The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Yip pretty dismal alright

We've no business in the Sam Maguire

Accurate.

A half arsed press on Dublin kickout which I think we won one kick out in whole match. 1st half what the hell were we at on our own kick out? Kick the ball in Fentons direction, unbelievable. Then go man to man with them at the back - insane. Our players also not tracking runs the whole match, goal just after half time was like u12 stuff. truly embarrassing stuff and look at how louth brought something to their game with Dublin in Croke park. Just awful.

Dublin left a lot after them all right. We were terrible on kickouts too. Game went pretty much as I'd feared although maybe the goals came a little easier than I'd have wished. Plus we probably got more joy up front than I was expecting, although given that they never came out of 2nd gear, I'm not sure how much of a positive that was.

The thing I'm probably most disappointed with though is our decision making up front. You're playing Dublin, if you get in on goal at all you have to go for a 3 pointer. And especially if you're 12 points down that's a no f***ing brainer. But no, we fist it wide. Christ on a bike!!!! No wonder we don't score much goals.

I'm not suggesting we have players that could go out an beat Dublin, we were always going to lose that game. But I do expect that we would have some sort of gameplan to give it our best shot. It's also worrying how the form of Faulkner, Gerrt Smith, Holla and few others has dropped of a cliff in the last 2 games.

Yeah I knew you weren't. They should have been more solid defensively, and at least got to half time with a chance of competing

Cavan were slack with some of the handpassing and kick passing which you can't do against Dublin.

The Ulster Championship is rushed off, and then a 2 week break between the games in All Ireland series. Counties like Cavan and Meath would want the season over, then waiting another 2 weeks.

Was it 4 players who made their championship debut against Dublin? Liam Brady, Mark Magee, Paddy Meade and Darragh Lovett?. It showed the panel was light on experience,.

He was on the panel at the start of the year for the McKenna Cup. I think they cut the panel then for the League.

5pm on Saturday in Longford for the Roscommon game.

The Minors playing Tyrone again in the Tier 2 Championship on Saturday at 2.

Any chance of a double header in Longford next weekend?

Cavanagh talking about playing against Cavan as the worst experience he faced in his career. Wasn't it Nicholas Walsh who was marking him?

27 min in

Great to get to Tier 2 final for the minors, some very good teams in that competition. Lads can be very hot and cold at that age so good to get a few days out and grow into the competition and gain a bit of confidence. As the lad said, you'll learn nothing sitting at home.

We played 2 very strong teams in the group stages in Ulster, they're both through to the Tier 1 semi finals after big wins at the weekend. We weren't that far away from them and very sweet to get some revenge on Tyrone after pipping us to an Ulster SF spot. Would be a brilliant achievement to go on and lift a cup now.

Its live on TG4 YouTube for anyone that can't make it

All-Ireland MFC Tier 2 final
Cavan v Kildare, Pairc Tailteann, 12.30pm - TG4 YouTube 

Absolutely, it might have padded the attendance for the Senior. Cavan support is bound to be withering after the last two games. Perhaps they're playing the minor games early on a Saturday to suit lads doing exams?

New job or a replacement?

They are looking to change the format of the All Ireland series next year

A competition structure previously used in the Kerry senior football championship is considered the early favourite to replace the current All-Ireland SFC round-robin format.

The idea of a knock-out Sam Maguire Cup with second chances for counties defeated in the first round gained support at roadshow meetings in Munster on Monday and Leinster on Tuesday this week.

It is the first of six options put forward by the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) to change the All-Ireland senior football championship.

The last 16 (Round 1) would comprise the eight provincial finalists in one bowl and the seven best league finishers and Tailteann Cup winners from the previous year.

In Round 2A, the eight winners from the last 16 would face off to earn four All-Ireland quarter-final places while in Round 2B the eight losers would compete to avoid elimination and qualify to face the Round 2A losers in Round 3 for the remaining four last-eight spots.The document reads: “It is a proposal the CCCC are recommending that counties give serious consideration as it has the potential to ease congestion in the calendar and create a greater ‘level’ of jeopardy than the current structure with its four-team round-robin groups.” The second-round winners and losers structure was in place in Kerry between 2002 and ’19 and has been in operation in other counties such as Laois.

Another option the CCCC see merit in is provincial champions going through to the All-Ireland quarter-finals and the other 12 teams competing in four groups of three to join them. However, that would mean a five-week wait to the last-eight games for the Connacht and Munster winners and four for the Leinster and Ulster victors.

The four other suggestions are listed but not endorsed by the CCCC – the introduction of a third tier All-Ireland SFC for Division 3 and 4 teams, a return to knock-out Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cup games post-provincIn compiling the proposals, the CCCC acknowledged the lack of jeopardy in the current system whereby three teams from four qualify for the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals. They also highlighted the need for a gap week between the league finals and commencement of the provincial championships at the same time minimising the break between teams going out of the provinces and their first Sam Maguire/Tailteann Cup game.

This year, Monaghan had a six-week gap between losing an Ulster opener to Cavan and facing Kerry in their first Sam Maguire group fixture.ial, operating the provincial championships on a tiered basis as per the Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cup and starting the inter-county season with the provincial championships followed by the Allianz Leagues and then a round-robin All-Ireland.

its great to see Mcveety back. No killian Clarke, killian is badly missed around the middle of the field he was having a very good league campaign.

Team on Facebook has Gunner and Paddy Meade on subs too?