The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

14,500 in January 2004 when they played Meath but health and safety put pay to that

I was there ! It was some match, one of the best Cavan games, I remember someone from Roscommon laughing about Michael brides physical size and saying was the Cavan i16s playing when the team came out they were fairly impressed with him after.

Yeah 2002. God the final against Tyrone was some come down. It was sunshine and vibrant football in Mullingar, it was torrential rain and being bet out the gate by Tyrone. Canavan was majestic that day.

Yeah those of us who got tickets are 100% going to be in a minority. They're normally poorly supported but goes to show you that success brings in fans.

it’s being moved to tullamore! Word from Mullingar county board tonight

Have to completely disagree with you here. 12pm is a mad time for a game for what is one of the longest trips in the province. Getting 16 year olds up at 6am, trying to carb load them, on the bus for over 2 hours, get there in time for sufficient warm-up etc is not right. I was at the match. Clear the lads were off it 1st half, but came rightly back into it 2nd half where they were way better but kept getting suckered when they had to all out attack. The travel absolutely had an effect that early

Shouldn't have to be a case that they get a hotel or staying over. Literally no need when they could instead set the match for 2pm. Crazy you'd even say that when we already have rising costs in GAA. Like look at the semis this weekend. Omagh not as bad a trip, but still a trip. 12pm again. Meanwhile neighbouring counties Donegal and Derry is on at 2pm for shorter journey. This is literally just stupid stuff from Ulster and not good to be doing this to young lads. Both these times should be reversed

Got sorted yesterday for tickets, but was a bit of a shambles from Ticketmaster. Wasn't a 5 minute sell-out, was still some available half an hour after. Just was a case of only adult tickets. if anyone selected Student/OAP or Juvenile they said no tickets at all, but was a way to select 2 x adult a few times etc and get sorted

Cavan county board paid for an overnight stay in a Cavan hotel for the senior team and mentors for a home game last year. In that cost environment, I don’t see the issue with our minors staying overnight in Derry before a championship game and early throw in.

Home game vs Donegal which iirc was a record loss. They stayed in Farnham Estate.

In this day and age the GAA and ticketmaster should be looking at previous attendance for games like this. I know a few lads who would miss very games league and championship who will be sitting at home due to bandwagon supporters. I'd say theres quite a few Westmeath fans feeling the same.

There's very few Cavan bandwagon supporters at the moment sadly!! Westmeath traditionally had very poor support. Coming off their win in the Tailteann Cavan easily outnumbered them in Mullingar in the league. I was talking to a few Westmeath lads beforehand and they were scathing about the lack of support. So if they can build something based on wins, good attacking football and a charismatic media friendly coach, it might be worth exploring in other counties….

The same bandwagoners who took the corn from our mouths!?

Anyone else finding WAC’s opinion on the minors inconsistent? A couple of weeks ago O’Hanlon was making the most of a limited bunch of players and they had no stand out players like Bradley from Derry. Personally, I would agree with the first part but not the second - they aren’t as good as last year’s team as a whole but have better individuals.

After a comfortable win, albeit it against a team they described as “unfit” and “poor”, on the latest edition all is very positive again.

Our minors are a dread to watch. The TG4 commentator is losing his mind. 0-01 to 0-01 after 19+ minutes.

Total meltdown ... I know they are kids but FFS