The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

I'm not saying it is the case, but even if all the reporters missed it, I would have assumed we would have heard about it before now.

On a separate note, were the two teams listed for McKenna cup the first time Mickey has teams start as named in the programme? Is it a New Year's resolution from Cavan? No more dummy teams? Would make the first 5 minutes a lot handier as a supporter 😊

Listened to the Jac Mac podcast earlier and whilst I wouldn't always agree with Martin Tynan, I would agree with him that, well, it's Leitrim! We're a team backboned by a core of players who played Division 1 football in 2017 and 2019 and were competitive at that level.

Forget about talk of tight pitches, suspensions etc. We need to be winning this game. Maybe not by the 7 to 10 points Martin suggests but we should be winning it with a minimum of fuss or we may start concentrating on the hurlers!

good selection there, I would be happy enough if that team was selected

You could at least let us know what he is doing?

Is that Tynan fella the lad that had the Facebook page "bring back pride to cavan" or something like that? If it is I'd say you could write on a matchbox what he knows about football

Thats him, he’s from Ramor. He had a page about Seanie Johnston at one point too. He played for Cavan minors around the early 90s.

What annoys me about his page is he constantly lifts posts from club pages or Cavan Old Irish Photos on Facebook and presents them as his own rather than sharing them from those pages and giving them the credit for the item.

In fairness, he had a decent football career with Ramor but I don’t think his personality suits running a page like that or being on a podcast.

The JMac podcast is amateurish compared to We Are Cavan but they have had some good interviews in the past with the likes of Ricey when he started with Cavan.

I assumed kids u16 free at gate, I'm bringing my 2 without tickets anyway.

Team named, you got it nearly right, Moynagh named instead of Fortune, Jason named at corner back, Conroy at 11. No Gearoid in the 26, Martin Reilly on the bench.

Will be interesting to see if that is the actual 15 that starts and if those positions are where they start.

Does Niall Murray’s bad injury in 2020 mean he is just curtailed to being an impact sub now? Would be great to see him nearing the levels of 2019, even just to be on the pitch for frees.

Watching the game on RTÉ tonight, it looks like the Dubs are coming back to the pack. We were very unlucky the two years we were in Division 1 to get Dublin at home in Breffni. It meant no trip to Croker which would have been novel for a League game and also that one of our home League games was taken by playing a rampant Dubs team.

Home a half hour or so and the fire is on!

You hear PL supporters talk about a wintery night in Stoke being the test of a player and that was the GAA equivalent of it.

Its tough to know what to read into it as a win is a win. Disappointing performance but got the job done.

Paddy Lynch scored some sublime scores. I thought Conor Smith made a difference when he came on with his speed and trickery but I think he should have gone for a goal with that fisted point.

You’d wonder why Moynagh is parachuted in after, to my memory, no McKenna Cup game time. He had an error strewn performance.

We seemed to be 2nd to a lot of breaking ball and carried the ball into the tackle coming out of defence which on a day like today wasn't the smartest of ideas

But I think unless people were there they have no idea how bad the conditions were and just how deceptive that wind was onfield

Big game next week I'd expect wexford to be a much stiffer test, gearoid will be a huge boost to come back, he was a huge huge miss today in those conditions

Going by the noise coming from the stand (I was too late down to get into it), there seemed to be a lot more Cavan people there than Leitrim. Apparently it was the biggest crowd Carrick has seen in a long time.

I’m not sure Wexford will be a stiffer test. There didn’t seem to be anything terrible about that Leitrim team today - I did think they had one terrible habit of running the ball into the corner too wide when attacking.

It certainly didn't work yesterday as he was too isolated. We don't tend to kick the ball in either. The referee missed a number of blatant frees around the forward line too. One of the Leitrim backs slid along the ground and clearly handled the ball on the ground twice and nothing given. At another stage one of our forwards, can't remember who, was running along the endline and went past the Leitrim back and was clearly having his arm held and again nothing given. That's what ya get in Division 4 though.

I think Moynagh would be better worked up to speed through coming on as a sub. Did Oisin Kiernan take a free at one stage yesterday too? I certainly hope we don't go back to the days of various different free takers.

I was surprised conroy didn't take some off the ground