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Lynchbhoy:
Peter Reilly was consistently excellent for Cavan for a decade. Gaynor was indeed absolutely brilliant against Down in 04, but that (he was class in the replay too to be fair) was the height of what he achieved in a Cavan jersey.
To list him as one of the three best is ridiculous - he had a couple of excellent matches, only lasted two or three seasons on the panel.
His reputation isn't exaggerated, either. The bigger the match and the tighter, the more chance he would implodeand get the line. I'm thinking of the Ulster U21 final, the All Ireland club semi-final with Ballinagh, a vital last day of the league against Meath and countless other games.
Ballinagh's first championship match this year against the Gaels when he was really needed, he struck a player and got the line five minutes in.
Here's another example of the difference between a wasted talent like Gaynor and a genuine top class county player like Peter: Both players played centre-back on brilliant Under 21 teams. Reilly was inspirational, lead his team to the All Ireland final.
Gaynor bottled it under pressure and got himself sent off in the Ulster final when the game was in the melting pot.
That's the difference.

Anglocelt:

The poster said: he was the most talented footballer I have ever seen in flesh.
Regardless of the thread title, that's a fairly straightforward statement.
Get off your high horse please.

Lynchbhoy:

Anthony Gaynor
Fast Eddie

What are you basing your selection of Gaynor on? That's embarrassing.
As for 'Fast Eddie'? Is this Eddie Reilly? The same Eddie who can rarely even make a dire Cavan team?
I know this is all about opinions but selecting those two is just ludicrous.

The best I've seen have been:

1 McCabe
2 Larry Reilly
3 Peter Reilly

Boojangles:

I may have seen alot more of Michael Fegan than most Cavan supporters but I say it in earnest that he was the most talented footballer I have ever seen in flesh

Wow. More talented than Maurice Fitzgerald and Peter Canavan, Paddy Bradley, Dermot Earley, Darragh O Sé... Presume you've seen these fellas in the flesh.
What a player he must have been. Imagine, Cavan had a player of that ability in the county and couldn't win a match from 88 to 95. What's more, he couldn't get near the team in 97. That was some team to keep a player like that on the bench as an unused sub.
Lucky for Maurice Fitz that McHugh didn't pick Fegan, that Player of the Year award would be sitting in Micsín's gathering dust along with his 98 Cavan senior medal and his.... other medals.

galligan just isnt good enough for county.a place on the panel is all he should have,no way should he be starting matches.

What's the point being on the panel if you're not good enough to start matches? Just for the sake of it?
What an idiotic comment.

Anyway, a nesty may join and  everyone reckons chesty should be  brought back .  Question is, is there a besty out there?

Please denn forever, put up a little warning before posting anything so stupendously funny again. Man, that was some funny shit. I had no idea you were a professional comedian, and if you're not, you should be.
"Besty"! Brilliant.

It is a pointless bit of hard man macho shite that any manager with half a brain would have got out of them

Warning, gratuitous Stephen King jibe here.

I'm joking Mylie, you are right in what you say. However, isn't Junior McKiernan the real manager out there as you revealed before? Surely he has a full brain and could stamp this out?

Funny you should say this, cavanmaniac:

you're just interested in ragging on the Gaels

and this

I'm not a Gaels clubman or anything close but the petty refusal by a lot of football-watchers in the county to give them any credit whatsoever for anything they do beggars belief at times.[/

Because in my very last post I said this:

Fill the Cavan team with Gaels lads I say. They are the benchmark

Doesn't sound like someone not giving credit, does it?

I have to say first off, I was impressed with the Gaels workrate and commitment, and the character they showed to send it to extra time with a man less on a very draining day. I know Galls were wasteful in front of the posts and generally edged the contest overall, but I left thinking that if our county team had half the balls, drive and gumption that the Gaels do, we'd be a lot better off.

