Official Cavan GAA Thread

cavanmaniac · May 21, 2007, 03:45:31 PM

Stupidity. By 7th July Cavan county team will have played three games in what, about 11 weeks? Madness that no SFC will have been played before then.

btw, qualifiers are set up to be run off on 7th, 14th and 21st of July...not getting the cart before the horse but if we win our first and second round game surely they'll mothball the championship again? Disgraceful way to treat the club players and it's only a matter of time before it blows up in their faces. county boards still think the only sporting choice open to young fellas is the GAA - maybe it was 20 years ago but not any more.

But sure a bit of foresight is too much to expect.

cavan4ever · May 21, 2007, 04:02:06 PM

yeah it's not right, it's not as if the county team are any good. A few club games might actually improve them a bit.

BallyhaiseMan · May 21, 2007, 04:06:20 PM

3 well 4 (but one is injured) members of our panel are going to the US in June,to play ball in Boston for the whole summer.
Id have my doubts if some of them would have went if the Championships were in full swing in May and June,Like they are in places like Kerry,Derry,Meath etc.
People nowadays are not going to wait around the entire Summer just to play a few games in Late July, and i cant blame them.

cavan4ever · May 21, 2007, 04:11:04 PM

Who's heading off?

BallyhaiseMan · May 21, 2007, 04:16:27 PM

Sean McCormack would be main one you would know of C4ever,and will be a huge miss.

others are two members of our fairly good reserve team.

Fergal McGoldrick and
Paul Prior.

Best of luck to them,Might aswell enjoy themselves when they are in college and can afford to go away.
im sure we arent the only ones who will be hit by the summer trips to US/Oz/UK etc.

cavan4ever · May 21, 2007, 04:22:59 PM

Well best of luck to them, it's not good for your club but the way things are going they could be back for quater-finals of championship.

CC1 · May 21, 2007, 05:05:02 PM

Surely the county board have to reconsider the up coming fixtures and try to accomodate some championship fixtures between now and the qualifiers. Because if they don't, it would be an absolute joke. What are we supposed to do between now and then? Twiddle our thumbs?

BallyhaiseMan · May 21, 2007, 08:21:15 PM

CC1
Then you would have clubs complaining about changing the fixture list,guys missing games because of holidays,booked around the original schedule
Its a complete balls up.

cavan4ever · May 22, 2007, 09:55:10 AM

Good to see the Cavan players out celebrating yesterday management and all , i wonder what grimley thinks of that.

cavanmaniac · May 22, 2007, 11:27:58 AM

I wouldn't begrudge them a few pints to be honest, it's seven weeks to the next game and I'm sure they've been hard at it for the last few months.

As long as they weren't out slapping themselves on the back for 'only' losing by four points and securing a replay the first day...now that would be worrying.

cavan4ever · May 22, 2007, 12:52:31 PM

It was more than a few and i know the next game is ages away but if Armagh are bet next sunday will Joe Kernan bring all the lads out drinking monday?

shotstopper1 · May 22, 2007, 03:08:46 PM

Quote from: BallyhaiseMan on May 21, 2007, 04:06:20 PM
3 well 4 (but one is injured) members of our panel are going to the US in June,to play ball in Boston for the whole summer.

I presume this would be to play with the Wolfe Tones club,who are currently managed by a former legendary haiseman, would this be right?

BallyhaiseMan · May 22, 2007, 03:26:16 PM

Yep the Wolfe Tones club ,i think they are managed by well known Ballyhaise Native Gerry Prior this year.
Legendary Haiseman,Steve Duggan you're thinking of perhaps? not sure if hes involved.

anglocelt39 · May 22, 2007, 10:43:39 PM

I wouldn't begrudge them a few pints to be honest, it's seven weeks to the next game and I'm sure they've been hard at it for the last few months.

Was that a slightly Freudian slip Maniac? The real quality of the management team and this group of players will be discovered when we line up for the first game in the qualifiers so lets keep our powder reasonably dry until then. Members of the management team would be giving plenty of hostages to fortune if they are getting into serious socialising with players if that is what it is, particularly given the state of unfitness of some of the blokes that started in the first game. Did McHugh have much of a habit of actively socialising with players as in having a few pints?

If we win a few in the qualifiers all will be sweet, otherwise the bitching will start.

cavanmaniac · May 23, 2007, 09:51:20 AM

Quote from: anglocelt39 on May 22, 2007, 10:43:39 PM
Was that a slightly Freudian slip Maniac?

McHugh knew when to let lads off the leash at the same time though and if you're going to do it now is the time. My point is that hopefully the lads were told by management to go and have a few drinks seeing as there's effectively two months to go to the next game, as opposed to continuing the monastic existence whereupon they'd probably sneak off and have a few regardless and possibly over do it, and more than once. As long as management have a handle on it I wouldn't begrudge them provided things settle down again very quickly and they get focused on what could potentialy be a very sticky qualifier match against decent oppostion.