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Witnessing Division THree footbal I dont have too many suggestion with regards ti players being good enough for the County.

From my own club I am amazed Declan Reilly has not been given a chance with at least the Junior Team. Paddy Byrd has talent as well but perhaps not the temperment!

I think Gearoid McKiernan has serious potential, and  I would like to hear who is playing well for Kingscourt these days?

4 out of 4 for the Shamrocks by the way

Have not been able to say that in a while

Big test against Swad at the weekend!

ALright lads, got away on a wee holiday for a couple of days, encase anyone was worried where I have been Hope i still have a job now!!!!

From what i am told, Eoin Smith trained with the county team last night, as did Sean Maguire, Tomas Reilly, Declan MckIernan kevin Brady and John Tierney. Think they were just in to play apart in a practice game. Think they are all part of the current Cavan junior panel - dont think they are actually part of the senior panel yet anyway.

Apparently Ted done very well at FB in shocking conditions.

Also saw DCU win the All Ireland freshers today over UCC - Niall McDermott was class. Oisin Minnagh was very good as well

Cavan completely outclassed the Dubs 18 to 11.

Bar the Dublin full-forward, who i think was called Stapleton they had very little else.

A lot of good performances on the Cavan team

The decision against Dunne was absolutely hilarious! The ref was mind boggling at times. Thought Gunner was excellent and cant believe someone thought lyng was poor. For me, he was one of our top 3 players. Got on the ball a lot and lead by example in the forward with his workrate and tackling - as well as his passing.

Also thought our midfield done pretty well. Galligan in particular done Trojan work. Have a lot of time for Dunne, think he is a good young lad. But what the management done to Givney was shocking. Personally I thought they used him as an example, to show after their reluctance to change things last week, that they arent afraid to make changes anymore. Really harsh on the young lad and they are completely messing with his confidence. I admit he hadn't really got into the game but at the same time I felt he did not do anything to justify whipping him off.

Anyone else wonder how Eddie stayed on for so long?

PS. You have got to love Larry

Roscommon were poor, but we were deserved victors

bboro beat mnugent.was a dog rough game.redhills beat lacken and kingscort drew with ballyhaise.     G
Eddie at ff tomoro; flanagan a wf with gunner in at cb. Hannon is dropped, same midfield.givney in at wf.think lyng plays.

By the way, I have asked this before but how come Eamon Reilly from the Gaels is not on the Cavan Panel. Don't really understand that!

Lack of county players will affect a lot of club's this weekend. My own club won't be too badly hit though


Looking forward to the game on Sunday. Think Cavan are going to put in a really big performance, even better than the Down one.

Any see the Celt this week? Interesting article about the U21's exit last week.

Is Pierson fit for this weekend? We need his intelligence on the field. I think he was doing a bit of running during the week?Any got any predictions for the team or other team news?

Apologies if you cant make senso of stuff SOK, was typing in a hurry.

What you have problems understanding? Just had a quick look at it, with regards to Givney, i meant he should have been put FF if they wanted Cullivan brought out.

Thanks Put it up, was it yourself on another thread was saying that only 4 or 5 lads are at their final under 21 year, have you any idea what that number is on the team you have just posted. It's hard to see us going a serious distance in this competition if you have not got a strong core of lads who are right at the age limit I would have thought. Mind you, now that I've typed that, we got to an Under 21 AIF in 96 with a pretty young team. Feckit forget those few sentences and give me an idea of the number, if  you can..........

Angloclet, of that starting 15, only Cullivan is overage next year i believe. Jesus that is a young team. O'Dowd and Gaffney aren't playing so I presume they are injured.

I dont know, i'm a believer in if they are good enough they are old enough. Sure 5 or 6 of that team have already experienced senior-inter county football.

It will be interesting to see if they can produce on the night. But for gods sake we need a repeat of that AI sucess back in 96. It gave the whole county a boost and boy god could we do with that again. It only takes one team to change a counties reputation

We need some of our underage teams to produce very soon. There have been to many moral victories over the years.  What AI sucess was there in 96 ?

my bad, I think my subconcious was wishing we had sucess in 96! I just meant that sucess they enjoyed in getting to the final, played a big part in the Ulster Win of 97.

The U21 team arrived in my email account last night. Here it is

Alan O'Mara
Patrick Carroll
Rory Dunne
Ray Farrelly
Barry Watters
James McEnroe
Daniel Graham
Gearoid McKiernan
David Givney
Declan McKiernan
Eugene Keating
Robert Maloney-Dernham
Conor Smith
Ray Cullivan
Niall McDermott

Think Larry will defo be a impact sub come the summer. He is not past it yet, just needs to sharpen up. I think he is a great asset to have in the panel and apparently he is excellent in training.

Lads, whats the story with Pierson? What did he injure?

2 more points, won 9 - 10. Sounded absolutely diabolial, but 2 points ia 2 points. Limerick seemed to miss an awful lot. Roll on Armagh and the Rossies

Wouldn't go as far as diabolical but Limerick should've been out of sight after 20 minutes missing both goal and point chances aplenty. It took that same length of time for Jelly & Larry to decide to run, although in fairness to Johnston he had his hands full telling Martin Reilly what he should be doing.

