Official Cavan GAA Thread

mylestheslasher · February 24, 2009, 08:37:47 PM

2 perfect examples. Both make way more scores than they take themselves. Armagh especially are masters of the FF line working as a unit. You don't think you are being a bit harsh critising a 19 year old, used to playing jnr football in his first season as an inter county player? We can't have it both ways in demanding new players are tried and then bemoaning the fact that they are not good enough. We have no choice but to work with these lads and try and bring them along.

cavan4ever · February 24, 2009, 09:21:56 PM

Quote from: mylestheslasher on February 24, 2009, 08:37:47 PM
2 perfect examples. Both make way more scores than they take themselves. Armagh especially are masters of the FF line working as a unit. You don't think you are being a bit harsh critising a 19 year old, used to playing jnr football in his first season as an inter county player? We can't have it both ways in demanding new players are tried and then bemoaning the fact that they are not good enough. We have no choice but to work with these lads and try and bring them along.

Thats the problem he is to used to having all day on the ball playing junior football. Yes i may be harsh but its my opinion and i hope he proves me wrong.

anglocelt39 · February 24, 2009, 10:07:43 PM

Delighted to see this Givney lad get a chance-bit of size, ability to catch a ball allied to some scoring power isn't something we seem to have a lot of in the county this few years. We must allow him, surely, 2 or three years to realise his potential given that he's 19 years old and playing junior football at the moment. He may not even make it onto the championship team but a prolonged run in the league might bring him on a lot. Remember Pierce McKenna-we took him out of junior football and he looked that for 2/3 years, we persisted with him and he didn't work out too bad at all. It took Anthony Forde one heck of a long time to settle into a defensive role on the County Seniors (he got there in the end although I think he would have been a really top class half forward in a county that wasn't so desperately stuck, or so it seemed) for defenders. Looking at the small ball code, Dan Shanahan would never have made it to year 3 for Waterford if certain supporters had their way, by year 10 he was hurler of the year.

Keogan got absolutely lambasted, and quite rightly, for giving lads a "chance" and then dispensing with them after 20 or 30 minutes, hope we can learn from that. A final thought on the topic, we've given Ger Pierson a fair few chances over the past 6 years, hopefully this is the year he shows what he can do.

What was the story about Jelly in today's indo, denying he had quit the county panel, hopefully nothing more than a bit of a blow out after what was a disappointing week at colleges level.

the salmon of knowledge · February 25, 2009, 12:48:23 AM

please fill us in on why mountnugent has you in a tizzy since the weekend C4E??

BallyhaiseMan · February 25, 2009, 02:21:43 AM

C4ever were you fighting some mountain men from mountnugent at the weekend?

Tough shower up that part of the country

cavan4ever · February 25, 2009, 08:06:52 AM

Quote from: the salmon of knowledge on February 25, 2009, 12:48:23 AM
please fill us in on why mountnugent has you in a tizzy since the weekend C4E??

Quote from: BallyhaiseMan on February 25, 2009, 02:21:43 AM
C4ever were you fighting some mountain men from mountnugent at the weekend? Tough shower up that part of the country

I heard the abuse that some of them were dishing out to one of my fellow clubmen at the Tipperary game, i'd say alot of them were never at County game before until this year.

mylestheslasher · February 25, 2009, 10:19:22 AM

Theres nothing worse than going to a match and having to listen to imbeciles roaring garbage beside you. I expect they were demanding that our players stop "pricking around with the ball" i.e. Handpass and "Let it in the fu*k", code for drive the ball as high and long as possible in the general direction of the goal.

cavan4ever · February 25, 2009, 10:25:50 AM

Quote from: mylestheslasher on February 25, 2009, 10:19:22 AM
Theres nothing worse than going to a match and having to listen to imbeciles roaring garbage beside you. I expect they were demanding that our players stop "pricking around with the ball" i.e. Handpass and "Let it in the f**k", code for drive the ball as high and long as possible in the general direction of the goal.

No it was nothing like that.

Who all is going to Newry on Saturday evening?

Drung · February 25, 2009, 11:28:23 AM

QuoteSorry Drung,i have to say i disagree, Coulter scored both goals on Gunner that day,i remember it well

You obviously don't remember it that well because Coulter only scored one goal that day...

