The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Armagh incoming

Id love a crack at westmeath though

Westmeath was always coming. The GAA love a story to sell tickets.

We won’t beat them. They are playing well. We’re at rock bottom.

I'm happy enough with that draw . Should be a bit of bite on the line with the bull and the Westmeath crowd so it'll be entertaining if nothing else

I don't think we are at rock bottom but we are low and there is always a sting in a dying wasp

I'm just glad it's not Armagh for another drubbing

Good to see Cian O'Reilly back for Killygarry and Barry Donnelly for Arva.

John Heslin back with Westmeath, that's worth 5 or 6 points to them

I was at the Donegal game, and I cant say conservative. They were 1-8 to 0-2 up early on and missed 2 great goal chances, and the goal Donegal got was from a poor kick pass, and Donegal kicked on in to a purple patch and went in at HT only 2 or 3 Down, nip and tuck second halg, Donegal definitely better on kick outs, but it was entertaining. Re Derry game, I wasnt at but from chatting to someone who was, they started slowly, but pressed high in the second half and were wasteful.

Lacking size and probably not as good as last year but the young lad from Gowna, Jake Brady looks very good, and Graham is a handful. Imade from the Bridge has some engine on him as well.

Aye, so much talk about the minor game being at midday wouldn’t be what supporters want to hear. If that’s being suggested as reasons for poor performances or results then where do you go…………..! Bizarre!

So much for being too conservative as well, piled into Armagh and scored 2-23, any day you beat an Armagh team by 20 points up there is a good one.

That was a great performance today by the minors

Is it a bad Armagh team or are they pretty good . I guess we'll know this time next week

I thought Derry knocked out Cavan couple weeks ago in minor.

How does this work was that a different competition?

Was at the Donegal game in Breifni last year and the final against Tyrone. They were not conservative against Donegal especially in 2nd half where they blitzed them in a 15 minute period and were also very well prepared for them around the middle of the park. The final in Enniskillen was played in bad conditions with a really strong wind that Cavan had in first half and didn't make the most of but not a game you could define how the team approaches games.

They seem to have rang a few changes for today and regardless of how poor Armagh are look to have put in a very good performance. Tyrone next week will clearly be a tough task but Monaghan beat them in the minor league final though then lost to them by 7 in this championship. Will need a start like they got today and not the one against them in the league when game was over after 20 minutes.

I posted here last year about my thoughts. They were conservative. I watched the manager run down the sideline and accost a player for even thinking about kicking a sideline ball forwards in one game. Last year they had 3 very talented attacking players and didn’t use them correctly IMO. The ball wasnt let in - in one game (it was either Donegal or Derry iirc), the ball was let into Quigley once and when it was, it ended up in the net. He’s a forward good enough to go straight from minor into the 20s this year. They also had this year’s captain and another player scored 1-12 available last year. The system is more about possession. It would actually suit a team like this years, who are limited, better than last year’s side.

In senior team news, a genius move by our county board securing the manager who we will now be told started the Westmeath football revival.

I don’t agree re the travel excuses. For a start, it’s the same for every team. Secondly, these are lads 16 and 17 who are used to travelling on school trips etc. If the travel is that big an issue, bring them up the night before.

That said, our county board are cutting corners wherever they can so we can have a hotel in Breffni so mightn’t sanction the cost. It doesn’t seem they want to sanction much when it comes to actual football lately.

One would almost think you had an agenda against our Dermot and every other Cavan team at this stage ... We'll put it up to westmeath in 2 weeks time and don't be surprised if we turn them over ...they are far closer to our level than they are to the Dublin of a few years back and don't let the noise and media hype blinker you ....

Is that the height of our ambition now, to "put it up" to Westmeath. I don't know Cavan King, dont agree with everything he says but by any metric or any measure, Dermot McCabe's reign as Cavan manager (so far) has been very poor and his long reign as games Development Manager has been nothing short of a calamity by any measure. I would like to see anyone make a coherent case to the contrary.