Full-back line did well overall but I hope that's the last we see of Sean Brady at CHB. Whoever's plan that was, hats off for originality but bring back Flanagan (where was he and Cullivan?)
Midfield were poor enough although Mulvey ran around gamely if headless before being called ashore for the ginger one.
Keating did quite well as did Mackey, overdoing it on occassion.
It seems like Carr is trying different players in different positions, and as with Podge let's hope he learns as time goes on.

2 points in the bag if a little fortunate and I haven't mentioned Jonny Crowe's performance which I think we should all try to forget.

it wasnt pretty, it wasnt great, but it was a win.

Couldn't believe when i saw Brady with number six on his back (really dont rate him), and Crowe was appalin..would have taken him off at HT.

I thought Keating was poor but he needs time - has alot of potential. Mackey impressed. Larry got in the way at times,  it was like he was trying too hard. That was a good lad marking Jelly.

Cullivan got an injection today and was rested. Wednesday was given the priority over this league game. Was reasonably happy with FB line, but Limerick were  poor. If they had of brought there scoring boots they would of been out of sight after 15 mins.

ah a Balieborough discussion, this is a first   il try and not offend Anglocelt and put it up
Neil Donnelan could have done with a trial on the county team, ive seen him put some very good players in his pocket.
David Rooney is also a very good footballer as is Declan Reily.
Midfield would be a problem for you lads id say, Never really replaced big Charlie.
Seen your junior team against our lads in Championship semi final last year in atrocious conditions in Virginia, you had a few big lads at centre field who were useful, Barry McMahon???
Paddy Byrd is a good player, terrific free taker off the ground from what i seen a few years ago. Dessie Reily is also a good forward.
what age is young Niall Kelly,been hearing he was the scourge of some very good Ballyhaise underage teams over the last 5 years,hes going to be a good one id imagine.
Andy Coleman was a class act,done well on his only real county duty under Eamon Coleman(especially good game against Armagh in the league)
Far too many good players to be getting relegated to Div 3, i cant imagine if the attitude is right,that anyone will take any points off ye in the league.

as for Big Charlie and Lambe, still strutting their stuff for the juniors ,handy lads to have about for a junior team
Running into Charlie Clarke even at 35/36 would not be pleasant.

Ballyhaise man you know more about our team than some of the previous managers

We do, talent is not our problem - from what I gather it is more an attitude thing! Sometimes I think of us as the club version of Cavan (tongue in cheek)/

Niall Kelly has singlehandedly beaten Ballyhaise at times in the last few years. It was like a little shoot off between him and Tierney (another outstanding talent).Kelly's problem is he is currently out of shape and a has lost his burst of space. Still only a minor I am sure he will get it back.

Byrd is a fantastic player, but ther is no controlling him. Paul Sharkey is another good player.

I think it is going to take the majority of this season for our team to click, given there are so many new faces. But as you say if the attitude is right, not many teams should take points off us.

PS. if only there was a record of dumb quotes from Norther Sound. I reckon if the two boys were asked to speak about a ball of cotton wool for 70 minutes they would somehow manage it!

The only real chance I get to follow Cavan's progress these days is via Northern Sound on the net. After a while you have no choice but to get used to it , in fact it gets to the stage of being "so bad it's good" type of thing as you wait for the next faux pas. Put it up I've seen the Shamrocks play twice in the current century-distance and slim pickings being the reason, still a few of us keep tabs on things from  a distance so I would be familiar with a few of the names you mention.

Seems from what you say that a few of the old guard stayed around a bit too long, happens in manys a club. Are the likes of Neil Donnellan, Rob Mulhall, Andy Coleman togging out-it's lads like that you would need to be stepping up if you are to bounce back. Young Luke Sheridan was one hardy buck at minor level, I think injuries did him no real good. Will watch, as best we can, from distance. Keep us posted.

No Neal Donnellan is not around this year and Andy Coleman said he did not want to play. Truth be told he has not wanted to play for the last couple of years...It is a shame because boy god was he one good footballer in his younger years!
Young Sheridan has had cruciate troubles, done it for a second time only two weeks ago. The poor fella was only getting back into the swing of things.

PS, my heart goes out to you having to use Nortern Sound, you must be an intelligent man to decipher the codes they use

What club are u anglocelt39?

What age is Coleman? I watched him play in the intermediate first round last year and he had a savage second half. Destroyed his man. I'm with ya on the pub Celt-Man. Can't watch any game properly. Good craic if you don't care about the performance but if it's any kind of analysis you're after then forget it. Luckily I don't care too much for the rugger.

Ah Coleman is  a serious footballer, has serious talent. But motivation was the problem. He broke his collarbone a few years ago and never really recovered.

I am another man, that bloody hates watching a game in the pub. Someone is always there to distract and you cant fully focus on the game itself.

Ah you must return to the Shamrocks anglocelt. Any chance we could put you in on the square