The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

They put Rodgers on him.

FFS McKiernan go home

So do we go to the tailteann cup ?

Ah FFS . We'll be cannon fodder

On the way back from Derry, disappointed with the performance all round. Mc cabe showing us another example of the jobs he’s doing with our underage, a sub keeper who has never played a minute in goals and gets the nod at no.16. Should we not have developed 1/2 other keepers in the last 10+ years?

Our best goalkeeper of all time never played in goals before Hyland brought him in so I wouldn't be using that as a stick to beat with. If the quality is not there it is hard to develop players we can only deal with what we have.

Division 2 next year

Cavan

Monaghan

Dublin

Tyrone

Louth

Down

Wexford

Derry

That could be very very messy.

We’re way behind in terms of development for any quality that is or could be there. There has been too much penny pinching to save for what is going to be a white elephant in Breffni.

I posted last Summer we are even behind Fermanagh, who are another struggling county. If we aren’t even matching them, how can we expect to compete?

It’s not like we have a strategy to try and bridge the gap if we can’t by matching expenditure. As others have said, we’re just poorly copying what other counties do.

Connolly is probably a similar age to when Galligan went in goals. According to this article, he was 21 in 2018 so is about 29 now.

https://www.gaeliclife.com/extra-time/five-minutes-with-cavans-ryan-connolly/

Galligan was born in 1987 and made his debut in goals in 2015 so was 28 or so, certainly not mid 20s.

I do agree though it shows poor development when the man directly charged with developing players is importing midfielders from Galway and turning outfielders into keepers.

Again, though also, someone referenced Mickey Graham here the other day, I always said it was an absolute joke that Galligan played practically every minute of every game, even in McKenna Cup games and dead rubbers in low divisions.

Starting 4 years later can make a huge difference in development and longevity, but yes it’s a worrying sign.
the county board needs to take action.

The way this war in Iran is going there will be no developments taking place the price of materials will see to that.

I doubt if you can reduce capacity in a stadium without knocking the half of it and building it back up again i don't think anyone would be on for that.

What way does the All-Ireland Series work anyway this year is it a open draw for Round 1?

"Eight Round One winners advance to Round 2A with the losers going to Round 2B. The four Round 2A winners will qualify for the quarter-final stage. Round 2A losers will meet Round 2B winners in Round 3 (preliminary quarter-final)."

@Breffniblue71 how many Cavan fans do you reckon were there? All joking aside if we had 20 I think that was it- unless there was a clatter on the terrace.

I actually went up fearing the worst. Given how a poor Offaly team cut us open, I thought Derry might give us an unmerciful trimming. Looked a bit tighter at the back, kicked some good scores and left some goals behind us. Actually played better against Derry than we did against Offaly

Was at the game yesterday. Not too disappointed overall. That might sound odd, but based on prior and all that. Staying up was the main thing, and thanks to Louth we did that. Shouldn't have to come to that, but here we are and the 2 games we did win means we are the 6th best and that's that. With layout as it is, would take 2 D3/D4 teams reaching finals to knock us out of Sam.

On yesterday. I think we went ok. I note some comments above on how Derry were etc but I always find that you can't take one point on a team seemingly not bothered or in 1st gear and not how the opposing team impacted on that. We played well at times, the first quarter was good for example. I saw green shoots in our movement, our kickout strategy, and a few other things. Not perfect obviously as things were still clunky, but seeing enough to suggest we might not be far away from it coming together. And that may be at just the right time with Ulster in 4 weeks.

Derry were lucky enough 1st half. Their goal was an unexpected snatch shot (very well taken tbf) after a misplaced pass, and they got a 2 point free that should have been a free out just before, and then they got the 3 up infraction for 2 points but we did not get the same moments when they also broke it. The ref gave more than a few hometown decisions and felt they got their frees a bit easier than us overall. I've a few Derry friends and they said the same at half time.

The lads looked low on confidence, obviously, how could they not after last few weeks and the way the manager acts etc. But saying that, we showed some fight. We got back to within 2 just after half time, but then disappeared for 10 minutes where they got a run of scores. We took on the 2 pointers too late, and the day and conditions showed they could be taken and could have been closer if we went with more shots and took any of the 3 goal chances we had. Yeah I know, if my aunt had balls etc….

Lynch seems overburdened. Maybe not fully fit, and was very well wrapped up by Rodgers who's one of the best in the game. But saying that he had chances around the arc and wouldn't seem to pull the trigger as if he needed more room. He needs to be faster on the draw or dink and get that space to shoot. I think he's close to it coming together, and maybe harder ground and better conditions next month will help that

Seems we've a few lads to come back from injury next month according to Scullion after the match. Cian O'Reilly, Evan Crowe, Barry Donnelly due back, and Meade and maybe Cormac O'Reilly could be back who already got League game time. Likes of those will be a huge addition back in. A few lads yesterday just not fully up to it yet and wouldn't usually see Championship time just yet. With who does look to have form out there, and who can come back in, think it can click soon. Monaghan not going well and no reason our game can't lift when we come up against them in Clones. As said above, I saw enough yesterday of individual lads in decent form, an improved defensive set, and movement on kickouts and such that with return players we can be better. Hopefully it's onwards and upwards from here

Aodhagan Fox's history seems to be aligned with some serious organisations and people. Genuine question but which part of his competency concerns you most?