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cavan-smash-and-grab-669705.html

Embarrassing.

What else do you remember well, as a matter of interest??!

Celt_Man · February 25, 2009, 11:31:27 AM

Quote from: cavan4ever on February 25, 2009, 10:25:50 AM
Quote from: mylestheslasher on February 25, 2009, 10:19:22 AM
Theres nothing worse than going to a match and having to listen to imbeciles roaring garbage beside you. I expect they were demanding that our players stop "pricking around with the ball" i.e. Handpass and "Let it in the f**k", code for drive the ball as high and long as possible in the general direction of the goal.

No it was nothing like that.

Who all is going to Newry on Saturday evening?

No one I hope, it's not till the following Saturday night the 7th March.
I would hazard a guess at what they were roaring at Galligan was it? I don;t mind people giving out about the play, "ah he shouldn't have passed it etc" but I don't understand why they have to get personal. I have gotten into more than one "exchange of views" with other cavan "fans" when they said stuff that cut particularly close to the bone, and it wasn't about any of my clubmen either.
Having said all that I wouldn't hold it against the club that person was from, after all there's gobshites in every club. Yes even my own, look at the minor board chairman

cavan4ever · February 25, 2009, 11:51:14 AM

Any truth in what I heard about a bit of trouble at your Minor game at the weekend Celt_Man a few red cards and game blown up early?

Celt_Man · February 25, 2009, 12:09:19 PM

Quote from: cavan4ever on February 25, 2009, 11:51:14 AM
Any truth in what I heard about a bit of trouble at your Minor game at the weekend Celt_Man a few red cards and game blown up early?

Yea unfortunately it's true and even more that I wasn't at it... Oh the trouble we have had getting a minor team this year, first of all we really do only have 13 or 14 players and the county board - in all their wisdom - put us in division 2 so we had to fight to get out of that and into division 4 where we have been hammered in both games so far.
I heard that there was a nasty enough undercurrent to the whole game, it was the second half and we were getting well beaten, think we had 4 points, ballymachugh maybe 3 -9 or something like that. One of our players was through on goal but got taken out with a two footed lunge from behind!!! so our boy pushed the guy that tackled him and then some other ballymachugh boy came in and punched our player and away yer go.... I think 5 saw red, 2 cootehill and 3 of their boys, one of our lads had to get stitches in his face where he was opened - one of their boys seemingly was wearing a ring.... I am told the ref wanted to start the game again but another fight broke out beside him and he had enough and lifted the ball... so overall it's a bit of clusterf**k

mylestheslasher · February 25, 2009, 02:17:57 PM

How can a town the size of cootehill struggle to field a minor team?

Celt_Man · February 25, 2009, 02:34:30 PM

Ha I knew that one was coming.... Because it's not that big of a town, with a very small catchment area. For example, less than a mile from the pitch (which is the center of town) you have people playing from rockcorry and latton, kill, drumgoon and drung. This years minor team at under 14 level four years ago only had 18 players two of which were girls. Sure look at Fannin, he lives in the main estate in the tow but yet he plays for drumgoon.
And as well as one of our minor players transferred to Kill this year too and another player U16 transferred to Drumgoon.
The numbers in the national school aren't as big as they were when I was at school there either. When I was in 6th class, there was 35 in the class now I think the average is 16/17 so that doesn't help either.

BallyhaiseMan · February 25, 2009, 04:27:22 PM

Quote from: Drung on February 25, 2009, 11:28:23 AM
QuoteSorry Drung,i have to say i disagree, Coulter scored both goals on Gunner that day,i remember it well

You obviously don't remember it that well because Coulter only scored one goal that day...

http://www.independent.ie/sport/other-sports/cavan-smash-and-grab-669705.html

Embarrassing.

What else do you remember well, as a matter of interest??!

Yes im very embarrassed indeed, i should remember every single detail from every match that ive been to since i was 6 or 7,averaging about 5 league games and every championship game every year. Grow up Drung

"Michael Hannon provided the solution. Coulter was far less accurate and dangerous once he was switched onto him after 21 minutes and, under pressure, shot three wides in the second half." Nice quote there, Seems like Hannon didnt do such a bad job.