Armagh abusing the system and senior team playing intermediate but thats what Cavan Club teams are up against.

I for one will be supporting Ballyhaise the underdog in the final.

Ballyhaise 1 14
Glenuillin 1 13

Great result for Ballyhaise. I know they were up against it playing a Senior Team, which makes the achievement all the more remarkable.

If league and championship were linked in Cavan and they were to send the best team in Division 3 as alot of people on here argue.That would have been either Denn or Drumgoon.

Not sure about Drumgoon but there's definitively an argument to be made that Denn are a better team than Arva and themselves won Ulster Junior 2 years ago.

And got to a Intermediate final this year.

Fair play to Arva. Should be able to consolidate as a solid intermediate team in Cavan for the next few years.  Holla unquestionably man of the match, fantastic performance.

You'd expect Arva to be able to stay up in intermediate. Unless they take Blackhill's approach and get relegated again and look for a handy championship.

Perhaps a 2025 Ulster Junior Final of Arva v Blackhill could be on the cards again.

Fair play to Arva. Should be able to consolidate as a solid intermediate team in Cavan for the next few years.  Holla unquestionably man of the match, fantastic performance.

He's a hardy bit of stuff

Arva come out on top 13-6. Fantastic achievement from a small club hemmed in on the Leitrim/Longford border.

Arva 6-2 up at HT without setting the world alight. Blackhill very strong in the tackle but struggling to get scoring opportunities.

Bookies must have been swayed by all the 'Arva are division 1' chat in here

Apologies I typed that out wrong they're 21/10 so more that 2/1.

Black hill 21/20 with the bookies.

An opportunity to make a few pound there.

Bet responsibly of course.

This weeks predictions;

Senior
Trillick (Tyrone) v Scotstown (Monaghan) - Scotstown by 4
Glen (Derry) v Glenties (Donegal) - Glen by 2

Intermediate
Ballyhaise (Cavan) v Glenullin (Derry) - Ballyhaise by 6
Liatroim (Down) v St Patricks (Armagh) - Cullyhanna by 7

Junior
Blackhill (Monaghan) v Arva (Cavan) - Blackhill by 5

Anyone else?

All fair points, alot of which are applicable to Arva.

One bad year relegated them to junior, due to injuries and players away.

And even when they got their act together they still couldn't win junior but got promoted in a diluted division 2.

It's surely to be one of the highest quality Ulster Junior finals, I'd still have Black Hill as slight favourites though.

This is Blackhill's 3rd Ulster Junior Club final in  8 years.

Do they deliberately get relegated just to get a handy championship win.

This should be questioned more than the fact Arva are a division 1 side?

I personally will be supporting the underdogs Arva this weekend.

I understand your argument that it takes more effort to promote hurling due to the unique skills of the game and helmets hurls etc.

But that is not a slight on Gaelic Football.

There's a reason soccer is the most popular sport in the world; because its the simplest game in the world; but can also be the most skillful at the highest level.

I don't know much about Hurling but it looked to me like Clonlara get through that games on pure luck; they didn't take advantage of the two extra men at all.

I only seen the period they were 2 men up so forgive my ignorance of the first 40 plus minutes of the game.

Too much made of Arva being in Division 1. League football isn't taken serious in Cavan. Knockbride are in Division 1 next year and Junior Championship. Killygarry are Senior and in Division 2.

Blackhill hammered the Down champions and are hammering the Tyrone champions,. they won Ulster in 2019.

Killygarry a top 4 or 5 side in Cavan too