The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Ah you can't say that was Mullahoran at their best with the wides, dropped short, and missed shots. Mullahoran looked way better than Ramor yesterday, apart from the scoreboard. They're creating chances so sort the shooting and they can get better. They do seem to match up well vs Ramor recently though. We'll see next weeks vs Castlerahan if they have improved

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Fairly young. Lot of lads are late teens early 20s and coming off a number of good minor teams. Still have a few older lads like Gunner and Duffer, while only some like Cormac O'Reilly is mid 20s. Bit of an issue is the middle group of mid to late 20s. A lot of lads missing due to emigration Gavin Brady, Callum Mussi etc are away. While it was a bit of a lean period in the club anyway, those losses are a bit exacerbated. If they had their full compliment of middle and experienced players, you could fairly integrate in the youth quite well and I'd be sure they'd give the Championship a rattle in next few years

Thanks. Glad to see them back at the top table and hopefully they can back that up. Emigration has been the ruin of many a strong country team.

A game against Castlerahan or Laragh will tell you nothing. I wouldn’t be getting excited over a result against them if you have aspirations of challenging at senior.

Well I do expect Castlerahan to be better than that, especially after a decent enough League where they just missed out on a semi spot. Be do mean more about shooting which was quite poor Sunday night. But also to see if they are breaking away from the middle of the pack more towards the top. Need to make a statement I suppose. Game is Ballymachugh so tight enough venue

Best of luck to McCabe. Seems to be a bit divisive between supporters and probably even players, but sure look, maybe someone with a thick neck is needed. Word was some current players approached him to run for this. He probably did want the gig soon, but maybe expected Galligan to do his 3rd year and he'd have had 2 years done in Westmeath by then. By all accounts he is a very shrewd football mind and reads the game well. Lord knows we could do with a manager who can look at the game under the new rules and might be able to come up with a plan and system that would work for us and/or change on the fly as we see things during a game

If he comes in and does well, then that works for me. He really does seem to love Cavan football anyway in his way, and what I would like to see is if he sticks at it. Not sure what way this works with the day job (as he's about the place anyway, no harm to be there prepping for Seniors too) and if he takes U20s too or has a role overseeing. We continually see elsewhere that managers who stay in place for longer than the 2 years can solidify and get results. If we get that continuity and we get results then I'll be happy. Lots of ifs there though

Were you disgusted with the last appointment? Say what you like about the Gowna Development Manager, and I’m no fan of him, but he has more managerial experience than the last man in the role.

Big positive is he had Westmeath playing attacking football. They were regulated but were not badly shown up in the league. We have a better panel than them, so I would suspect a more attack minded set up.

While he jas rightfully taken some attacks over the youth set up, he knows the players coming through and what they bring so another positive.

The Gowna teams he was involved in these past few years played good football too.

All we ask of managers to to get the best out of the lads consistently and play a good brand of football.

There is a massive rebuild incoming, some lads will be stepping away over the next few years but with Paddy Lynch, McEvoy, Carolan , O'Donnell among others still about the spine of a good team is there.

Martin Tynan is taking it well.

Well it seems like a farce of a process but what can we do now but wish him well and hopefully he can get players behind him and prove doubters wrong.

Absolute farce of a process.

Given the job without a finalized backroom team or competitive process.

The backroom team is arguably more important than any manager in most counties.

Backroom team wouldn't might not be much use there hardy going to try and tell himself what to do.

It is what it is now at this stage so we may as well get behind it.

In terms of background team, if I was too hazard a guess I would think he will bring along Mark McHugh and Fintan Reilly who he has worked with in recent time . McHugh was highly regarded in Westmeath and obviously has the Cavan connection..

After that it could be anyone, I would hope he also tries to bring in someone with lots of intercounty experience at a good level.. Maybe a Stephen Rocthford or a Dessie Farrell. If either of the above got involved it would lift the mood around this appointment.

It was a farce with the last candidate too. Sure why do you think the Shercock man who runs the CU in Virginia (I won’t risk the ire of Celt262 on spelling again) walked away?

It was known weeks before who had the job. No proper process whatsoever.

Nothing will change in there either. They just move around the seats..