The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Am I right in seeing that Sunday's game isn't on rte or gaa+

I wonder will Cavan put a man on Michael Murphy especially to do a man marking job and follow him everywhere ? Maybe killian the gunner or killian Clarke??

I don’t think James or Gearoid are available and obviously Barry Donnelly is out unfortunately , I didn’t hear anything about Conor madden or Jason.

James is doing a bit of running since last week, don’t know if he’d be fit. I would say don’t risk him when we have the chance of going further now.

Sean McEvoy also a doubt. Broken nose so it’s questionable if he can play. Hasn’t been doing contact training is my understanding.

Gearoid hasn’t been training I believe.

Team is out. Miller and McKiernan on the bench which is great to see. Strongest 26 we've had in a while. But remains to be seen if that 26 do all make it. Definitely can't see that 15 starting

Maybe I’m just forgetting but when was the last time Ryan O’Neill started a game? Seems like some time ago.

Tyrone in Omagh I thought he started? He definitely started against westmeath in the league.

I heard Dick Clerkin on the Irish Independent football podcast basically saying that McGuinness has a plan and possibly didn't want to show his hand against Tyrone and that Cavan are the perfect opponent for them to get back to winning ways and that they'll be in the quarter final and the Tyrone game will be forgotten.

I presume Dick is thinking that Donegal will just have to turn up to beat Cavan and won't have to show their hand either. Any team that is looking to win an all ireland and is giving Tyrone momentum are foolish and there is no way big Jim does not want to top the group and go straight to Quarters and get a week off which is unlikely now.

On the game that's a strong Cavan Squad hopefully we don't do what we have done in past and follow a good performance with a flat one.

Well that sounds like bs from Clerkin after McGuinness was so raging he kept them back for an hours in the dressing room in Ballybofey reading them the riot act. He absolutely cares about Tyrone and his home record

Absolutely. Lazy punditry whereas Spillane was on point. Could do with him back on the Sunday game.

Tyrone finding new ways of batin Cavan

If Mayo were to beat Donegal we are in trouble, otherwise I think we’re still okay. The group will probably have 4 teams on 2 points after today.

Once Donegal win next week, no matter what our result, we’ve Mayo on the head to head and there’d only be us and them on 2 points if we lost (which we most likely will as it’s Tyrone).

I really thought Tyrone were going to come back today when Morgan kicked the two pointer and they had it back to one.

Thanks - That's what I was thinking. Essentially, Tyrone beating Donegal last week ended up working out well for us. If they hadn't, us Tyrone and Mayo could have finished up on 2 each with score difference coming into play.

I can't see a Jim McGuiness team losing two games in the group so I would still have us in the driving seat for a preliminary quarter final .