They have even had ladies club championship games in there lately…
11 pts was very low scoring by Cavan Gaels in good conditions. Emmanuel Shehu was good but not enough support for him. Gowna have a good spread of scoring forwards and can spring Oisin Pierson from the bench. Gowna pulled away after the Conor Madden goal, he had a good second half.
Good win for Gowna but they will hope to avoid Ramor in the semi final. They can’t even beat them at U16 as their amalgamation lost the Division 1 final today. Terrible to see we can let Cavan Masters onto Breffni pitch but not U16 juveniles for a final.
I’ve seen counties like Armagh have huge build up to juvenile finals with interviews with the captains and player profiles but in Cavan the finals are hurried through away from our county ground and then we wonder why lads aren’t bothered playing for Cavan.
Maybe Cavan GAA should remember “give respect, get respect” applies to more than referees.
Very tough conditions for football last night and a real scare for Crosserlough. Arva kicked a 2 pointer effort just wide with a couple of minutes left and a goal in it. Had that gone over the kick out would have been very interesting with momentum completely against the reigning champions.
They scraped home. They don't seem to be firing. Some of their main players, while not far off form, are just making poor decisions and errors. Arva are a good team to be fair. But it's not a bad position for the Lough to be in going into a semi final. If you're going to time your run then the semi final stage is when to up the gears. Who will be their opponents? There's clear favourites in the other quarters but the weather could be a real leveller.
Yes Arva gave a really good account of themselves to be fair. They really grew into the game, looked like it was going to be a whitewash after 10 minutes. If they can get the management issue sorted over the winter they should be looking to push on next year.
Hard to know what to make of Crosserlough, always seem to be picking up injury's to their key men. They will need to improve big time to go back to back . They seem to have regressed from last year on current viewing but maybe they will time their run perfectly over the next few weeks.
Arva gave Crosserlough a good test. Maybe if Barry Donnelly was available it could have been the difference.
Yeah seems so. I had thought he was Monaghan after his stint with Blackhill
My understanding is he’s from Cootehill.
Arva had a decent enough league and just missed out on league semi. Then got rid of the McCormicks after the league. Apparently some of the countymen weren't happy with the management.
Think Aidan is a Monaghan man, but has been coaching in Cavan for many years now over various teams
Other way round for Ciaran Reilly. From Arva originally, but living in Mullahoran for yonks now
Ciaran Reilly is over Ballinagh, from Mullahoran but lives in Arva. He managed them in 2013 when the won the Co title.
Ciaran O Malley seems to pop up at a different club every year. He is over Killinkere this year.
If you look at the clubs in relegation on the flip side, it doesn’t read well for Cavan managers - Laragh, Castlerahan & Killygarry all managed by men from their club. Are Ballinagh also? I think they are but not sure.
Mullahoran being managed by Aiden McCabe, he is a Cavan man though obviously not from Mullahoran, generally seems the way at senior level at moment, have an outside person with some club selectors in beside them.
Holla’s brother I think is helping out with them since the McCormicks left.
Anyone know who had actually replaced Finbar Reilly in Arva?
They haven't been overly impressive to date in the championship, I would have fancied them as a dark horse to make a semi final with a full team/Finbar Reilly.
Happens more in Senior. At Intermediate and Juniors its mostly managers from Cavan,or people living in Cavan like Keelin Malaniff. Niall Lynch is over his home club cuchullains. Martin Cahill over Cornafean.
Clontibret to Gowna would be over an hour. Corey must be getting well paid.
One thing I've noticed from listening to the different interviews with managers post game on WAC is the amount of outside men.
See below Senior teams in quarter finals.
Mark McHugh confirmed as the new Westmeath manager. I see the 2 Tyrone men that are with Crosserlough are in the backroom team
Assistant Manager/Selector – Emmet McDonnell (Coralstown Kinnegad)Head Coach/Selector – Ryan Daly (Tyrone)Coach – Stephen “Archie” Beattie (Tyrone)
Endless arguments on the internet about Cavan GAA
Two pointers by all accounts
That's interesting. What does he fish for?
They are not rumours. People from Kingscourt told me at the game yesterday he’s definitely going. It’s no secret.
Yeah I'd agree with that. The fact we seed the quarters based on only playing 4 of the other 11 teams is really strange. Suppose you have to make it worth something to ensure all R4 group games have something to play for
Ramor had possibly the strongest lineup available out. They just looked not up for it at all. Possibly the two handy games before hand hasn't helped and maybe one eye on next weekend. I would hope they were holding something back for next weekend.
Also Gowna had a point to prove after last years game.
Still I fancy Kingscourt to win it and if they rumours doing the rounds about Falkner heading on his travels next year are true would be great to see him go out with a SFC medal..
Okay strange was the wrong description, yes poor outcome might be a better way to put it. There is an argument to also having the quarter finals as an open draw with the caveat that you don't play a team you already met in the Group games.
That's not a strange outcome at all, it's showing up the system to be a poor one.
Ramor had full team out and got nearly a half of football into Matthew Smith - he will be a massive addition at the business end. They were disappointing but all credit to Gowna, they were really good yesterday and regardless of what the match meant they laid down a huge marker for the rest of the championship.
Next week
Gowna to have way too much for an improving Gaels
Crosserlough to beat Arva by close to 20 points. The 5 day turn around really hinders a team with less depth.
Ramor to bounce back and see off Mullahoran. Mullahoran have improved and usually give Ramor a tough game, however I think we'll see a big reaction in Ramor and could run out easy enough winners this time.
Kingscourt to deal with Ballyhaise in a similar fashion to how they met earlier. Ballyhaise will be happy enough with their year considering they have lost 2 of their main players.
Another strange outcome is that the 3 of the 4 are repeat parings.
And like we had the game weeks. The IFC and JFC started 2 weeks before SFC, and had their quarters one week before SFC quarters. No need for that. Start SFC a week earlier, have this weekend just past as your break weekend, let the IFC and JFC quarters breathe on their own weekend. Fixtures committee messed this one up
That is madness alright, they had quarter finals on the Friday before but i think there was always the week break before so much fairer.
