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Lavey extremely poor. Lough very poor shooting at times but then some scoring bursts and very good passages of play ran up a decent score in the end. Solid looking outfit, decent options off the bench, won't fear too many but might struggle up front with regards to lifting the trophy.

Early days, next couple of draws should make things interesting.

Crosserlough have a huge pick compared to Gowna . 1 County title in the last 30 or 40 years is poor from Crosserlough.

I actually didn't see it as a huge surprise. Mullahoran have been waiting to make a mark in a big game and push on, and this was it. Gaels an older team, Mullahoran quite young overall, and this now looks a signature win and should be pushing on now with the youth they have

I said to the lads here that if Mullahoran were in it mid 2nd half that they win it and so it proved. Gaels running on fumes and no ideas end of it, looking for goals from early. Mullahoran county men were the difference. Gunner had a handle on GMac, Cormac very very good, and McKeogh decent too. Being able to bring on Enda to slot over a few points a difference maker too. Big result for them and trajectory the right direction now with youth

Cavan Gaels only had Luke Fortune with the County panel I think so were mostly at full strength during the League. They don't have the punch up front like when Johnston Dunne and Lyng were playing. Mullahoran have some good young players and will be looking to make the quarter finals.

Knockbrides to lose now,Shannon gaels 2nd favourites, Drung won’t be good enough again . Redhills are missing luke McEntee now , a big miss, Kill the same, with mccaffrey back they’d be 2nd favourites

The Gaels very poor today. Hard to judge where Mullahorn are after that. I must also say Ramor where very poor tonight also. Liam Brady went of at half time, hopefully he is ok the next day. James Brady back.

Next week's game against Mullahorn will tell us a lot.

O e serious question Cavan GAA have to answer, is how is Brendan Sweeney still allowed within a mile of a football match.

I agree they get awful abuse but it's also the Gaas job to tell a fella that he is not a good referee. Sweeny has been the talking point of too many games for too long in this county.

You're missing my point. It is from Mullahorans perspective. Gaels have been talked about in top 4, decent in betting, and Mullahoran haven't beaten them in Championship since final win in 06. Mullahoran have had issues beating higher ranked teams. They'll beat teams at their level or below, but not higher which they turned over today. Sometimes takes breaking a glass ceiling which this is. Gaels may be past their best, but still a semi was expected, and if they look old it's only because a young team (who won no group games last year) made them look so. Perspective is all I meant

I don't think anything ontoward here with the selections off that Denn team, just seems a particularly strong group of players for that club. On their own and not amalgamated they would of got to the u15 Division 1 league and cup final last year losing to the Bridge both times afaik and now since the ages reverted to even, won the u16 Division 1 league earlier in year going undefeated in it.

We probably have as many inter county referees as any county, a big drop off after that bar 3/4, some have their own interpretation of the rules depending what humour they’re in. Hard to get referees , so have to take what ya get!

They are finding it hard to get refs at County level too, or those up to the standard. McQuillan was suppose to retire from County referring a few years ago because of his age ,but they extended the age limit.

The u15 squad for this year was picked off a u14 regional competition held last October or so, they joined clubs together and played off on Saturdays and then encouraged the managers who got involved with it, if they would like to then go in with the Academy/development squad which is why you had parents of some players involved in it. Obviously not ideal but a better way of selecting players than off how players played at u13 level a year prior, can be massive development or regression in short space of time with players at this age. There has been numerous posts around the underage structures at club and county level in this thread and I would agree with alot of it, Cavan are not putting their best foot forward. Even that regional comeptition and it flowing into Academy/development squads, was a copy and paste from what Monaghan had been doing from before.

Mullahorn and Ramor terrible terrible game of football. Draw was probably the right result.

I must say after the league Ramor look completely off it. Maybe started to believe the hype but a very tough game next weekend.