The Official Cavan GAA Discussion thread.

Might be too much movement. Top goes up, bottom goes down. 2 & 3 playoff. Winner of top 2nd/3rd playoff plays loser of bottom 2nd/3rd playoff in a relegation/promotion final.

Six to 1, half a dozen to the other. Personally, I think 2 spots for movement is plenty. If you step up you should earn it and not be out of your class the next year. If you don't top your division or can't best one of the bottom 3 teams from the next tier up, maybe you need to stay where you are for another year and work a bit on your progress.

One thing most of us can agree on though is the current format is crazy. You top your league you deserve promotion, you finish bottom losing all your games and in fact conceding some, a kick in the hole is all you should get.

Yeah hopefully Baconsarnie. Congratulations to the ladies. Few from last year's U16s on that minor team. U16's did it again this year so minor will be very strong again next year. Ran away with Ulster U16 last year so you'd imagine they should be in the sake up again in minor next year. U14s made the A final this year. Some very good footballers can't get a look in to those county panels. Hopefully will translate to senior eventually.

They lost the A final at U14 aet against Galway. I was told 11 of the starting team in minor underage again next year but not sure if true. Maybe the men setup need to swallow their pride and go and see what the cavan lgfa are doing at underage as I think it's unheard of for a county our size (or maybe any county) contesting 3 A finals, winning 2, in one season. Incredible.

Imagine the hysteria if Cavan men got into the u14, u16 and minor ULSTER finals one year- never mind the All Irelands! And to win two of the three is some achievement. The growth of ladies football at a club level in the last few years has been brilliant and fingers crossed this underage succesess continues and feeds into strong intercounty level at adult grade. Is an intermediate all Ireland something we could be hoping for in the near future? And then…

Would be great if this momentum is also met with support from the fans. Good numbers on Saturday in Tullamore (Cavan easily outnumbered Kerry by 2-1 but there was a distance issue there) but would like to think with more success, more people will start attending.

Is there a need for All Ireland at u14? The players are in development Squads but to be aiming for an All Ireland at that age seems a bit soon.

An Intermediate wouldn't really be breaking new ground for us. Senior is where it's at.

Understand the concerns about over-hype but it's not unique to this county. Every good sportsperson in every sport in every walk of life, if they show great potential, are going to be hyped up and talked about. There's no getting round it. If you're not being hyped up you're simply not in the bigger picture. Up to the individual and coaches to manage that to a certain degree but ultimately if you can't handle hype you don't have the temperament for top level sport.

It happens in all Sports of course. Hype can cause some players to slack off and think they have made it others can't handle the attention. The local podcast can get carried away at times with players but they have to discuss something.

That would be great. There should be a culture of hard work they come into, nothing should come easy, but hard work should always be rewarded too regardless of experience. Likewise if standards have dropped, so should the person, regardless of experience.

It was a strong panel in 2016. The likes of Keating was coming in off the bench. Givney was playing full forward. The last year either player featured with Cavan. The likes of Monaghan and Armagh hold on to their players a lot longer.

any word of who is in for the job of running the development squads?

Don’t know why it says Reserve championship on the above!

I definitely remember hearing something about lads "wanting a fresh approach". I also seem to remember that the county board were only willing to give Terry one more year as opposed to something more long-term. I may be completely off the mark there.

Either way, at the time I thought it was one of the most ludicrous decisions ever made. Barring 2014, year on year there was progress and the football we played in 2016 was superb. On a practical basis, Terry had earned the right to have a crack at division one football. In hindsight, maybe what was needed was freshing up the backroom team (which seems to be the norm now). He was a brilliant manager and didn't get the credit he deserved, then or now.