The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Whats peoples thoughts on the ACFL i see Ballyhaise going well just lost there first game at the weekend to Castlerahan it will be interesting to see if they get over the line this year in the Intermediate championship with there biggest challengers probably the team that just beat them. Crosserlough flying high and with the players they have to come back from the county setup they will surely be looking at the big prize this year along with the also unbeaten Ramor. Cootehill look in bother with only 1 draw to there name and Killygarry also struggling.

Newly promoted Drumlane top of Division 3 with Cuchulainns and the bridge on there tails. At the bottom it looks like Denn are going to get relegated you would wonder has the long season last year and all that has gone on up there the last few years taken a lot out of them. Lavey surprisingly down that end of the table as well.

Division 3, Templeport going strong and unbeaten so far and Drumalee going well also. I'm a bit surprised to see Shannon Gaels at the bottom of the table along with Maghera but they will be stronger come championship with Mcloughlin back and hopefully a full fit McGovern.

The three championships look to be very competitive this year and it is hard to pick a winner in each of them. Going by form at the moment i would be going for the below but i wouldnt be suprised if none of them won.

Senior : Crosserlough

Intermediate: Ballyhaise

Junior : Drumlane

I’m happy with it. I would have preferred it to Longford, Fermanagh or Leitrim away. This North vs South section is a piss take though. North Section far stronger.

Our recent record against Down is pretty good, but in the last 4 meetings we've won games that we easily could have or should have won. Down are definitely on the slide but I am sure if there is one team they can be fired up for, it's us. They had us dead and buried in 2020 (and more or less in 2018 before they imploded) so they will want to settle a score or two (and the league game in 2018 i am pretty certain Ray was MOTM).

For us, we have to know they will come out all guns blazing and that we have to treat this like a championship match. Probably preferable for us to think this is going to be a battle as opposed to a "we only have to show up for 10 minutes and we will be grand".

Any club games scheduled for Saturday evening are now moved to Friday evening. Good to see the CB are learning from the mistakes they made earlier this year.

I'm not surprised by Ballyhaise. They aren't doing well at underage but they are bringing through two to three strong players in each squad, have big numbers and a coach down there told me they have a number of players on many of the underage development panels. They also have no county players so are not weakened during the League. Compare that to say Gowna who are a rural club performing very well but were missing a huge number of U20s and a number of seniors also. Surprising to see Killygarry near relegation with the squads they have but then they don't seem to be able to perform to their potential as a club.

I presume you mean Division 2 re Drumlane and Cuchulainns. Somebody recently told me that Division 2 would be bottom four going to play offs for relegation so Denn may have a chance yet. It's amazing that only 4 points in that Division separates 4th and 13th after 8 games. Anyone that strings together a few wins could vie for promotion.

Some teams aren't taking the league seriously at all. Very hard for smaller clubs to be missing their top players. I certainly wouldn't count Gowna out of senior when they've everyone back and playing.

Padraig Moore has also been back for Ballyhaise in most league games from what I see on Twitter and scoring heavily. He was in the county panel in 2018 i think and will be a handful for most senior defenders, let alone intermediate- IF he is about for the championship (which he hasn't for years).

I caught two league games in the last while and without naming teams, a few had "wintered well" and clearly aren't remotely near full tilt, and are probably not putting a massive shift in now. I assume that plenty of teams are going to do that.

Gowna were down the two Maddens, Brady and Pierson from the seniors and at least 4 or 5 from the under 20s for a majority of league games. With their u20s back, their results are already improving. Come championship they will be in the mix with Ramor and the Lough.

Indeed Gowna will be very strong i overlooked them they won't be far away.

I'm not sure we will have a great ''Summer'' of football to look forward to. Cavan will have max 4 games between now and 09/07/2022 if they go all the way. Then the club championship will start in August. With only two Tailteann Cup games possible in June, and the League not being taken seriously by a majority of teams, June and July look fairly sparse for top quality football. As another poster mentioned, some clubs will only start moving towards being championship ready in the next few weeks.

It's a August start so the end of the competitions will then run into the start of the Ulster club championships that's the way it has more or less always been.

Must be for Sky Sports coverage..

No i was joking i think there is one game on GAAGO this weekend.

There are games at 6.30 and 7.00 though.

Cavan v Down, Kingspan Breffni, 2pm

Leitrim v Antrim, Carrick-on-Shannon, 2pm - GAAGO

Longford v Fermanagh, Glennon Brothers Pearse Park, 6.30pm

Sligo v London, Markievicz Park, 7pm

Three WAC podcasts discussing the pros and cons of the Tailteann Cup. We're in it and the fact is we couldn't beat Fermanagh or Wicklow last year so we deserve to be in it. The season before a home loss to Clare was criminal and they're no world beaters either. It's extra games for the squad so I think we need to embrace it and we also can't afford to be looking down our noses at it. We're so inconsistent that we could easily lose to Down - even with defections, they're a better team than other sides we have lost to in the last 2 years.

Down haven't won a game all year lads and there captain rubbished the competition a few weeks ago before back tracking I wouldn't be overly concerned about them.

Before the Antrim game people were given Antrim every chance against us but they couldn't compete with us on the field. If we have no new injuries we should have a stronger panel now with the few lads that were on the bench the last day having time to up the fitness.

Agree on consistency but i think Graham will have them ready for this.

After the league i wasn't happy with the performances but rightly or wrongly i now believe Graham had they just doing enough to get by and then beat Antrim and ambush Donegal in Clones.