baconsarnie wrote: » Similarly, after the game McConville was saying “Ciaran Brady not known for his scoring”. He was our top scorer in the league from centre half back two years ago & not far away again last year until he picked up a bad knock against Kerry. Such bluffers.
mylestheslasher wrote: » Ciaran Brady kicks a bad wide, McHugh " Cavan need to work the ball to the shooters" Ciaran Brady kicks a point 5 minutes later McHugh "that's better by Cavan working the ball to their best shooters"
rrs wrote: » McConville is a good pundit. If you nit picked what every pundit said, there wouldn't be many left. O Rourke, Canavan, McStay, Tomas O Se, McGuinness
Cavan_King wrote: » McConville is generally quite a good pundit to be fair. In regard to Brady picking up a “knock” against Kerry. He and McVeety were our two best players in the first half and both had to leave the pitch fairly lively in the second after being “caught” late.
rrs wrote: » I meant those other pundits have made errors, not talking about Cavan but generally. Des Cahill comes out of with some waffle at times too McConville probaly saw him as a half back, so he doesn't score much. Which was wrong, unless he meant in Championship football, but scored a few in championship before today.
baconsarnie wrote: » I was at the game- both were taken out. Brady didn’t regain fitness last year because of that.
Yevon wrote: » I can't see how it was a black card. The black card is a cynical behaviour foul, dragging down a player for cynical reasons, blocking a player's run with a body check, verbal abuse. It was not designed for a tussle between players during a break in play with one ending up on the ground. It was petulant and stupid from Brady but it wasn't a black card offence.
Yevon wrote: » The full forward line is a huge problem. Oisin Pierson isn't adding enough to keep his place, most of the time he gets on the ball he's well outside the scoring zone. Cormac Reilly throws himself about a bit but again, he's not getting the scores which should be the primary job of your inside line. Ted was decent in his two appearances. But he's not going to lead the line and get 3/4 points from play every game and probably doesn't have the size or speed necessary at this level. It's hard to see anyone left in the county with the tools to do that and the one lad that can is on the other side of the world at the moment.
rrs wrote: » Down will be fresh. Cavan have been battling for the last 4 weeks, including the extra time. Down had a walkover and played a second string in Louth. The Fermanagh game will have brought them on. Galway going into the Connacht final without a game. They could possibly win Sam with 3 games. It would take Cavan 3 games to reach Ulster final.
rrs wrote: » Yeah, definitely need to be overhauled. I don't there would be that much of an issue. Galway and Antrim are allowed play in Leinster Hurling Championship. In the football every County plays bar kk, just have 8 in each province. Longford, Westmeath and possibly Cavan or Donegal added to Connacht. I doubt New York or London will be playing in it anytime soon with covid.
Cavan_King wrote: » I think the provincial split has to be abandoned altogether and move into a league style format with 4 groups of 8. If you want to keep the provincial championships for historic reasons, have them replace the McKenna Cup and other similar competitions in each province. For example, if you moved Cavan into Leinster over the last decade, it wouldn't have changed that the rest of the province were very weak. Anyway, that's a different discussion. Back to the weekend's action. Just listening to RTE radio and hearing a Galway selector state that Damien Comer has a hamstring injury and is looking at 4-6 weeks. James Smith apparently has a hamstring injury too so can't see him being ready for the weekend. Interesting also in the We Are Cavan podcast that Paul Fitz commented we showed Antrim too much respect. I'm wondering was the Down/Fermanagh game the long term goal, even in that game. Down or Fermanagh are going to play very similar to Antrim - pack out the defence and break at speed. We were very risk averse at the weekend and held onto as the ball as if our life depended on it, which we also did against Monaghan. We're finishing games well and its no secret a lot of training has been put in so I wonder is the plan very much to play keep ball and stay in the game, tire the opposition out, then get on a runner like Thomas Galligan and go at the opposition second half after tiring them. I wouldn't expect to see very many changes at the weekend. Graham didn't even use the full compliment of subs at the weekend, using only Galligan, Conroy, TED and Niall Murray. Only one change even to the squad and that was enforced with Buchanan coming in for Smith.
celt262 wrote: » I don't think the plan is to tire out any team,both teams tire in second half and freshen up with subs. Down seemed to finish quite strong against Fermanagh and have had a few weeks off before last weekend so you would imagine they will be the fresher side.
Cavan_King wrote: » Yes both teams tire but we still seem fresher and are pushing on late in games. What do you think is the tactic or lack thereof? There has to be a reason that players who I've seen break lines for their clubs aren't doing it in a county jersey.
celt262 wrote: » It's hard to see what the tactic is its obvious that Antrim did tire the last day which was expected and this then allowed Cavan to close out the game. I hope it wasn't a tactic as if they had of scored that goal chance it would have given them more confidence and we would have been in bother. When the opposition drops back we have a lot of bother in breaking them down and don't seem to be good/cute enough to get through and into shooting positions. We we lucky in that regard against Monaghan that the the long range efforts went over and that they decided at half time that they had enough done to win the game. I think we need to push up and make the opposition go long with there kickouts as our midfield is more than holding their own against anyone we played in the championshp this year. By letting them build from the back once they get to our 45 strong runners will get through as has been seen in every game so far.
tayto lover wrote: » Forget about the strong finish. A strong beginning is just as important if not more important.
Cavan_King wrote: » We're getting decent turnovers though and the team under Graham have always seemed happy enough to give up kick outs in the expectation that they will win the ball further down the pitch. The team have actually come out and said they were quite happy with the Monaghan game and being seven behind at half time. Whilst that could be seen as bull now, it did sort of show in that they didn't even push forward before half time when they had the ball to try and get a point. A number of players and management have said that the win was easily a six to seven point wind.
baconsarnie wrote: » Is the game on the box on Sunday?
