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We won the game so it’s not the worst ever. That said, Mickey has now overseen some terrible results on his watch. Wicklow last year was arguably the worst ever.

The 2012 home loss to Offaly still holds a place in my heart as the “worst ever” - that I witnessed anyway. They were one of the worst intercounty teams I had ever seen and they beat us.

In relation to the drop in performance, Tipp have the excuse of a high turnover of players from 2020. We’ve lost few if any.

These players are all highly experienced and are winners at both underage and senior level so I don’t think it’s them. I’m not a fan of changing the manager too much but Mickey & the lads need to find out what is wrong quickly and address it.

Nope, we are not promoted. We are playing officially the worst team in the country next weekend so, as bad as things seem to be, you’d have to expect we will win. It really would be the “worst ever” if we didn’t.

Tipp beat Carlow by double scores today and are motoring well after a poor start. Unless there’s a dramatic improvement, we won’t be winning League silverware this year either.

I think they should give Ray an Xbox with Fifa 2022 next weekend so he can be in charge of every pass in the game and give the sub goalie a run out.

Ray has played every minute of every game under Graham. If poor aul Liam Brady doesn't get a run out this weekend, then when will he?

Oisin was injured and yeah only match squad were allowed travel.

Where did you see that it was switched to 6pm on Saturday?

Mickey Brennan and Damien Donohoe said on the commentary that Oisin Kiernan was injured.

The Waterford Cavan game has been switched?

My other big worry is that we could do with putting up a bit of a blanket ourselves as we are being cut wide open at the back on occasion. It's confusing how we are so pedestrian going forward yet so easy to get at in the backline.

Yea League Finals are usually Div 4 and 3 on the Saturday and Div 2 and 1 on the Sunday but looking at the GAA website they only have Div 1 that weekend.

Yep, that’s my understanding. Remember getting a late night division three game one Saturday night.

beaten by the Rossies in a league final. Which was the style at the time.

It's a strange setup at the moment. Carlow vs Wexford is at 1 Saturday. Cavan vs Waterford at 6. London vs Tipp at 7. Sligo and Leitrim the next day on Sunday is at 1. I thought the Sligo Leitrim game is the one people was arguing should be moved as it's a pointless game if both Cavan and Tipp win, therefore it would be better off being at the same.

I was trying to get my head around it, but there is no sense at all to it. To me, it's a typical response to division four as if "sure what does it matter what goes on there". I think it's very disrespectful to the likes of Sligo & Leitrim who have trained and put the graft in to possibly play a game without anything at stake. We all want the last day drama, the aul fellas with the radios pressed to their ears... (or young fellas with their fancy Twitter updates).

People have been saying that re the hard training and being sluggish since last year! Part of Andre Quinn's role is to have them ready. We're only 4 weeks from Championship now and it appears there are a number of injuries that need to be cleared up. It'd be good to get minutes into the legs of Conor Brady, Conor Smith and Martin Reilly, for example, before the start of championship.

At least the podcast was a bit more realistic in their review of the London game. The performances are way below par so far this year. I thought our scoring statistics were shocking. Gearoid top scorer from play over 7 matches with 1-18. Caoimhin Reilly is in the top five scorers I think with 1-4! You're watching League Sunday and seeing Sam Mulroy kick 1-9 in a single match for Louth. Shane McGuigan regularly does similar for Derry.

You also see the scores that Tipp and Sligo are putting up on teams and we are getting nowhere near that. We're playing Division 4 football and haven't hit the 20 point mark in any game yet.

You are indeed correct in regard to the forwards. There is far too much sideways, lateral and robotic play. As you say, players afraid to make a mistake. It's as if players are afraid to kick the ball and lose it. I was talking to a supporter the other evening who felt this is nothing new. He pointed to Chris Conroy against Dublin in the All Ireland semi final. He felt Conroy tried a couple of kick passes that went astray and was then hauled off.

I don't know if Mickey is trying to mimic Dublin under Jim Gavin but I think teams have moved on from that. Listening to an interview with Niall Morgan the other day, he pointed to how Tyrone go for far more long kick outs now because, even if they lose the ball, the opposition has to get back through their defence. If they take a short kick out, its disaster if they lose the ball and its a lot of work to get it up the pitch if they do keep it. That is a big change from the last decade where we saw very few midfield aerial battles.

Football is evolving constantly and it would be very difficult to carbon copy the system of that Dublin team of the last decade.

Another mention for us on the latest podcast. Apparently the pair of bucks were just giving their honest opinion on the Tipp game and other people are entitled to their opinion but Damien would have more respect if they emailed in their criticism. I have no issue with that but my gripe is I don't find it realistic to say that Cavan missed 5-21 or whatever ridiculous stat was being rolled out.

A lot of people around the county are talking about how they feel stats are ruining the team and certainly a stat like that is an attempt to brush over what was another poor display. There was a bit more realism this week with the criticism of the London game but there were also mentions now of how Cavan supporters are unhappy with winning 5 out of 6 games. As I've pointed out previously of course we are. We're a a team as per most ranking tables that are around 13th in the country whereas every team in this Division is at least ten places below us with Tipp being the highest at 24th.

I'm not sure why there appears to be a clear inaction to get some new contributors onto the podcast. We've heard all week about the great craic and everyone the WAC team met in London so why not invite a few of them onto the podcast for some alternative views? We've have several years listening to the same two voices now which, isn't a slight on the lads whom I do enjoy listening to, but it would be interesting to hear some other views and stories. I was actually hoping we'd get some content with Mickey Brennan this week re the game as he was in London and, in fairness to him, he seemed as downbeat as most supporters following the game on the radio.

And Paul Fitz, when you're reading this, why not register and engage with us on here rather than reading and addressing our points on the pod? One of the We Are Meath lads contributes to the Meath thread.

I have contacted them directly and raised the issue re hearing other voices on the podcast. Others have to - well based on what they have told me - and nothing has changed. No point banging your head against a brick wall. I actually previously said on here I have raised it. Do you want me to send a weekly email? I had forgotten your position as Damien Donohoe's bodyguard.

I'm not trying to get him to register so we can criticise his work. He's entitled to his opinion. I just don't see why he regularly brings up points discussed on here yet chooses not to register and interact with us. It's not like we're the raving lunatics you see over on HS yet he once took some of their quotes from that board ahead of a Cavan game and printed them as part of a match preview.

Re ''staying anonmymous'', I've given more information about myself than others like yourself on here who have failed to even confirm what club they are from. If you want to practice what you preach and share your own details, feel free to go ahead and do so.