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#1
GAA Discussion / Re: Division 2 2024
February 17, 2024, 05:53:34 PM
Absolutely made up Cavan bagged the two points there. So much the better we had to dig it out, too often we wilt when the fat's in the fire.

If we keep the heads in the next few weeks it could end up a great league for the relegation favourites.
#2
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
January 28, 2024, 06:06:14 PM
Didn't see it but reading between the lines of comments and reports, key takeaways are that we're trying to attack a bit instead of the listless metronomic shuffleball we'd resorted to under Graham; by all accounts we defended resolutely away from home; we've two points banked at the first time of asking under a rookie manager, in a division where round one results suggest the going will be very hot and heavy betimes.

The team was always likely to be amped up for the first game and Donegal next weekend at Breffni is a huge step up, but you'd happily go along to support any team that gives it a lash and dies with its boots on. I think that's the minimum requirement for fans.

Well done to the players and management, something we can build on and a small bit of positivity about the place at last is a refreshing change of outlook.
#3
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
December 01, 2023, 06:29:06 PM
Well lads, any news leaking out about the new county setup yet? Any additions, subtraction, losses, gains or new developments?
#4
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
October 22, 2023, 02:47:42 PM
Quote from: Itchy on October 21, 2023, 06:05:11 PMWell that's a shocking draw for Cavan in Ulster. I don't recall ever seeing a worse one.
Absolute nightmare.

We've had our fair share of soft ones too, tbf. The only good thing is that, if it wasn't the case already, it will really focus minds on the league and the need to hit the ground running in Division 2 to secure a run in the Sam Maguire. After that, anything we do in the Ulster SFC is a nice bonus.
#5
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
August 24, 2023, 08:44:43 AM
A bit of a leap of faith is a good way to look at it. Some interesting backroom names there, hopefully they're on the ticket for the longer term and not just intercounty tourists.

Raymond has a big job ahead of him with very little experience but the people around him should help there. You couldn't be overly confident but of course we wish him the best of luck. As the fella says, a few decent early league results would get people onside and build momentum.
#6
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
August 23, 2023, 09:13:08 PM
Raymond Galligan is the new senior team manager.


Discuss.
#7
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
August 02, 2023, 03:05:41 PM
Down's Danny Hughes has put himself forward for the job, the Celt has revealed.

I know little to nothing about him - perhaps revealing enough in itself - but thinking in terms of McGeeney, James Horan and Mickey Harte, but hearing Galligan, McDermott, Jason Reilly and Danny Hughes instead, kind of underlines my earlier point about us having fierce delusions of grandeur here in Cavan! The plainer view from outside puts a different shade on things for sure.

Of course, any one of those guys might well turn out to be a great appointment, and let's hope so. Just very hard to be positive given Cavan's (largely) lamentable fortunes over the years.
#8
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
July 19, 2023, 02:02:31 PM
Quote from: Westside on July 19, 2023, 09:17:19 AM

Any word on who is in the running for the senior job?

Celt today hinted that Hyland might well be nominated by one of the clubs, the man himself was quoted and wasn't ruling himself out by any means. Not sure what he'd bring that was any different to the first go around when - imo - he did a lot of good work but left a few big wins behind too before running out of road similar to Mickey.

On McGeeney, I share a lot of the misgivings but even someone as flawed as him is probably too high on the pecking order for Cavan as we currently stand. We're distinctly third rate and it'll only be when we stop codding ourselves about our history and legacy and status, and go back to the basics, with a lot of humility, and build from the bottom up, that things will improve sustainably. Two senior ulster titles in 54 goddamn years, for all our huffing and puffing and dreaming (me as bad as anyone) tells a tale we'd rather not acknowledge but it's there and time to stop hiding from it. So many counties have risen, fallen, and risen again in that time but we've remained mired for the most part and that's a sign we're doing it wrong too often.
#9
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
July 13, 2023, 06:03:55 PM
However it worked behind the scenes I do think he'd have been repeating Terry Hyland's error of one year too many if he stayed on. The arse has fallen out of things entirely, and of course we'll never know how he'd have shaken it up in the 12 months ahead, but the robotic inertia of the senior team's play felt like an endurance test or form of torture this year, and he has to carry the can for that. No doubting he gave it his all though, as well as one helluva bright day against the odds.
#10
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
July 13, 2023, 09:51:20 AM
Quote from: 5times5times on July 12, 2023, 10:28:33 AM
Quote from: cavanmaniac on July 11, 2023, 08:30:10 PM
Early mentions of Malachy O'Rourke to replace Graham. Whatever you think of him as a candidate, it's hard to imagine he won't be in the county board's thoughts.

