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The all Irelands were that long ago no one is even alive as a witness
veterngaa (Monaghan) - Posts: 971 - 15/01/2026 21:28:27 2651245 Link 0 |
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Take a break from the Cavan forum for a day or two, Tom. Your obsession with us is getting tedious. We know our national titles are from a bygone era. Better old history than no history, all the same. In the last 30 years, we've won the same number of Ulster titles as your 'supposed' golden generation. You havent won a meaningful senior competition in over a decade. You've nothing to gloat about in past or present.
KingdomofBreifne (Cavan) - Posts: 226 - 17/01/2026 12:40:10 2651440 Link 1 |
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Funny that, I just watched the entire 1947 match vs Kerry only recently, a good friend of my Dad played in the match, Willy Doonan God Rest Him, but thank God I remember him very well and the wonderful stories that he told about the trip to New York! Now, is there anyone in Monaghan that can tell us about their All-Ireland Senior Football successes.....
Pologrounds2025 (Cavan) - Posts: 56 - 22/01/2026 16:59:41 2652553 Link 0 |
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My Cavan team for the summer would be Fiftyball (Cavan) - Posts: 8 - 22/01/2026 18:37:01 2652587 Link 0 |
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A few interesting selections there. Are you Tom in disguise or have you just not being following Cavan recently?
KingdomofBreifne (Cavan) - Posts: 226 - 22/01/2026 21:12:10 2652608 Link 0 |
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I think that was last Summer you're talking about - Ray Galligan retired, Thomas Galligan isnt part of the panel, McEvoy & James Smith aren't playing inter-county this year and Luke Fortune wasnt called back in to the panel.
Pologrounds2025 (Cavan) - Posts: 56 - 23/01/2026 08:56:59 2652644 Link 0 |
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That's a hell of a team in fairness and a very strong bench but unfortunately I don't think alot of those names are on the panel for whatever reason. But I could be wrong, maybe some are training on their own and will be brought back in at some stage. I suppose we'll know more after this weekend. Doughty in particular was one I was excited to see, I thought he'd be a shoe in to be on the panel after the club championship but I don't think he's involved. Casey is another one but I don't think he even made underage county teams which is surprising. We are being completely written off by the bookies to beat Cork. 97Cavans (Cavan) - Posts: 436 - 23/01/2026 11:01:51 2652669 Link 0 |
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Fortune, Smith, McEvoy & the Galligan's arent on the panel, Doughty wasnt named either Cian Reilly & Barry Donnelly are injured. In any case, huge improvements are needed as I believe pre-season didnt go well, beaten by Monaghan & Fermanagh in the McKenna Cup, I believe we lost a few challenge matches too including a defeat to Sligo and a hammering by Divison 3 side Down on a score line of 3-18 to 0-10 pts or thereabouts. So people will need to be patient, its a 3 year project with a view to introducing new players to the panel and incorporating some of the u20 panel also - lessons to be learned here as Donegal have 7 u-20s training with the senior team, 3 of the actually started the McKenna Cup Final last week. Pologrounds2025 (Cavan) - Posts: 56 - 23/01/2026 15:29:56 2652747 Link 0 |
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Wishing Cavan well for the season. Hoping Dermot and his team can bring good experience, and fresh hope and belief to the squad. Yes its going to a tough full of tough games in division 2, but this squad has plenty of experience, and with several expert media outlets backing Cavan for the drop again, this will surely give the team a reason to prove them wrong. Why always RTÉ? This team is full of passionate and proved players. Hoping the mix of old and new stand tall. An Cabhán Abú. Cavan67 (Cavan) - Posts: 32 - 24/01/2026 13:51:39 2652890 Link 0 |
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The problem is you are still living in this area and couple of wins over Monaghan in the Ulster champ. Monaghan have consistently reached the last 4 and 8 of the champ for the last 10-12 years.
