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I dont see the problem with that video at all. Cavan were well out of the championship at that stage he was entitled to be dancing on the streets drunk like the rest of us were. If someone hada got a recording of me dancing and put it on Youtube I would guess Simon Cowell would have been on to me know for Britains got Talent because I was on fire down there 

He was having the crack in the off-season so let him be

Initially, I would keep 10 or 12 of last year's panel as a core group and I would strip the rest of it back. If them lads prove their worth through form then I would gladly accept them back in. You would have to agree Lawrence that a fair few of the boys I am talking about  are there on some kind of reputation when the fact is their form has been quite poor domestically. I think Val and Terry need to go looking for the right attitude between talent and work-rate. And as stupid as the HOPE thing sounds it makes sense.

One thing I will say AC39 is, there are not too many lads from Kingscourt or Ramor that jump out. Colm and Philly Smith played well, as did Alan Clarke who is already in with Cavan, when I saw Kingscourt but after them too I wasn't impressed with Kingscourt at all.

Nobody caught my eye for Ramor. That is what I mean about having no stars. It's up to the new management to identify key attributes in players that might not have gotten a chance before and to try and bring them on.

Agree with you Lawrence on Fannin though, I think he is brilliant at WF. We still need a dirty old fashioned corner back, a reasurring FB (most county's do). I think Gearoid McKiernan and Givney are the only way to go midfield. If you could coax Crowe to come in and be a father figure all the better.

With regards to that McKiernan lad from Lacken, I think he is only 19. I would let him settle in with the u21's first and see how he fares there.

T'was actually Cavan, piece in todays Irish Indo that plans to put holes in trophies or just as stupidly permanently fix lids to trophies have not taken place and thankfully are unlikely to happen. One of the most ridicolous ideas I think I've every heard!

As a Cavan man, that idea just made me cringe. I reckon our officiials are just jealous of seeing everyone else drink out of a cup bar us

[Although I still say playing at least Div 2 football is a must for Cavan in the next 2 years.]

The Kildare credo of -10  +16 seemed to work well this season (eventually) so let us wait and see.

How has Managenent watch been going?  Have the management team been seen at any games so far?

I don't think that is one aspect where the management will be found wanting. I'm sure Terry will have most games covered.
Talking about aims for the year or 3 year term its hard to know what should be the objectives. Promotion should probably be the main one but then look at what Roscommon did this year against a team who went in the opposite direction (Sligo). Although I still say playing at least Div 2 football is a must for Cavan in the next 2 years.
A Full-Back has to be found and would be of more immediate importance than any long term objective because basically without a good, comfortable full-back we are going nowhere.

I think that should be out main goal for the year and it is definitely possible if you hit the ground running. Divisione 3 is very much a level playing field.

I too will be very interested to see the first panel that is picked. I think a lot of familiar faces will be cut. It will do the set up no harm either. A good clean-out is needed and the lads that have the good attitudes will prove themselves and force their way back in.

One thing I would say is there is very little star quality in the county. T & V are going to have to scour the county and find players that have the raw attributes needed to fill a certain position. There are no polished gems, or very few of them, and I think a lot of coaching/polishing will need to be done in the months of January, Feb and March to get the new faces, be young or old, familiar with the game-plan.

The happy go lucky football, where we go out and try to play nice attacking football and if we get bet we get bet has to stop. We need to start maximising limited resources and become a hard-worlking team that is hard to beat. If that means dropping a few talented lads that won't do the donkey work on the field then so be it.

i think we need our own version of what went on in Dublin this year. Shake-up the panel and get players to fit a system. Nobody expects Cavan to go out and win something but it would be alot nicer if we could go out and genuinely put it up (forgive the pun) to teams like Roscommon, Sligo, Limerick did this year. We need to stop trying to out-play teams (which has failed us miserably recently) and focus on starting to out-work them.  That would be a solid foundation and if the new management come close to implementing that philosophy in their first year I will be happy.

The AC Milan jersey is class

Reminds me of this one.

Classic

Well lads,

Something weird happened to my last account, couldn't log in no matter what I tried to do over the last few weeks - I am sure you all remember me. 

I saw in the Celt today we are looking towards the HOPE programme.

Hard Work
Opportunity
Progression
Energy

Not such if that was actually that but it was something similar. Sounds pretty gay and a little cliched but already sounds better than the last regime if they implement it to any degree.