The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

O'Kane on Irish News saying that the decision will be reversed. Fair enough. However I'm not buying some of his clearly "unbiased" (ahem) coverage:

"It’s expected that a decision will then be taken that would hand home advantage back to Antrim and alleviate the growing pressure on the provincial body over the issue.While the decision to move the game was defended by Colm O’Rourke on RTÉ’s League Sunday on the grounds that “you could be expecting a crowd of 15,000 at a game like that”, a neutral venue was never expected to attract anything close to that figure. The 2pm Saturday throw-in coupled with live coverage on BBC NI and the April weather meant realistic forecasts had been set at around 5,000 spectators."

Post Covid crowds are well up for inter-county games, so I don't know where O'Kane is pulling the 5,000 figure out of.

So twice the capacity of Corrigan?

I’d prefer 2 on a Saturday than 2 on a Sunday. Have missed having any Saturday League games this year.

I really like Niblock and i think he wears his heart on his sleeve, but he's not remotely impartial. By and large, the BBC are very pro-6 counties when commentating on Ulster but are suitably partisan when any Ulster team is playing. From memory, Oisin McConville was very pro-Cavan in the Antrim game to balance Niblock and Harte.

But the hysteria around this is laughable. Antrim haven't had a home game in donkeys but post "Newbridge or nowhere" debacle you have rakes of armchair GAA fans who think this is the subversion of some deeply held-principle. When fundamentally it is about actual GAA fans getting to the game.

Where and when is the Antrim game fixed for as things stand now?

Game going ahead in Corrigan Park

Have to say I'm very disappointed with the review of last week's game from the podcast. I realise it has been raised here previously that the lads are working in the county and don't want to trod on toes but, and the same happened two years ago when we had a bad loss to Clare, they shouldn't be making excuses for the players. There is no excuse for that performance and, like I said, I spoke to a player last Monday evening and they are very aware of that.

Just looking at the rankings page on this forum, and the lads have mentioned following other rankings tables that are similar to it on the podcast and you see the comment ''Tipp were the big winners of the weekend, with a solid win over a Cavan team that are consistently not performing according to their relatively-high ranking place''. That perfectly sums up our present team.

Cavan went into the Tipp game ranked 13th in the country. Tipp were ranked 24th. Our other opponents in Division 4 are Leitrim (26), Wexford (27), Sligo (29), Carlow (30), London (32) and Waterford (33). Wicklow, who beat us last year in the only game I think they have won in two years, are ranked 28th. New York (31) are actually ranked above our last two league opponents! How can it be said we shouldn't be able to beat all those teams!? I'm not interested in listening to crap about Tipp being in a do-or-die scenario and other such bull. It just doesn't cut it.

This isn't just a Mickey Graham problem either. In the 2016 qualifiers we should have beaten Derry at home. In the 2017 qualifiers, we had a bad loss to Tipp (I'm sick of hearing about them!) in a game where they were missing alot of players and Quinlivan was sprung from the bench. 2020 League our glaring loss was the aforementioned one to Clare - a game we should not be losing at home. Had we not lost it we wouldn't have been relegated.

I had a friend who had an issue with this under Terry when he felt that the media were in the team clique and didn't call people to account. I was a huge Terry supporter, my friend was not, but he did have a point - how can a journalist hold players to account if he's on the team jolly with them at the time to New York?

Surely these players now have the experience and are at a level where they should be providing consistent performances, particularly against teams where we are scraping the barrel re quality, and to make excuses for them when they simply didn't perform at the lowest level in the country isn't good enough.

What made that Longford game worse was we had to watch Meath hammer Louth after it!

We were the curtain raiser at our own home ground to Meath and Louth.

Named team is out.

Galligan

Brady Faulkner Finnegan

Ryan O’Neill Moynagh McLaughlin

James Smith, Clarke

Cian Madden McKiernan Gerry Smith

Conroy Lynch Caoimhin

We Are Cavan mentioned that a couple of players were dropped due to a disciplinary indiscretion and that allowed Caoimhin to get his chance. Conor Madden & Cormac O’Reilly would it be?

Named on the bench.

Motoring nicely so far

4 or 5 wides is disappointing as Cavan need a statement win after the loss last week. Not that I’m complaining about 1-05 scored so far but would love to see us get ten points or more ahead by HT.

That's a disgrace...

It was London.... Sideways, backwards etc

As for those pair on northern sound pure tripe too

Graham would to get his act together fairly lively

I stopped listening. We just about struggled over the line against London.

Something isn’t right in the camp. It can’t be.

How the hell have we gone from a yoyo Div 1/Div 2 team to this rubbish. Is it the players or the management?