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Paul Flynn has obviously done his research:

"Cavan have been very impressive at the back and they have new, young players in Niall Carolan and Sean McEvoy, who has been excellent in midfield, and Gearoid McKiernan and Dara McVeety are a scoring threat up front."

opa01 (Cavan) - Posts: 514 - 11/04/2025 13:39:05    2601510

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Replying To Farneyblueandwhite:  "It's giving rain for the weekend probably suit cavan more than Tyrone"
wasnt raining last year when we beat your mob

breffnibhoy (Cavan) - Posts: 27 - 11/04/2025 14:38:11    2601515

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Replying To ondforty:  "Just saw the team selected and happy that there is continuity with the league. This should help with the spirit on the day. Bit worried about one of our corner backs. When you're coming up against one of the fastest and promising youngsters around at the moment, would you be relying on experience over similar speed and youthfulness?

Anyway, best of luck to them all. We have competed with Tyrone a lot better in recent games compared to some previous capitulations. As a friend said to me recently, we have to beat them at some stage. Hope it's soon."
Cian Reilly will pick up Darren McCurry and presumably Niall Carolan will pick Darragh Canavan.

Bigcall (Cavan) - Posts: 19 - 11/04/2025 23:27:42    2601556

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Replying To Eddie the Exile:  "Going Westmeath x Offaly x Cavan @ 55/1
Will make the weekend interesting."
And will also make the bookies happy… can't see Offaly beating Meath in Navan

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3713 - 12/04/2025 09:44:14    2601563

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Replying To breffnibhoy:  "wasnt raining last year when we beat your mob"
It was raining goals on poor Rory Beggan!!

cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5244 - 13/04/2025 09:31:37    2601663

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If yous go at like a monaghan fixture should be happy coming home 1983 is a long time we won up there in 2022 2018 it's not impossible but then there's a lot of fellas waining now

Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 46 - 13/04/2025 11:57:13    2601679

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If Carlsberg did Sundays..

veterngaa (Monaghan) - Posts: 742 - 13/04/2025 18:03:28    2601714

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Sun didnt shine on cavan today As I said before ulster was always going to be tough to get up for the fact that yous weren't meeting monaghan what a different cavan team when there playing monaghan they lay down today again but you never know yous might get a chance to play monaghan later on in the all ireland series and we will see a completely out of your skins performance from cavan but what does it prove ,a plucky fist pumping this is our day underdog performance and lie down after it 1983 still stands

Farneyblueandwhite (Monaghan) - Posts: 46 - 13/04/2025 18:32:26    2601716

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Don't think we lay down today, maybe a bit. We definitely didn't manage our kickouts. Not having a proper strategy to deal with Morgan's presence on the left. Kept doing the same things with the same results. Think the wind died down a bit during the second half. It certainly helped them in the first half. Anyway, the long wait continues.

ondforty (Cavan) - Posts: 463 - 13/04/2025 22:12:06    2601751

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Not at the races at all… the 5/6 two pointers just took the bad look of the score line.. Our midfield was non existent throughout the match… James Smith was a big loss … Tyrone won pulling up and were never in danger at any time..

ForeverBlue2 (Cavan) - Posts: 3713 - 14/04/2025 07:12:45    2601767

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Novel win for Malachy Clerkin over Cavan.

offtheditch (Cavan) - Posts: 170 - 14/04/2025 07:55:23    2601769

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It was a flat game with with little intensity. Cavan came back into it with a few 2 pointers but a timid enough disp. Same mistakes that were happening during the league, handling, passing, running into tackles.

