Official Cavan GAA Thread

[tommysmith]

Two tight games in MacRory today
November 6, 2013

Danske Bank MacRory Cup

St Patrick's Cavan 2-13 St Patrick's Armagh 2-5

St Ciaran's Ballygawley 1-9   St Mary's Magherafelt 1-9

One of yesterday afternoon's Danske Bank MacRory Cup games finished in a draw, the other could easily have gone the same way.

However St Patrick's Cavan pulled away with 1-4 in the last 7 minutes at Scotstown to record their first victory.

They started the better as well and Drumlane's Ryan Connolly netted after 8 minutes.  Cavan played some good football during that opening half but were caught with 2 goals in quick succession from Eddie Mallon just before the break and Armagh led by 2-3 to 1-5 at half-time.

The teams went score for score for a 2-5 to 1-8 score-line in the 53rd minute and looked to be on their way to a share of the spoils.

Suddenly Cavan took off with points from Brian Sheanan, Ronan O'Reilly and Darragh Gannon, and then opened Armagh up for O'Reilly to clinch the points with a goal.

Ryan Connolly capped an excellent individual performance with his 8th point at the death.

The other game, in MUSA, was decided in the 4th minute of injury time with Michael McVey slotting over a 35 metre free to tie the teams at 1-9 each.

The breeze was a factor in this game and Ballygawley led by 1-5 to 0-3 at the turnover, the goal coming from Mark McConnell.  But they, like Magherafelt in the second half, were guilty of some wayward shooting as well.

Magherafelt edged their way back into contention after the break, and then a high ball from Terence O'Brien was gathered by Dessie McColgan and fired to the net in the 42nd minute.

From then until the end, the game could have gone either way and a draw was at this point the fairest result.

St Ciaran's : Mark McConnell 1-0, Mark Kavannagh 0-5, Jody McGlone 0-2, Ruairi O'Neill 0-1, Enda McGarrity 0-1.

St Mary's Magherafelt : Dessie McColgan 1-0, Terence O'Brien 0-2, Tiarnan Burke 0-2, Michael McVey 0-2, Johnny Connolly 0-2, Ryan o'Neill 0-1.

St Patrick's Cavan : Ryan Connolly 1-8, Ronan O'Reilly 1-1, Ben Conaty 0-2, Brian Sheanan 0-1, Darragh Gannon 0-1.

St Patrick's Armagh : Eddie Mallon 2-0, Conor McKenna 0-2, Conor Murphy 0-1, James McKeown 0-1, Rory McGrath 0-1.

[rodney trotter]

That was Pats first game in the McRory today, game against Enniskillen was postponed mid way through. Good start anyway.

[mrdeeds]

Yeah lads are going to St Pats to play football. Shane McManus, Harry O Neill, Christopher Dunne, Brendan Argue and Greg McGovern all new additions from other schools. Think there is a few more. Throwback to the old days.

[tommysmith]

Yeah lads are going to St Pats to play football. Shane McManus, Harry O Neill, Christopher Dunne, Brendan Argue and Greg McGovern all new additions from other schools. Think there is a few more. Throwback to the old days.

What clubs are they all from>

[mrdeeds]

McManus from Crosserlough came from St. Clares BJD, Harry O Neill is from Baileborough but was in school in Dublin I think, Christopher Dunne and Argue (Michael's brother) came from Baileborough and Greg McGovern from Swad was in Bawnboy school. Great start from them with a huge amount of work and coaching put in from Finbar Reilly. A lot of lads repeating Fifth Year to play again next year.

[rodney trotter]

Yeah next years team will be the side that won the Rannafast in 2012, most of those lads will be repeating so Ryan Connolly, Pearse Smith will be around

[Denn Forever]

Yeah next years team will be the side that won the Rannafast in 2012, most of those lads will be repeating so Ryan Connolly, Pearse Smith will be around

Sounds like 1972 all over again.

[Babe Ruth 47]

Yeah, its the only way they would be able to compete . Be great for Cavan football to see them do well

The Rannafast team are playing Colemans newry nest week in the Semi Final. Be great if they could get retain that Cup.

That Ranafast semi final is on this Friday at 2 in Middleton. Very good team also.

[rodney trotter]

Yeah, its the only way they would be able to compete . Be great for Cavan football to see them do well

The Rannafast team are playing Colemans newry nest week in the Semi Final. Be great if they could get retain that Cup.

That Ranafast semi final is on this Friday at 2 in Middleton. Very good team also.

Yeah very strong team again this year. Paul Leddy has been in good form again this year for them like last year. Missed the final last year through injury

report from the Quarter final last week


October 28, 2013

Danske Bank Edmund Rice Rannafast Cup quarter-finals:

Omagh CBS 1-18 St Mary's Magherafelt 1-7

St Patrick's Cavan (holders) 4-12 Patrician Carrickmacross 1-9

There were no surprises in the two Danske Bank Edmund Rice Rannafast Cup quarter-finals played yesterday with Omagh CBS and holders St Patrick's Cavan easing past St Mary's Magherafelt and Patrician Carrickmacross respectively to reach separate semi-finals.

