The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Sure playing at a lower level constantly might stop the county team trying to rush our players back and playing them injured all the time.

I’m not sure why yas are up in arms. The Gowna Development Manager is vastly experienced compared to the last man appointed to the role and I don’t remember the same level of consternation on here 2 years ago.

Always room for improvement. Realistically though you don’t see people going for the jobs so the seats get moved around.

Ramor are after giving Arva an awful hiding. Six goals. Looks like they got rid of the cobwebs from last week. Unfortunately, there has been a lot of one sided games. Absolutely no atmosphere in Breffni. You could nearly hear people talking in the stand on the stream. Cavstream would be better move away from showing games involving the big three.

The junior match on before was poor fare. Think it was 15 or 16 minutes before there was even a score. Breffni empty. Last night they stuck Ballyhaise & Kingscourt up in Mullagh and had Drumalee & Drung in Breffni on the stream for some reason.

Is it that hard to stream from most venues? Clubs are fit to use Veos now no matter where they play.

I think it’s ridiculous having junior games for lesser populated clubs in the wide open environs of Breffni.

Interesting to hear Paul Fitz backed the plan I put forward to cut the Senior to 8 clubs and 2 groups of 4. Wouid lead to better games earlier,

Arva shockingly poor this evening. Its a madone Ramor were very wasteful but still managed to put 6-11 past them, I'd fear for them against a Crosserlough or Gowna. Ramor did play some free flowing football at at times looked very good.

I'd be hoping for a Gowna, Crosserlough or Kingscourt next to really see where we are .

Ah to be fair Arva at full tilt (management included) would probably rattle Ramor big time.

That was a weird watch last night. Same point I made during the week ..it will be very hard to get relegated due to the standard of laragh/Castlrahan etc .

I was part of a team 20 years ago getting relegated from senior and I think we would push the majority of senior teams from watching the streams over the last few weeks.

200 euro is very steep for the Cavan club Championship. It doesn't include the finals. LOITV is 99 euro for a 36 league game season and covers more then one game and also first Division, and also the FAI Cup.

He has LOI TV or Cavstream on it???

Was it €80 last year?? They have some neck looking for €200.

And how does Cavan compare to other Counties. Donegal for example is 159e for their championship and they play the same format . That includes the final.

https://embed.futureticketing.ie/c/donegal-gaa/

That's my point. Fermanagh have 8, and we shouldn't compare ourselves to them. We should have more. If we go to 10 the likes of a Laragh won't be around. But also can't really help it when a club lose so many players I suppose, a lot would go poor with who they've away. Think 12 too much and 8 too few for us

Donegal has a bigger population but the same number of Clubs as Cavan 4 They probaly have more soccer clubs then Gaelic, and then Finn Harps would be their team in Loi..

Not the draw you were looking for!!!!

I know Holla and Donnelly missing, but jesus Arva were poor. Ramor could have been out of sight in the first fifteen minutes if they took their goal chances. Mc Cabe aside, Arava not at the races.

Ramor created bucket loads and Arva couldn't get to grips with Cole- although he made some uncharacteristic mistakes early on, he still is a brilliant target inside. McEvoy is a joy to watch at the moment.

I think it's probably 2 that struggle each year really. Lavey and Laragh last year, and Laragh definitely so far this year. Likes of Ballinagh and Castlerahan are lower end Senior teams, but on their day can probably beat any of the rest except the Top 3. And that's ok. They've both had a tough enough draw so far. Both hockeyed by Crosserlough who can do that to many teams. But overall you'd find both teams have a level and you will get that in any SFC in the country. They both made quarters last year with the same points Gowna had.

It's leading into as I said above. 12 is too many, but likely 8 is too few for a county of our size. 10 would be ideal. 8 to quarters, and bottom 2 battling the relegation place. The structure is a bit stale too. Clubs know they only do need to squeeze 2 results out of 4. If you draw Crosserlough, mark that down and don't risk players, and aim for the next day. Both have a more achievable game the next day

I'd agree on that, and seems the Quinn report from way back (which said 35 clubs for our population) is about right. We're at 38 so far with Corlough and Maghera out of Junior. Not sure what else can be done here. All the others field reasonably well (with some exception like you say, with lads into their 40s). It's still the most popular sport here, even if it has dropped from even 20 years ago. But fellas aren't being forced at gunpoint to play either. All over the country we hear stories of lads keeping going because they want to. Jackie Tyrrell down in Kilkenny went back to play Junior this year for example. And isn't that what Junior should be for most? It's not Senior standard and you get a mix of young and old like all over the country and that level. Shield comp shows the level of some at bottom end of Junior

Yes, I know. And you'll get that right now. It is what it is and they still had to go and win them. But that's the point I'm making. Going to 10 teams would have these teams on the button and they won't have a Lavey or Laragh to beat. A 10 team Championship means they'll be more likely to be then relegated. As it is, they are better than your Laraghs, and on their day can give the other outside the Top 3 a run for their money like we see. And that's ok. Not ever Senior team can be title contenders

Likely not alright. Sometimes a team can hold on until calvary arrives, but yeah it'll be tight going