veterngaa (Monaghan) - Posts: 971 - 24/01/2026 23:33:27 2652998 Link 0 |
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The young lads are passionate, but is it about football
wishfulthinkin (Cavan) - Posts: 1745 - 25/01/2026 12:34:52 2653048 Link 0 |
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You're spot on there Tom - well apart from 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2024. Consistent hmmmm.
opa01 (Cavan) - Posts: 546 - 25/01/2026 20:38:19 2653169 Link 0 |
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Consistently reached the last 8? Is that the standard you aspire to Tom? A decade without a meaningful title and a 'so called' golden generation coming to the end. You'll be down in div two again next year. After our result today, we'll be there waiting for you. I refuse to take seriously any team that relies on their goalie to get scores from play. There isn't a top level forward in the whole of Monaghan.
KingdomofBreifne (Cavan) - Posts: 226 - 25/01/2026 22:42:44 2653219 Link 0 |
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For a league game in January, that was about as sickening a defeat as it gets yesterday. 97Cavans (Cavan) - Posts: 436 - 26/01/2026 11:39:13 2653283 Link 0 |
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Would have to generally agree. Thought we were on top at midfield. Lots of positives for sure (the Sun being one of them) Half forward line struggled and we are a bit light on the bench. Decisions seemed to go against us towards the end of the game but we got tired too. McVeety up front was a delight
ponger (Cavan) - Posts: 599 - 26/01/2026 12:23:50 2653298 Link 0 |
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It was and still is hard to stomach. Up there with some of the tough comeback losses Limerick 2002, Armagh 2004, Derry 2004, Meath 2007, Kildare 2008 are some that spring to mind. In fairness I can't think of many recently. Hopefully we will get a big crowd into Breffni on Sunday Fiftyball (Cavan) - Posts: 8 - 26/01/2026 23:18:06 2653464 Link 0 |
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Cork are a strange team, anyone can beat them in the league but then they go all out against Kerry in the Munster Championship, we should have left with the 2 points in the bag having been 7 points up at one stage but it wasnt to be. But all is not lost, some great positives to take from it, there was a great spirit and a great attitude and this attitude & spirit needs to be taken into the Meath game on Sunday, its a home game, a local derby, Meath are a very good team and will be hard to break down but home advantage and the good performance against Cork can be a huge plus for Cavan, we need the 2 points as we don't want to be travelling to Tyrone next week with 0 points from 2 games, but you'd be surprised what a win could do for us on Sunday. Pologrounds2025 (Cavan) - Posts: 56 - 27/01/2026 08:51:07 2653478 Link 0 |
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Meath next. They are very much being talked up in the media this week. I wonder if they will live up to the hype. For all their youth and athleticism, I'm not sure how many top players they have. Costello is probably their best player and the Caulfield wing back looks solid, but I would still take Paddy Lynch, McVeety, Niall Carolan over any of them every day of the week 97Cavans (Cavan) - Posts: 436 - 30/01/2026 11:32:22 2654029 Link 0 |
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Meath are an excellent team, still very young but learning, reached an All-Ireland semi-final last year and will be looking to push on, Costello, Jordan Morris, Jack Flynn in midfield (kicked 7 points las week against Derry), James Conlon, Caulfied, Menton, Frayne, they have good footballers all over the field and will be up for it after an impressive win last week, but home advantage might just shade it for Cavan if we play the we played against Cork last week, but it has to be for the full 70 mins. Kickouts are going to be huge, in the first half last week, Cork won 11 from 14 of their own kickouts in the first half, Cavan retained 9 from 13 (19 from 29 overall) whilst Corks overall was 23 from 27 kickouts so improvement needed. The other thing is that when Cavan started to get tired, Cork started to pressure us and we started to make a few little mistakes so this is something we need to improve on also.
Pologrounds2025 (Cavan) - Posts: 56 - 30/01/2026 14:50:32 2654058 Link 0 |
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Plenty of good fight on display today from Cavan. Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 617 - 01/02/2026 18:55:25 2654388 Link 0 |