The 16 wides were a killer, game was over at half time. Is McVeety injured, he was anonymous along with James Smith. Very disappointing.
Showed them too much respect,as though they've won ulster in recent season's.they won't go far either,sitting in inviting us on, not killing us off with a 9 point lead.
A very average team, no more or less than ourselves.
God lads that was awful. Painful first half to watch. Timid in the tackle, slow build up, fumbling and then the Hail Mary from outside the scoring zone. They looked like a poorly prepared outfit that only began to try to play when Armagh had the game won. Armagh snuffed-out the dangermen and then took an unassailable lead which was never threatened.
I find their stuff interesting. They’ve had some very good journalists on lately, the bulk of whom are also tipping Cavan.
Therein lies my issue - is it a bit like more than half the country tipping Antrim to beat Cavan last year and then they were ambushed?
Nothinb wrong with pub talk. Sure isn't this forum essentially tha.
Pub talk with odd interview? What are you expecting, Mickey Graham to be in every week to tell us the tactics for the next week? Anyway if ye don't listen to it how do you know how bad it is?
Minors started the day with a big win in Antrim
Pub talk with the odd interview.
Why would anyone care what those lads say, i wouldn’t listen to them, it’s bad enough having to listen to their commentary. Sure isn’t every big game a defining game. I hope the players are confident of winning, there’s no point going out to play thinking they’re going to lose.
Will Oisin Kiernan play? I thought he missed the entire League. I can see Carolan coming in for him.
Has McCabe done enough to start? I thought Tiarnan Madden would be ahead of him.
I’d expect Conor Brady to go to midfield and Gearoid onto the square.
I have a lot of worry that there’s over confidence in Cavan. It’s bad enough when two of the lads on WAC back us but they even got Brennan on for the preview and he is too!
Yet again we hear this is the defining game for Cavan. I believe we heard that before the Donegal game last year and the Tailteann Final. Sooner or later one of these games is going to have to be accepted as defining our standard.
Yeah and wouldn't be surprised to see changes from the starting 15 with Carolan for example named on the bench. Strong bench too. Tough on Finnegan and David Brady maybe but that's the life of the manager i suppose. Conor Smith, Martin Reilly, Carolan and Conor Madden can all make big impacts off the bench and Tiarnan Madden and Boylan have lots of pace and McKenna is big and powerful to make an impact too.
Buzzing for this. Cavan by three.
Team named, expects lots of positional changes.
Raymond Galligan
Killian Clarke
Padraig Faulkner
Jason McLoughlin
Ciaran Brady
Oisin Kiernan
Gerry Smith
Gearoid McKiernan
James Smith
Conor Brady
Dara McVeety
Jonny McCabe
Cian Madden
Paddy Lynch
Oisin Brady
Is Tommy Galligan on the New York panel?
Any word lads have we a full squad to pick from ?
Be full of Armagh season ticket holders I'd say
Thanks i hadn't see that advertised anywhere.
No covered stand tickets for sale, a limited number of uncovered stand tickets on sale in Breffni park this morning.
Anyone know if stand tickets are going to be released for this game?
Those 2019 games were strange. In the first, some brilliance from Mackey saved us to bring it to ET. Then Gearoid missed a sitter of a free. In the replay, they really shouldn’t have let us back into it but somehow they did and we dragged it back.
Then in 2020, they gave us an absolute thumping in both the McKenna Cup and the first round of the League.
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.
I think we have a chance but it’s a slight chance. I’m tired of hearing about brave losses and how we matched Donegal but lost to two freak goals last year - they were two high balls we didn’t deal with.
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.
Obviously a lot more money being bet on Armagh to win. Maybe I’m deluded but I still think that if we play our best we have a chance. What odds were we before the Ulster final in 2020.
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.
Not a huge amount to be positive about from the minor game other than we didn't lie down when Tyrone looked like they would run away with it. Good performances from Shekleton and Fiachra Brady.
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.
Heard Cavan are away for the weekend and played Westmeath last night.
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.
3 games minimum is great for their development. I haven't heard much about the under 17's this year? Anyone any insight? Strength of team overall, Stand-out players?
New format this year https://ulster.gaa.ie/2023/04/2023-electric-ireland-ulster-minor-championship-officially-launched/
Is the minor championship run differently this year than previous or the same structure as in previous years?
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