Messages

[(Cavan did not reach the semi's)]

We've got some D3 match previews over on live gaelic if anyone's interested:

http://www.livegaelic.com/news/national-league-division-3-4-previews/

We'll be doing live scores as well if anyone is looking over the weekend.

Certainly interested but you will have to do better as your preview of Cavan Monaghan has lots of errors at least from a Cavan perspective....


Cavan and Monaghan will face each other in Round 2 of the Allianz National League. This Division 2 tie takes place in Kingspan Breffni Park on Saturday night at 7pm and promises to be a lively encounter.

After having a decent Dr. McKenna Cup campaign reaching a semi final (Cavan did not reach the semi's), Cavan will admit that they were below par in their two point loss to Antrim last Sunday. In a poor enough encounter Terry Hyland's men coughed up too much easy possession and conceded too many frees. As well as that Hyland will look for a lot more productivity from his forward division going into the Monaghan tie. They will certainly need to win the midfield battle against Monaghan if they are to get a result tomorrow night.

Meanwhile Malachy O'Rourke's men ought to be in a good frame of mind after last Sunday's destruction of Meath. It was easy to see that the Dr. McKenna Cup final loss to Mickey Harte's Tyrone didn't affect them in any way as they were excellent from start to finish hitting 1-18 and only conceding 1-2 from play to Meath. Confidence must surely be on a high in the Farney camp going into tomorrow evening's contest.

Sharing the load
As mentioned previously Cavan boss Hyland will demand more from his attacking unit and be anxious that they not leave all the work to star men Martin Dunne and Niall McKeever (Mark McKeever or Niall McDermott, McKeever hit the 2nd goal so I presume thats who you mean) who hit 2-5 between them in the defeat to Antrim. The Breffni Blues are expected to line out similarly to last weekend so more than likely the midfield pairing of Givney and McKiernan (Givney did not play midfield, he lined out at Full Forward) will start along side each other again. Their work-rate added with the amount of help they will get from the half forward and half back lines will determine how well Hyland's men will do come 8.30pm tomorrow night in Cavan.

Monaghan manager O'Rourke has been quite conservative with his team selection as he has stuck with more or less the same personnel throughout the McKenna Cup and into the league. Not surprisingly he has named an unchanged side from that which defeated the Royals so comprehensively last time out. Owen Lennon was named captain for 2013 during the week and talisman Tommy Freeman will be on the substitute's bench come tomorrow evening. The big performers like Dick Clerkin, Conor McManus and the industrious Darren Hughes are all expected to carry their good form into the Cavan clash and ensure another two league points for Monaghan.

The first half will be key tomorrow night. If Monaghan get a foothold in the game and dominate around the middle early on then one would worry for Hyland's men but if Cavan can hang in there till the latter stages then who knows. In saying that O'Rourke's troops have to be heavily fancied here.

Verdict: Monaghan (You probably go this right but I hope not)

Well that is true.

There were a lot of people machine gunned too, I'd say many more people were upset about people being gunned down than a horse.

How do you know he was machine gunned.

f**k Monaghan, and you can quote me on that Celt.

What's the big deal, its in the celt or its on here. Makes no difference as anyone can read in either place. No harm printing peoples opinions. Its only one game, a win against Monaghan would really lift things again.

I would value marriage highly. That is as long as it is a proper marriage carried out in a chapel or church and not one of these town hall jobs.
I hope there does not come a day when gay marriages are common place at the alter.

I'm not getting married in a chapel or church - is mine a "proper marriage"?

Legally it will be but religiously no. It is up to the individual what matters to them.

On the day I got married things that mattered were the readings, the gospel, communion, blessing of the rings etc. Signing a piece of paper from the local council meant nothing emotionally to me.

Each to there own and good luck with it.

I was the opposite, everything in the church meant nothing to me but I was looking forward to the craic in the hotel.

Antrim 1-14 Cavan 2-9.

Ref makes a ridiculous call at the end giving a free out to Antrim instead of a penalty to Cavan.

Very disappointing start.

2-8 to 1-14 in favour of Antrim, looks all over with only 2 mins left

2-8 to 1-12 to Antrim

Goal Martin Reilly Dunne

2-7 to 1-12

Cavan 1-7 Antrim 1-12

Peno for Cavan now!

Cavan 1-7 Antrim 0-11

about 10 gone in 2nd half, McKeever with goal
1-7 to 0-8 now

Cavan 1-7 Antrim 0-7