FoolsGold (Cavan) - Posts: 2871 - 14/04/2025 09:06:14    2601779

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Very disappointing result today, I expected a lot more, but this was worse than any of our league losses. It was really men against boys. Tyrone were superior all over the pitch, their intensity, running off the shoulder, their speed and pace was far better, whereas, again, Cavan with their lateral passing, slow build up and some very poor passing and decision making was painful at times. I really do think that someone, somewhere within the County Board needs to really look at things to see what were are doing wrong, but in my opinion, it goes right back to underage coaching within the County. Year after year, the likes of Tyrone, Derry, Armagh, Donegal and even Monaghan can recycle players year after year, they lose big players, but then replacements come along, whereas in Cavan, its the same old same. I've gone to Cavan Minor & U20 games this year and its the same old rhetoric, once you come up against the big teams, the difference in development and coaching is plain to be seen. The u20's were on the end of one hell of a hiding last Wednesday night against an u20 Derry Team who could arguably beat any of the top club sides in Cavan. From what I've seen, the future of Cavan Football is very very bleak unless something is done very soon.

Pologrounds2025 (Cavan) - Posts: 24 - 14/04/2025 09:45:12    2601781

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Replying To Pologrounds2025:  "Very disappointing result today, I expected a lot more, but this was worse than any of our league losses. It was really men against boys. Tyrone were superior all over the pitch, their intensity, running off the shoulder, their speed and pace was far better, whereas, again, Cavan with their lateral passing, slow build up and some very poor passing and decision making was painful at times. I really do think that someone, somewhere within the County Board needs to really look at things to see what were are doing wrong, but in my opinion, it goes right back to underage coaching within the County. Year after year, the likes of Tyrone, Derry, Armagh, Donegal and even Monaghan can recycle players year after year, they lose big players, but then replacements come along, whereas in Cavan, its the same old same. I've gone to Cavan Minor & U20 games this year and its the same old rhetoric, once you come up against the big teams, the difference in development and coaching is plain to be seen. The u20's were on the end of one hell of a hiding last Wednesday night against an u20 Derry Team who could arguably beat any of the top club sides in Cavan. From what I've seen, the future of Cavan Football is very very bleak unless something is done very soon."
Totally agree, the passing and general slowness of play was disappointing. Also, some of them still thought they were playing in a Junior Championship and could run through players, but got bottled up and loss possession. It was always going to be a very difficult task without 3 of our best players, Lynch, Brady and Smith. However, the squad is so weak when you see what subs came on and made very little impact if any. Dark days ahead when the likes of Faulkner, G Smith and D Mc V hang up the boots.
Also, having no Kickout strategy was crazy. O Rourke looked totally clueless and kept pumping high loopy kickouts up the middle to 2 of the biggest midfielders in the country.

countrytool (Cavan) - Posts: 22 - 14/04/2025 14:45:11    2601866

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Replying To Farneyblueandwhite:  "Sun didnt shine on cavan today As I said before ulster was always going to be tough to get up for the fact that yous weren't meeting monaghan what a different cavan team when there playing monaghan they lay down today again but you never know yous might get a chance to play monaghan later on in the all ireland series and we will see a completely out of your skins performance from cavan but what does it prove ,a plucky fist pumping this is our day underdog performance and lie down after it 1983 still stands"
Will ye get up for Donwgal or bring McManus out of retirement? The dubs of Ulster with home advantage.

FoolsGold (Cavan) - Posts: 2871 - 14/04/2025 18:23:06    2601905

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Some hell of a beating. The slow depressing ride home again. Serious team versus Enigma team. Of course it was Tyrone. Again. No matter how positive I tried to feel, with the U-20s taking a huge defeat, and the rain forecasted for Sunday in Omagh, it had a feeling of inevitability. The first half was a disaster. Tyrone ran around in groups, breaking, and catching everything. The game was dead so early.

Destroyed everywhere. Cavan flapped and blinked, and lost everything. So many players lost ball and turn overs. The sequence of kick outs to the left over and over was a disaster. Kennedy couldn't believe his luck. Same mistake again and again. Kick outs a mess. Not excitement. No buzz in the game. What happened? McVetty, Madden and full back line did their best, but it was so weak. No physical strength. Only one goal chance. Just one for TED. Got to work more. Where was plan B? A lot of rethinking needed.....

Cavan67 (Cavan) - Posts: 21 - 16/04/2025 15:48:06    2602258

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