The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

The fact that some lads are let play with their clubs and Ciaran Brady hasn't played for Arva makes me think he isn't near fit. Surely he would be getting all the game time in that he could seen he has been out for a year.

The JMac podcast very critical of Mickey Graham and Cavan management, particularly Kevin McGourty. Not surprising however because McGourty is from Antrim I believe. Heap the pressure on Graham and Cavan ahead of the game in 3 weeks. Eamon McGee was allowed do similar on the GAA Hour a week or so ago where he went to town on Armagh and described them as having a lack of ambition whilst talking up Donegal and the players they have to come back. For anyone wants to listen and skip the rest of the discussion, Cavan chat happens around the 50 minute mark in.

Ok that makes more sense.

i hope we do see him in the blue again he was on exceptional player.

If he gets back to playing Senior with Crosserlough it wouldn’t be a huge step to then get up to speed for Cavan fitness wise, it might be more that he won’t want to get back on that Intercounty treadmill. What an addition he would be though, great leader and can play in so many positions, playing with his clubmen Smith and Lynch in the forwards might be tempting for him and would transform us so here’s hoping!

And mark Stuart and pierce smith if the latter hadn’t injury problems would probably be comfortable at that level also.

It's very cagey. We've made a lot of unforced errors and are having no joy at kick outs. But those are things that can change. Derry not going to let Lovett get in behind them. We need Madden further up the field. Strangely I think we have more in the tank if we sort out a few things and cut out the sloppiness. Hope I haven't just hexed us.

HON CAVAN!!!!!!!!

Even with my blue-tinted specs on, we were far the better team. Some big performances when it mattered and credit to the lads when we went behind, heads didn't drop but in fact they upped the intensity. Wasn't a complete performance but they've just dumped the two favourites out. And again, blue-tinted specs on but the ref wasn't giving us much.

Yes, we've won nothing yet- but: we've beaten the two top-ranked teams. And we've beaten them in different ways, including one during the game. Massive credit to the players, management and back room team. I loved when the game was in the mix that they kicked on and took the game by the scruff of the neck.

Let us now await the response and retraction from the full on nay-sayers on here from back in February. You know, the lads who were calling things a disgrace and so on....In case they can't remember who they were, I can do a multi-quote roll of honour if needs be :)

Big weekend for Cavan football at the end of April, which is great to see.

I don’t know if I’d agree re the score line flattering Derry. How many wides did both teams have? Some of Derry’s free taking even was desperate.

In the first half we had a lot of unforced errors but Derry often just gave the ball back to us and didn’t punish us.

I was really worried in the period before and after half time but we rode it out. Subs made a difference.

Nervous stuff again at the end. Summed up most of the game - we won the high ball into the square, so did the hard work, but then managed to give it back to Derry but for some reason they kicked a point with the clock gone. Derry decision making very poor throughout.

Yeah apart from Paul Fitz and Mickey Brennan who else is he talking about 😁

Huge win for Cavan last night. Play sloppy at times but we got there in the end. A couple of pedestrian passes across our own 40 could have caught us out.

Thought we were at our best when we moved the ball quickly. The other semi final was very high scoring so will be interesting to see how the final goes in two weeks. Will it be the night before the Corrigan game?

Some big club championship games this weekend. The staggered time of games is good as it means people who enjoy attending games can make a few. There are games at 2, 4 and 6 today for example and then next weekend there are games across all three days starting from Friday evening.

The lads on WAC were talking up the Swad Corlough game but, going on results to date, Corlough look to be in better form than Swad. Maghera have good young players coming through too and will think they can finally grab some results if they keep going.

Got my results mixed up alright. I see Swad won by two in the end. Corlough bottom of the table. Them vs Maghera will be big.

I know it's only league but it's encouraging to see that Maghera are getting competitive at least. No tankings as yet, and surely it's good for them and the other Junior teams if they can put it up to teams and who knows, even manage a win.

Any word on Caoimhin McGovern- is he back playing with Shannon Gaels yet?