Omagh had to contend with a very strong breeze in their game and St Mary's Magherafelt led by 1-7 to 0-6 at the break with a good goal from Ronan Ó'Kane.

However the Convent was held scoreless during the second half despite the best efforts of Kyle Johnstone and Declan Cassidy.

Omagh drew level with 3 frees from Andrew McGrath and a Niall Murray point, but once Johnny Harkin found the net in the 41st minute, there was only going to be one winner.

St Mary's had scoring chances however before a flurry of scores near the end stretched Omagh's lead well beyond them.

Cavan, the holders, took less time to establish control in their quarter-final with newly promoted Patrician High Carrickmacross, running up an interval lead of 2-11 to 0-6.

Those first half goals came from Conor Smith and Thomas Edward Donohue.  The latter added 3 points as did Paul Leddy.

In the second half, Cavan remained in control, but took the opportunity to use some of their subs.  Donohue found the net again, as did Leddy who added their only point of the second half, with David Garland bringing his account to 1-5 with a Carrick goal.

Omagh now play the winner from the St Patrick's Maghera v Abbey CBS tie that won't happen until next Wednesday, while Cavan will face either St Patrick's Armagh or St Colman's, who play in St Paul's Lurgan on Thursday 11.30am.

Meantime in the Danske Bank Herald Cup, there will be an all-Armagh semi-final with St Michael's Lurgan taking on St Jospeh's Crossmaglen next Wednesday.

Cross upset the form-book by taking out a fancied St Patrick's Downpatrick after extra-time, 2-16 to 3-11, while St Michael's came home on a 4-9 to 2-10 score against Our Lady's castleblaney with goals from Barry mcCambridge (2), Odhran Magee and Keelan Lavery.

St Ciaran's Ballygawley play St Eunan's Letterkenny tomorrow (Wednesday) while the last quarter-final (St Louis Ballymena v St Mary's CBGS) is scheduled for Tuesday 5th November.

Omagh CBS : Johnny Harkin 1-0, Andrew McGrath 0-8, 0-6 frees, Aidan Fullerton 0-3, Conor Loughran 0-2, Niall Murray 0-1, Eamon Rea 0-1, Cahir Moss 0-1, Caolan Moss 0-1, Odhrán Sludden 0-1.

St Mary's : Ronan O'Kane 1-1, Ronan Donnelly 0-2, Manus McAllister 0-1, Declan Cassidy 0-1, David McErlean 0-1.

Cavan : Thomas Edward Donohue 2-3, Paul Leddy 1-4, Conor Smith 1-1, Ryan O'Neill 0-1, Shane Fortune 0-1, Stephen Smith 0-1, David Wilson 0-1.

Patrician : David Garland 1-5, Stephen Finnegan 0-2, Alan Kiernan 0-1, Ronan McDonnell 0-1.

[mylestheslasher]

McManus from Crosserlough came from St. Clares BJD, Harry O Neill is from Baileborough but was in school in Dublin I think, Christopher Dunne and Argue (Michael's brother) came from Baileborough and Greg McGovern from Swad was in Bawnboy school. Great start from them with a huge amount of work and coaching put in from Finbar Reilly. A lot of lads repeating Fifth Year to play again next year.

Can someone explain this to me. Are we saying that these guys are from different schools but have effectively transferred to St Pats school so that they can play McRory cup football? Seems like that is against the ethos of the GAA in many ways if that is the case although I take the point that it has not been a level playing field in the past due to the northern teams having older players.

[rodney trotter]

They were asked would they liked to switch as Pats were going to compete in McRory this year. .Otherwise get another few hammering in McRory with a young team. Northern teams are an extra year in school. Nothing wrong with it, its only for the benefit of Cavan football that Pats can start to compete in McRory again.

[mylestheslasher]

They were asked would they liked to switch as Pats were going to compete in McRory this year. .Otherwise get another few hammering in McRory with a young team. Northern teams are an extra year in school. Nothing wrong with it, its only for the benefit of Cavan football that Pats can start to compete in McRory again.

Well I am a little uncomfortable with this, what about the schools they have left behind - what about the standard of football there?

[tommysmith]

I presume they have notions of winning it otherwise lads wouldn't go out of their way to go there.

[rodney trotter]

Plenty of players switch schools in the past and I'm sure they will again in the future.
Mark McKeever was in Carrigallen Voc for 3 years and left to play with for Moyne in Leinster Colleges.
Those players are obviously losses for those schools but that's the way it is. Higher standard at College level. Virginia dominate practically every year anyway at Voc level.

[Itchy]

Is that why McKeever moved schools Rodney, I don't think it was that alone. Gowna is much closer to Moyne than any other school you know.