The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Colm Keys explaining the new Championship format .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFUmvgy_osU&t=32s

I'd find it strange the lots of people from different clubs in Cavan knew that Donegal were playing Meath in Lavey off all places and that they could be bothered going. We wouldn't even know if Cavan played a challenge game but here we have lots off club men heading to Lavey in January to watch them McBrearty 👍

All very strange

Monaghan getting thumped by Down U20s which shows just how poor both Cavan and Monaghan were this year.

The Minors playing Tyrone tomorrow in the opening round in Ulster. Tyrone would be strong again at that level. 2 Tyrone schools played in the Mccrory Cup final. Omagh were impressive in the Hogan Cup final.

Anyone hear anything from a challenge match v Meath?

Thanks for this really valuable reply 👍

I know it was a joke 👍I was just curious to see if anyone knew anything.

And was taken off at half time 😀

New format this year https://ulster.gaa.ie/2023/04/2023-electric-ireland-ulster-minor-championship-officially-launched/

Yeah it's good for the Development. A couple of decent forwards, Ben Tully from Cavan Gaels Cormac McEntee Gowna. Eanna Ward of Arva is captain,plays midfield.

Another of the Shehu brothers from Cavan Gaels involved. Joshua Shehu.

A one point defeat for the minors, we seem to be back to the days of narrow losses for our underage teams.

Derry making Fermanagh look like a very ordinary team but Fermanaghs naive tactics aren’t helping them.

How ordinary Antrim & Fermanagh have looked in the past two weekends would certainly have you worrying. No matter what was at stake and what team we put out, we should have been beating those sides.

The bookies have us at 9/4 and Armagh at 4/9. I’m not a big betting man but that looks like they are firm enough favourites and the bookies are rarely wrong.

A good bit different to 2020 Ulster final. Donegal had played in lots of Ulster finals and hammered Armagh in the semi final. Cavan were coming off relegation to Division 3, and only played in patches leading up to the Ulster final.

This Armagh team doesn't have pedigree in Ulster and the game in Breffni Park. They could get a result in Breffni but haven't done enough to be firm favourites.

I give us more than a slight chance. I will stand corrected, but this is a reversal of the 2019 semi final in terms of divisional standings, and even back then we went in as slight underdogs (definitely with the analysts). We were coming down from division one and Armagh were after tearing up division three. Armagh are the most over-hyped Ulster team in the last 10 years. And a lot of that goes down to the "mystique" of their manager which is lapped up by the media.

Since McGeeney took over, they have lost to us, Down, Fermanagh and Donegal in the first round and have lost semis to ourselves and Donegal (2019 and 2020). They beat Down in 2019 and Derry in 2020 and Antrim in 2021. Three wins (and one draw) in Ulster in 7 years.

Just for the record, Mickey Graham has 7 wins (and one draw) since he took over since 2019, two finals and one Ulster.

For the record, I much prefer when we are underdogs.