the last thing the cavan senior team needs is tom smith giving his opinions on what they need

pauliewalnuts (Donegal) - Posts: 78 - 18/06/2008 10:06:00    34165

Donal I wish you well in the next game,stay with us you are our saviour.
Dont be hounded out of office by agroup of knowalls

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 23/06/2008 13:52:15    36487

Next game??? Tom are you for real??? I agree with freedom of speech but find it very hard to agree with nutters!!! P45 time for Mr Keoghan and find a man who can talk to players not alienate them, have a game plan and not Plan A, Plan A and then Plan A if all else fails.

breifneblue (Cavan) - Posts: 58 - 23/06/2008 15:01:25    36567

Well Pauliewalnuts tell me what Donal Keogan did wrong yet. He will not suffer fools litely and he has shown a human side by having the three players who went to the States last year back into the team. Has taken a bunch of poor footballers to win over antrim and ran Armagh very well untill a few junior footballes let him down.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 24/06/2008 00:17:13    36864

Cavan is at alow ebb and it is not the managers fault, we neeed better underage coaching structure that will bring on good footballers , and then get them into senior teams

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 29/06/2008 12:10:02    39591

Breffniblues you think that all Cavans woes will end if Donal Keogan gets his P 45 . well I have covered football for years in Cavan and the same was said about many fine managers that were hounded out of the job

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 06/07/2008 12:52:10    43459

Is Tomsmith related to D.K. I dont know what he means by "covering football in Cavan for many years" because he obviously knows very little about it if he thinks D.K. is a good manager. D.K. has his favourites and other good players suffer as a result.

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 07/07/2008 21:53:09    44290

Cavan Slasher I have followed your posts and you are very negative in your views.
What I have said is that Donal Keogan is the right man for the job.
He i s home grown and as such he, a lot of people feel that he is only in it for the money.
I can say that Donal Keogan is a brilliant manager who has don e wonders with a poor Cavan panel.

What other manager would stay with us when the Chicago 3 situation arose ?

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 08/07/2008 12:20:59    44629

"I can say that Donal Keogan is a brilliant manager who has done wonders with a poor Cavan panel."

Ha ha, that hillarious! He has done wonders? What has he done this year? Got us relegated from the league, beat Antrim in the preliminary round of the championship, and then loose to Armagh.
On another note, does anybody know anything about some of the players leaving the panel? Has anybody been brought in to replace them? It seems a little bit late to still be bringing in lads into the panel.

Brefni Lad (Cavan) - Posts: 107 - 08/07/2008 12:55:22    44683

Tomsmith, your last post makes no sense at all. Cavan football is at an all time low. Players under D.K. leaving the panel againand going on the drink to celebrate a loss. He won one league match and beat a minnow in c/ship. How is he successful ? Please explain. I believe there are better players who feel they wont get a chance under D.K.

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 08/07/2008 18:11:42    45134

P.S. My views if negative reflect the standard of football in Cavan at the moment. Passionate Cavan supporters deserve more. How could you nominate a complete failure for person of the year and what sport have you covered.... darts?

Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 08/07/2008 18:15:10    45137

Paul Cullen Kill Shamrocks now Young Irelanders Philly Donal Keoghan book a ticket a gem is waiting to be unearthed.

Hill Man (Tyrone) - Posts: 147 - 09/07/2008 03:37:51    45257

Cavan Slasher I still say he is the man for the job.
Hill man If that is the sam e Paul Cullen from Kill junior club, I saw him as a minor an d he did not impress mme, but I am sure that Donal Keogan who is a fine judge of talent will take your views on board

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 14/07/2008 00:25:56    47550

Football in Cavan is in need of an entire overhaul in terms of coaching from underage right the way up. Every coach in the county should be singing from the same hymn sheet if we want to produce players who can play to a system, play in away which best exploits their abilities and learn the right habits. Its extremely difficult as a player to take in 10 different opinions on how to play. A players father who trys his hand at management at underage level for years to get the ball kick it as long as you can into the general area of the 'star' player is not good enough anymore. This is just an example, another for instance was the paln of playing dermot mccabe on the edge of the square which didnt work because the ball wasn't played in right. One match playing this tactic is not enough time to hone it. For the last 4-5 years the cavan forwards have been trained to kick low balls into a small 2 man full forward line now that tactic been scrapped. Armaghs style of play took years of work on the training ground, kerry have been playing the same kind of way for 20 years. For example Ive been playing for ten years and at underage level i never heard of any style of play other than hit it long and hard, and then when we get to senior level they wonder why we kick away possession so much!

