The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Presume James Smith will be back out around the middle….

Ryan O'Neill back. Still no McVeety. Thought Cormac O'Reilly was worth a shot at starting

Given his record, most probably injured.

Gowna have posted online that him & Conor Madden are missing due to injury. Like you say, I think it’s time for Conor to follow his Killygarry namesake and step away for a while.

Shocking stuff from Cavan. Do we work on kick outs at training at all??

Yip pretty dismal alright

We've no business in the Sam Maguire

Accurate.

A half arsed press on Dublin kickout which I think we won one kick out in whole match. 1st half what the hell were we at on our own kick out? Kick the ball in Fentons direction, unbelievable. Then go man to man with them at the back - insane. Our players also not tracking runs the whole match, goal just after half time was like u12 stuff. truly embarrassing stuff and look at how louth brought something to their game with Dublin in Croke park. Just awful.

Dublin left a lot after them all right. We were terrible on kickouts too. Game went pretty much as I'd feared although maybe the goals came a little easier than I'd have wished. Plus we probably got more joy up front than I was expecting, although given that they never came out of 2nd gear, I'm not sure how much of a positive that was.

The thing I'm probably most disappointed with though is our decision making up front. You're playing Dublin, if you get in on goal at all you have to go for a 3 pointer. And especially if you're 12 points down that's a no f***ing brainer. But no, we fist it wide. Christ on a bike!!!! No wonder we don't score much goals.

We’re in a group with three teams far better than us. Going on Roscommon’s displays against Dublin and Mayo, they’re a good five to six points better than us.

Look, Galligan does have credit in the bank from keeping us in Division 2 and beating Monaghan but the wheels are coming off the wagon quickly.

I don’t know what he can possibly do in two weeks to stop the rot. We’ve too many wides, look open at the back and our conditioning doesn’t look near the standard of Division 1 teams.

I know Galligan’s inexperienced but Eamonn Murray has sounded like he has his head screwed on when I’ve heard him and then Burke is apparently very good so I thought he’d have the right team behind him.

I'm not suggesting we have players that could go out an beat Dublin, we were always going to lose that game. But I do expect that we would have some sort of gameplan to give it our best shot. It's also worrying how the form of Faulkner, Gerrt Smith, Holla and few others has dropped of a cliff in the last 2 games.

Yeah I knew you weren't. They should have been more solid defensively, and at least got to half time with a chance of competing

Cavan were slack with some of the handpassing and kick passing which you can't do against Dublin.

The Ulster Championship is rushed off, and then a 2 week break between the games in All Ireland series. Counties like Cavan and Meath would want the season over, then waiting another 2 weeks.

Was it 4 players who made their championship debut against Dublin? Liam Brady, Mark Magee, Paddy Meade and Darragh Lovett?. It showed the panel was light on experience,.

The part re top coaches for development squads is not going to happen. All available funds are being put into the Polo Grounds and what happens on the pitch is being neglected.

What is the story with Caoimhin McGovern? I know he was sick but I thought he got the all clear and was back playing. For a lad rushed into the team when he was only 17 vs Kildare in 2020, I find it strange he’s still absent.

He was on the panel at the start of the year for the McKenna Cup. I think they cut the panel then for the League.