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I'd say he'd tell that eejit anything to get away from him.

He didn't do that injury.

Re Kiernan, is that not the injury that happened Niall Murray? The update doesn't really make sense because if that severe an injury had happened Oisin Kiernan there'd be no ''probably won't be ready'' about it. He's gone for the year like you said.

I thought Pierson was a shoulder injury and the delay was because he was having surgery on it.

Would be good to see a nice crowd at Croker on Saturday. I know its Division 4 but its a National league title at the end of the day and about time we won a game at headquarters - I know we beat London in 2013 but that was more like a novelty game than anything else.

Pierson was carrying a shoulder injury all through the club championship and then suffered that awful hamstring injury in the replay (when he was really motoring in fairness).

Oisin Kiernan was with the subs on Saturday night and he wasn't looking like a man that had or needed surgery (as suggested in the above post). I have no idea how serious the injury is suggested by Thunderbirds a while back.

Any word on McLoughlin? He definitely took a knock on Saturday night and didn't look great coming off. Hopefully it was just a precaution. He's playing really well since he came back against Sligo.

The injury I heard was a couple months out.

I find the group ones tough going because you feel awkward for lads having to sit there - rather than skip around the two or three guests, he focuses on one for long periods at a time and the other two are left sitting there. In the Cavan Gaels one with Chesty, Masrtin Dunne and Enda King, Chesty started making a cup of team quite nosily while he was asking one of the others some questions - ya can't blame him, he was bored off his trolly I'd say!

Listening to Finbarr & Mickey Hannon, a big ''What if'' for Cavan football was the passing of Eamonn Coleman. It really sounds like the players believed he was building something special.

You would have to wonder given the attitude of the management towards the leagues in recent years how that will go. A lot will depend on the players as well, no doubt some are getting offers to go to America for the summer.

We've won two Ulsters in 50 years and no All Irelands now in 70. I would think whatever silverware is on offer, we should be attempting to win it. This group should not see any competition as being below them. After all, games are games and we need to learn to beat inferior teams. It's getting tiring that the most consistent thing about this group is their inconsistency.

I know the results have been dreadful, I've been to almost all of them. It was more that it wasn't like we didn't treat the qualifiers seriously (ala some league performances) but more that we underperformed.

Cavan_King i think if you want your point raised on the podcast, get yourself on Instagram. I think when it comes to talking points the format is Paul Flitz reads any old guff from their Instagram page regardless of content. There are shows when the "talking points" are "Cavan are cat", followed by "Cavan are the worst ever" and so forth. I suspect if you sent your weekly shopping list to the lads via Instagram it would get read out verbatim on the podcast. ("Interesting talking point here Damien: one sliced pan, milk, eggs, rashers, porridge oats..."). 😀

I know a few people who have sent stuff via email that never gets included so i suspect its more about the medium than the message as the lads have bemoaned the lack of decent talking points in the past. So get yourself on Instagram and hold forth lad! (I'm too old and am barely holding my own on boards.ie)

Speaking of the podcast the frequency of games we have played in Croke park over the last ten years or so versus our success was nicely highlighted this week. Some damning statistic- only one win (versus London in 2013). You would hope Saturday would be a time to start to correct that.

2014 for me was a key one. We lack the killer instinct that day and I really felt it had an impact on our championship and the following year. We were in the ascendency, missed a penalty and started to look like we didn't believe we could win it.

u21s in 2011 I thought tactically we got it wrong for a fair while. We were getting cleaned out of it in the middle and kept true to our kick out strategy that meant Galway kicked about 4/5 scores on the trot and put the game to bed. I thought we were well in that game up until that point.

Fair points about the other games, especially the minor team that lost to Clifford in 2017.

I don’t live in the county so was making a choice between this game and Croke Park - cost of 2 games a factor too

You'd have to hope the troops will rally. I've spoken to a good few people who are going but the 2.30 start on a Saturday isn't great alright. Other years it was later. I distinctly remember the 2007 and 2014 League games in Croker being later Saturday evening games at about 5 or 6. The 2016 Tyrone game was at the centenary celebrations on a Sunday and the 2018 Roscommon game was also early on a Sunday. That said, the 2013 London game was early on a Saturday and got a good crowd but then that was our first Championship game at Croke Park in nearly 20 years.

There's a sizable contingent of Cavan diaspora living in the Dublin and Meath border areas, particularly around Blanchardstown, Clonee and Dunboyne, so hopefully we will see some of those make the short trip in also.

Let's not sugar coat it, Saturday night's attendance, when you factor in a number of things (last home league match, promotion at stake, glorious weather) was very poor. You can make the excuse that a fair few people may have been out of pocket from being in London the weekend before but not only was it a smaller than expected crowd, it was like a wake for the first 10 minutes. You can put that down to the previous week's performance or whatever but we have a fair few fair weather fans and that is for certain.

I don't get the antipathy to a trip to Croker for a league final. The absolute blather you get from some fans about this being "beneath us" is hilariously detached from reality. The vast majority of our fans have grown up with Cavan being a dominant force in Ulster football being a distant memory. We've 2 Ulster titles in 50 years. Also, whilst we have had a fair few trips to HQ in the last 10 years, we also had a very barren run so I take nothing for granted. A trip to Croker to see Cavan play isn't something I will turn my nose up at.

Also, this is as close as I'm getting to a home match so yis can all quit your whinging about the Saturday afternoon throw in being a pain in the hole 😀

It may not be a pain in the hole for you but it is for others me included I won't get to it.