Larry4ever (Clare) - Posts: 32 - 17/07/2008 01:25:58    50057

What Cavan needs now is a root and branch clean out.
A start would be to install real GAA men in the big GAA schools that supplied the bulk of men to County teams in the past.
As I hav e said look at St Pats St Aidens the numbers comming on to the Cavan team from these have dimished somewhat.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 21/07/2008 15:29:49    52987

Cavan provisional squad 2009: Goalkeepers: James Reilly (Drung), Eoghan Elliot (Cavan Gaels), Brian Coleman (Castlerahan) Defenders: Michael Brides (Oliver Plunkett's), Johnny Crowe (Crosserlough), John McCutcheon (Cootehill), Keith Fannin, Michael Hannon (Drumgoon), Mark McKeever (Gowna), Padraig O'Reilly (Ballinagh), Barry Watters (Drung), Rory Dunne (Redhills), Eamonn Reilly (Cavan Gaels), Paul Brady, Dermot Sheridan (Mullahoran), Ronan Flanagan (Castlerahan), Martin Cahill (Denn), Dane O'Dowd (Drumlane), Enda McCormack, Gary Ferncombe (Drumalee) Midfielders: Dermot McCabe (Gowna), Ciaran Galligan (Drung), Nicholas Walsh (Cavan Gaels), Lorcan Mulvey (Butlersbridge), John Cunningham (Swanlinbar) Forwards: Raymond Galligan (Lacken), John Tierney (Knockbride), David Givney (Mountnugent), Micheál Lyng, Sean Johnston (Cavan Gaels), Gerard Pierson (Gowna), Anton O'Reilly (Ramor Utd), James Clarke (Kilinkere), Ronan O'Reilly (Kildallan), Martin Reilly (Killygarry), Paddy Gumley (Redhills), Jason O'Reilly (Belturbet), Sean Brady, Cian Mackey (Castlerahan), Conor Smith (Cuchullains), Eddie O'Reilly (Mullahoran), Ray Cullivan (Ballyhaise) These are the players that Carr has selected for the 2009 panel. Look at the last line of my first post , what Cavan senior team needs.I stated If super /Divisional teams are the way to go so be it. I now say look at how many new faces that Divisional teams has sprung up. Here to Hogan stand for guiding Tom Carr

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 16/12/2008 23:39:49    165879

I have to say am very disappointed with the midfielders on the panel. This was our main problem last year and their are no changes. How do we expect it to be any better this yr. In my opinion I dont this John Cunningham is no where near county standard. He is not even good enough for a div 1 team. Seen Swad play 3 times this year. Each time he failed to impress. Looked very ordinary. On the other hand Swad had a young lad (think he is McKiernan). He looked to have potential and outshone Cunningham every time. Why not give this lad a chance.

jonjoe46 (Cavan) - Posts: 18 - 17/12/2008 12:19:38    166063

we have some very talented players and are versatile...

gims (Cavan) - Posts: 2 - 17/12/2008 15:48:20    166351

I am delighted that Thomas Carr Donal Keoghan's replacement as Senior Team manager took my advice concerning Divisional/Super teams.
Perhaps the doubters that expressed so much fear/apprehensive about such teams will now see the worth in them.

tomsmith (Cavan) - Posts: 4084 - 17/12/2008 19:20:30    166595

Tom - Tommy Carr was looking for your number last night. He wanted a chat about a few of the Junior players from country teams. He would appreciate the opportunity to have a teleconference with you where you could share your ideas with some of the decision makers in the County Board. He follows all your threads very carefully and would love the opportunity to widen your appeal to County Board members who are not as IT literate as him or indeed yourself.

opa01 (Cavan) - Posts: 540 - 18/12/2008 08:41:39    166865