I totally disagree. The Gaels were six up with 25 minutes to play and hit the self-destruct button, Chesty going round charging with the head at a crucial stage.
The diving antics of Walsh beggared belief too.
Getting four men sent off in one match and being outscored by 1-5 to 0-2 in the final 25 minutes of normal time is the opposite to 'balls and gumption' in my opinion.
Lyng was scoreless for 80 minutes plus - no balls there. Jelly kicked the ball at the ref and Crotty took a fella down with a WWF style tackle in the last seconds. Not much gumption in that!
Niall Murray came on and coughed up possession four times by my count, kicked one great point and followed up with a poor wide.
Gall's totally dominated the match and kicked 20 wides according to Irish News today - if they had even scored a quarter of these they were seven point winners, which would have been closer to the right result.

It was just terrible for Cavan football, I really thought the Gaels would give us all a lift. They are a great team when things are going well, which is often because Cavan sides roll over against them. But outside of Ulster, their record is actually worse than Cavan's in the Ulster Championship!

In fairness, Lynch did extremely well with Virginia but the standard was dire. Very few Virginia College players even made good county minors - Conor Smith scored something like 3-4 in the final one year and flopped for the county.
Wasn't Darren Costello of Denn captain one year and couldn't make the county minors?

The jury is still out on him, his first year with the seniors (he got the job after being overlooked for the minors, figure that out) was an unmitigated disaster. Hopefully he, and everyone else, will pull their socks up this year.

Fill the team with Gaels lads I say. They are the benchmark and many of the Cavan panellists wouldn't make their first 15, strange as it sounds.
Think about it. Their senior team v the Cavan team, the Gaels are stronger in a lot of positions.
Sean Reilly over Ciaran Galligan, Nelligan over Givney, Crotty over Brides, Rabbitt over whoever Cavan put full-back...
That's not to mention Collins, Forde, Lyng etc...

Aw FFS I didn't even see that. Come on Milltown - you'd expect that from a gombeen in the crowd, not from a man in your position. That's an awful slight on the club, the men who slog to get hurling in that part of the world up and running and those who have been coaching the young lads at that club for years. Ok, they possibly were outclassed and reacted badly but for Jaysus sake. If you think they lacked something, show them how it's done.

I saw Lisbellaw play Mullahoran from Cavan in the junior last year, the game went to a replay.
Let me clearly state that lisbellaw were the dirtiest team I have ever seen. Couple of decent hurlers at that level but my God they were filthy.

My view of it was that both number sevens rubbed heads and the Swad man literally jumped to the ground theatrically wehn the Bridge man walked away. Should have been a yellow for acting, if such a rule exists.

Noel Mc Phillips or Mickey Fitz were the 2 outstanding men on the field.Neither put a foot wrong all day. Cunnigham gave Mulvey the run around in the 1st half.

Senan Flanagan was MOTM by a long way. He scored 1-4 (1-3 from play) and set up the second goal by winning a great ball around the middle from three Swad men and delivering a perfect pass.
I thought Mickey Fitzpatrick was very quiet actually!
Noel McP had a great game alright.
Michael Cunningham was good for a while but faded out of it.

What message would is send out to young fellas who want to play other GAA sports? The message would be that football is king here, rules are rules and f**k anything else.
This narrow-mindedness and failure to see the big picture is typical of Cavan 'GAA' supporters.



Ah Drung, it is indeed a difficult path in life you have chosen getting down and dirty on the GAA Discussion Board with the narrow minded neanderthals that make up the typical  body of Cavan GAA support. I want to be the first to thank you for your efforts to raise the tone of discussion to a more lofty and broad minded level. Keep it up mate

Eh? Didn't you already reply to that a couple of days ago?
For future reference, here's how it works: You're supposed to then reply to my reply, not have a couple of days to think and then have another stab at trying to say something smart in response to the original post!
Less of this arse-boxing and back to the topic at hand. Let's call the finals lads - I'm going:

Bridge
Lavey
Gaels

Still disgusted over last weekend, Drung made Cootehill look like Tyrone.
Colm Smith was very good though, worth a run with Cavan.
On this weekend's games, I'm tipping Shamrocks and Lavey to draw, Denn to win narrowly and Gaels to win by about 12 points.

What was that about back-heeling 45s?!

I think that would be superfluous, do you not? By it's nature, everything written on this board is opinion, mate.
In my opinion, of course.

What message would is send out to young fellas who want to play other GAA sports? The message would be that football is king here, rules are rules and f**k anything else.
This narrow-mindedness and failure to see the big picture is typical of Cavan 'GAA' supporters.