The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

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I note Mickey Graham mentioned in one of the interviews that Thursday night will have been the last training session of the year and some of that group won’t be in a Cavan dressing room again. I wonder was that him nodding to a few retirements.

yeah i thought that too, any of the older crew owe us nothing

Hopefully they'll get their day in the sun tomorrow

Team named:

Ray

McLoughlin

Faulkner

Gunner

Oisin Kiernan

Killian Clarke

Conor Brady

J Smith

T Galligan

Gerry

Gearoid

Moynagh

Cian Madden

Lynch

M Reilly

I often wonder did poor Luke Fortune piss in Mickey Grahams Corn Flakes at some point.

Brave prediction I think Westmeath are a decent side I hope you are right.

I agree. Martin has been immense for us and a real class act but the last two years he’s not had much luck with injuries.

Gearoid is playing as well as he’s ever done- there’s years left in him if he wants to keep going. Wouldn’t be surprised if Niall Murray might also step away.

Well lads, I have to say that was as disappointing a result and performance as I've seen in a good while and I think it answers a few questions about the level we are at and that level is Div3/Div2. I've never said a negative word about Mickey Graham but I have to say it's the end of the road for him. I will always be grateful for that ulster in 2020 but the facts are we went from Div 1 to Div 4, we were very poor in Div4 sqeaking a load of games including the final. We were poor against Sligo and got away with it and now we've totally bottled it in the Tailtean final. We put in a performance against Donegal but we can see now that they weren't that great either. I can see a few retirements coming and I think a clear out of management needed too and we try something new next yr. Today was terrible. We put zero pressure on westmeath kickout, we were as open as a gate at the back just like in the semi. Ray and Thomas galligan bottled it and our attack relied on worldly scores from outside the scoring zone from gerry smith and paddy lynch. Change is needed.

Yes we were poor but had got ourselves into a winning position then Cassidy did us again. I haven't saw a replay but live it never looked a sending off, I'd have said a free against was harsh.

It was a shoulder to the chest at full pelt. Some days you get away with a yellow others you don't. Totally stupid from Galligan who I thought was very very poor today

Couple of overly confident/almost arrogant posts above before the game lads! You'd swear ye were playing Division 1 all year! This was always going to be a tight game, Westmeath a division higher in the league and thought we won most of the individual battles with McKiernan, Galligan, Smith, Lynch not getting the better of their men. Westmeath the fitter, more coherant team who played better football after a nervous first 10 minutes. Red card was a red and maybe somewhat of a factor but not like ye were 6 or 7 points up at the time either. Soft enough goal conceded by Westmeath too. Better team won! Iarmhí abú!!

Nothing arrogant about it Sir. Just pointing out your over-confidence on this and other forums I've read during the week. Cavan to win pulling up by 5-6 points seemed to be the general consensus among your fellow County men, which I thought was a little disrespect towards Westmeath, especially as ye struggled for large parts v Sligo in the semi final and played out of Division 4 of the league. Plenty of very decent footballers in that Westmeath team who've played in Leinster finals and higher up the divisions in the Allianz leagues. Also, our goal was certainly not a foul as the rules states that "any player who falls or is knocked to the ground while in possession of the ball may fist or palm the ball away on the ground, and may score by doing so". So no issue there whatsoever. Westmeath were never going to just fall away in the last 15 mins either regardless of the red card, it was tit for tat all game and Westmeath didn't lack for fitness either.

I'm also well entitled to post on any forum I wish. That's what they're for!! Can't have it all your own way, you certainly didn't today!

All the best for 2023!! :)

Of course you are entitled to post on any forum but having a go on another county’s forum to gloat just after they’ve lost is a pretty s**t thing to do. Why don’t you just enjoy a great day for your team on your own forum and be glad you came out the right side of what you rightfully called a tit for tat game. The vast majority of Cavan fans said this would be close so enough of your persecution complex. And it was a soft goal.

What was our sweeper doing today ? Build up play to slow allowing Westmeath to retreat and in fairness to them they got there match ups right and bottled up the scoring zone.

Gerry Smith could have won a medal today for standing solo's and going backwards I expected more from him he should be driving forward but I suppose there wasn't much going on ahead off him alot off the time.