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an wouldn’t it be lovely to see that crosserlough man back in that full forward line again sometime.

I didn't really pick up on those comments having listened to the interview - what did he state?

I'm wondering is it a bit of an Ulster media thing too - the likes of The Irish News and the Gaelic Life. Speaking to friends outside the county, ahead of the games this weekend, a few have mentioned to me that there's a feeling the Antrim game is win or go for Mickey Graham. I haven't picked up on that feeling in Cavan but it very much appears to be the opinion of the rest of the province.

Team still not released i though it had to be 48hrs before championship games.

It's good of you to speak for the man but he has given interviews himself regarding this.

'If I Took A Break But Stayed Here, You Don’t Get Away. You Would Hear Talk Constantly' | Balls.ie

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"I was chatting to Andre, our strength and conditioning coach and he said it is probably the best thing I can do.

"Every year just runs into the next. I find I have niggles then that carry over. I mean I had a grade 2 tear in my groin after the Monaghan game, I was not expecting to play against Armagh. It builds up. I had two bad hamstring tears over the last two years.

"It is a chance to take a break. Even if I take a break but stayed here, you don’t get away from it. You would hear talk constantly. 'Why aren't you in? Did something happen?'

"When you go away, you are just away. Life goes on. I always wanted to do it anyway, it fell well. It is the right time."

After he returns he will join up again with the county set-up. Football still means as much as it ever did. A step away from the mania will have major benefits in the long run.

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I don't think that sounds like a player who ''doesn't want to be there enough''. Sounds like a player who had a number of hard years playing through various injuries and realised he needed a break. There's another article if you want to search it, I know you like searching things, where he does state his intention was only to go for one year but then Covid hit.

I would also think its unfair to take his comments out of context as you have done. That quote in 2018 was about players who were available for selection but opted not to join the panel, as I'm sure you are aware.

To be honest, with your comments here about a player who gave his all for the jersey for years and captained the team, it's no wonder we have a problem attracting players like the Ramor lads this year. A bit of appreciation goes a long way.

Has your own club any players on the minor, U20 or senior setups this weekend?

Again, he's been gone 2 years. That's what is factually correct. Not 3 or ''several''. Wait until the season is over before you incorrectly label it 3 seasons.

It was only intended to be a year as per the article when he left. If you were living in Australia where Covid was having a minimal effect following the strict guidelines they initially had, would you have moved back to Ireland where we were going through lockdown after lockdown?

He also played 7 years of senior football but had been involved with underage intercounty panels at least as far back as the 2010 minor team. I would imagine he was on development panels before then too. So you're looking at ten years plus of intercounty action.

It's a GAA forum. They are your GAA club. I find it interesting that you'd try to use items like looking up the Crosserlough minor team results against me yet you'll repeatedly refuse to confirm your own club.

I actually brought up the topic on this occasion because I wouldn't mind ending this conversation and usually asking you your club causes you to scarper from a discussion because you seem to have a fear of providing it!

Doing ourselves no favours here. The lack of a man inside is killing us. It seems to be shot from distance or lose the ball. 4 or 5 silly wides.

Saying that playing very well until we get to shootong

Jaysus this ref is doing us no favours.

Absolute sickener. Referee was a disgrace. No yellows for Tyrone for cynical tackles. An overcarry against Cavan after a man only after receiving a pass. And the amount of soft frees. The defensive unit were brilliant and dominated both kickouts. Walking out a Tyrone man said to me that the ref was awful against Cavan.

That’s a tough one to take. So dominant in the first half but only one up. O Rourke was having some first half but ran out of steam in the second. Tyrone upped their intensity and their tackling was great but we did run into some dead ends.

showed some great heart when we went three down and two wides could’ve gotten us over the line or a draw. We were the better team over 60mins barring the 15 mins or so when Tyrone got on top in midfield.

finally, that is one of the worst refereeing displays I’ve seen in years. Not just the soft frees given to Tyrone, the lack of cards was appalling. Madden pulled down and the called for carrying- some of it was just laughable. I can’t even be bothered to try and list them all. We were playing 16 men, plain and simple.

Fair enough. But with such fine margins it is important to realise that playing against the ref didn’t help.

given how good Lovett was today, I was surprised we didn’t try to get the ball to him more in the second half. He kicked three from play and we got three scores from frees he won. Two lovely scores from Madden at the end too.

but the wides in the first half cost us.

It was absolutely shocking. I don’t know when I’ve seen worse. I’ve seen bad calls but I don’t know if I’ve seen an inter county game where a ref essentially decided to back one team the whole game.

those lads did us proud but I can’t help feeling for them that after all that effort to be denied by an absolutely shocking referee.

Unless you’re alleging that he was bribed by Tyrone, what is the relevance of that article?

As other posters have alluded to, you’re reaching “keyboard warrior” status with your online searching now.

Tyrone got kickable frees for minimal contact while we couldn't buy one for most of the game. The couple of times he blew us for overcarrying aswell....

We certainly missed more than one free.

Having rewatched the first 40 minutes of the game this morning, is it because Martin McHugh brought us the success in 97 with a Donegal style hand passing game but why don’t we kick more? Other than Daragh Lovett kicking a score, no Cavan player kicked the ball until 3 minutes into the game when Niall Carolan kicked a ball and, surprise, surprise, we got another score off it.

I’m not one of the lump it in brigade (Cavan didn’t even tend to kick the ball when out the pitch last night) but the ball moves quicker than any player. Tyrone got their scores off having a lot less possession because they kicked the ball up the pitch so they could progress at speed.

In the second half, our endless handpassing meant they just pushed right up on us and swallowed us up and there didn’t appear to be a plan B. I’d also ask why Daire Madden wasn’t on the pitch earlier.

Tired of hearing whingeing about the referee. We had 6 points at half time. 8 points after 33 minutes and finished the game with ten. You win very few games scoring 2 points in the last 30 mins (27 plus 3 additional).

Any word on the starting 15 for today?