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I'd like to know what people from outside the county looking in think about the Cavan manager's position with Terry Hyland now gone. I don't think there's a manager within the county who stands out and feel an outside manager is needed to bring the team forward. Is it an attractive enough job to bring in a top manager? Who is available? I'd like someone like Pat Gilroy. How far can this current group of players be taken? cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5010 - 03/08/2016 09:11:19 1894476 Link
Replying To cavanman47: "I'd like to know what people from outside the county looking in think about the Cavan manager's position with Terry Hyland now gone. I don't think there's a manager within the county who stands out and feel an outside manager is needed to bring the team forward. Is it an attractive enough job to bring in a top manager? Who is available? I'd like someone like Pat Gilroy. How far can this current group of players be taken?" I think Terry Hyland has left Cavan in a great position. It is certainly a job which will attract plenty of managers. Division 1 football and a team capable of challenging in Ulster. Ok I still think ye are a bit behind Tyrone/Donegal but no reason why cant bridge that gap. It might be a job to interest someone like James Horan maybe? Maybe Malachy O Rourke might fancy new challenge! Douglas_Hyde (Roscommon) - Posts: 90 - 03/08/2016 09:45:57 1894485 Link
Replying To Douglas_Hyde: "I think Terry Hyland has left Cavan in a great position. It is certainly a job which will attract plenty of managers. Division 1 football and a team capable of challenging in Ulster. Ok I still think ye are a bit behind Tyrone/Donegal but no reason why cant bridge that gap. It might be a job to interest someone like James Horan maybe? Maybe Malachy O Rourke might fancy new challenge!" Can't see it appealing to Horan somehow. He is living and working in Mayo and has a young family. Also has a couple of sidelines, radio, tv, newspapers etc. I'd say the expenses would need to be exceptional! Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 03/08/2016 10:35:27 1894525 Link
I would think cavan would be better going for an internal choice. I don't think the names mentioned here would take the job, if anything the job was probably more attractive 12 months ago you are going to be straight away into a battle to stay up and expectations would have risen in the county. ros1 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1211 - 04/08/2016 00:54:03 1895129 Link
Jim or Rory after the weekend! JayP (Dublin) - Posts: 1772 - 04/08/2016 01:47:49 1895134 Link
I think the Cavan job would be a coveted one. No disrespect to Hyland (he is a massive football man and fair play to him for all he has done) but I feel he didn't have the tactical nous to beat the top teams. I feel the players are there. They were very successful at u21 level and with a good push and something new added to the table I think they can win an ulster anyway dstuction (Donegal) - Posts: 1209 - 04/08/2016 08:56:16 1895156 Link
Fergal O'Donnell longballin (Roscommon) - Posts: 91 - 04/08/2016 09:25:43 1895171 Link
Malachy O'Rourke. A man with a proven track record of bringing teams to the next level. He could turn Cavan into Ulster champions. Watch. This. Space. MourneArmy (Down) - Posts: 1787 - 04/08/2016 17:04:47 1895746 Link
andy mcentee surely has to be the choice if he dosent go to meath, he is far from a done deal there. the dubs have given him the option after jim gavin next year dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 685 - 04/08/2016 21:28:36 1895896 Link
Think Cavan paymasters are too tight for McStay liner (Mayo) - Posts: 756 - 04/08/2016 23:39:03 1895961 Link
Call me old fashioned but given that it is still a parochial and amateur game then I think a teams best interests are always better served by a manager from their own county. Do you think for one minute that Kerry would ever be led to a Sam Maguire win with a Cork man at the helm! No they wouldn't and it's not that there isn't a capable Cork man out there that could do it,it's because the Kerry folk would never allow it because they see their own people as being those best placed to inspire and lead. I think the same is true of my own county and others too and I'd want very much for that out look to prevail for many years. seanie_boy (Tyrone) - Posts: 4235 - 05/08/2016 00:20:10 1895976 Link
Could be a job for John Evans or Jack O'Connor Mullerm (Cork) - Posts: 87 - 05/08/2016 00:56:34 1895988 Link
Replying To seanie_boy: "Call me old fashioned but given that it is still a parochial and amateur game then I think a teams best interests are always better served by a manager from their own county. Do you think for one minute that Kerry would ever be led to a Sam Maguire win with a Cork man at the helm! No they wouldn't and it's not that there isn't a capable Cork man out there that could do it,it's because the Kerry folk would never allow it because they see their own people as being those best placed to inspire and lead. I think the same is true of my own county and others too and I'd want very much for that out look to prevail for many years." A fair point but I think we need a streetwise manager who has won Ulster or provincial titles before. We do have some young managers who may put their hand up and deserve an interview but we really need to be ruthless now. This purple patch we had with our younger players is becoming a thing of the past, meaning that we need a man who can give us every chance of an Ulster title. That won't be easy but it has to be our target as a minimum. I'm keen on O'Rourke but not sure if he will commit to Monaghan for another year. Otherwise I'd go after McHugh or Kernan! Reformation (Cavan) - Posts: 356 - 05/08/2016 08:10:34 1896006 Link
Id like to see Colin Kelly of Louth get the job. Met him a few times and he is a great football man and mind he just doesn't have the talent in Louth and a lot of the better players opted out for personal/work reasons. foxes_denn (Cavan) - Posts: 129 - 05/08/2016 09:12:58 1896021 Link
Any update on this - What does the Louth Men think of Kelly as potential heading for Cavan ? foxes_denn (Cavan) - Posts: 129 - 08/08/2016 08:41:09 1897799 Link