You think Cavan would be ahead of Donegal, and possibly Tyrone & Armagh and their changes in mgt?

A few will be in for him I'd imagine, yes. Cavan's place in the pecking order is fairly diminished as well but he has club management experience here, not sure about the other counties but maybe there also. Hard to think of any Cavan men with the managerial chops to do the job either.

Interesting the Celt reported a lot of the current panel being in favour of Graham staying and he was veering that way until catching the board on the hop late in the day and stepping down. I find that very hard to credit but they know more than me about it I suppose.
#11
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
July 11, 2023, 08:30:10 PM
Early mentions of Malachy O'Rourke to replace Graham. Whatever you think of him as a candidate, it's hard to imagine he won't be in the county board's thoughts.
#12
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
June 26, 2023, 05:32:29 PM
My first post may have come across a tad uncharitable to Graham, who I do think did a solid job overall especially in his first few years. In reality we're going back to square one with a big rebuild on now so how tantalising a prospect that might be to an outside manager is debatable. I think we'll appoint from within again which I prefer in the circumstances but I think one more year under Mickey might be one too many. It's all gone very stale.
#13
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
June 25, 2023, 02:50:10 PM
Cavan look like having a few wilderness years now. Graham will go, and on the basis of the flat, robotic performances in the championship games that matter, starting with the Tailteann Cup final, it's time he did. In hindsight, losing that final is an even bigger disaster that it even looked initially, psychologically as well as in Sam Maguire eligibility terms - totally blew their chance to undo the horrors of those league relegations that Graham must carry the can for too. The football against Armagh and Down was genuinely nauseating to sit through - repetitive, side shuffling from players totally bound by systems, tactics, patterns, whatever you want to call it, it'd give you a pain in your face. Just no cut and thrust whatsoever.

A few big names look like they've had enough at this stage and that's no surprise; lots of miles done and very little to show for it, bar one shining moment. We still have a few players coming through you'd imagine, how could we not with "the great work being done at all levels in Cavan" (yet we've won next to nothing for 50 years +). I'm not knocking the effort there, btw, just how it's channeled. Clearly a lot of investment is yielding very little return, or not enough considering what's being put in.

Grim times ahead methinks  :-[
#14
Cavan / Re: Official Cavan GAA Thread
November 15, 2020, 11:27:39 PM
My jaw is still on the floor. That was an incredible comeback. Every bit as bad as they were first half - lethargic and standing off, chasing spaces, lurching at shadows in defence, pedestrian and predictable in attack - they were twice as good in the second - tackling with intensity, letting the ball in quickly, shooting decisively, great cutting in them and all guts and glory. It'd make you proud to be from Cavan. Mickey Graham is getting the maximum out of these players and Ulster final appearances should be minimum target for the team in most years I feel.

Donegal will be another kettle of fish. I hope Cavan don't overthink it like they seem to do against big-name opponents, and wait until they're way behind before snapping out of whatever mental straitjacket they seem to start games in these days. I don't expect a victory but another embarrassing tail-between-the-legs exit, like we've seen way too often against Tyrone and Donegal in recent years, would be very demoralising. Hope they go down with their boots on and make Donegal work for it at least.
#15
Cavan claw their way up a few rungs of the ladder and get summarily whack-a-moled right back down by Tyrone...has a depressingly familiar look to it.

Major question marks over that group of players now, some lads out there ought to know, and show, better than that at this stage of their careers. Drawing Tyrone was a wretched, wretched turn of events for this team and manager at this stage but to emerge with literally not one scintilla of anything positive to cling to - there is the nightmare. Graham has some job on his hands now.